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Gaming to greying hair - young science writers reveal their take on science

Worried about your grey hair -don't pluck says the winner in the Young Science Writers Competition held biennually in South Africa. The key to understanding greying hair says Dheshnie Govender, a PhD student at the University of Cape Town, is stem cells.

The young science writers competition run by the South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement was launched as one its many programmes aimed at inspiring a love of science in the country and is open to South Africans. With a substantial prize, the competition gives scientists aged 20 – 35 at South African higher education institutions and science councils the opportunity to write a 700-word article on any scientific or science-related subject. 

The runner up Rodain Joubert of Rhodes University takes us behind the scenes of computer games to the science, mathematics, physics and graphic design expertise burgeoning globally. 

Cayle Sharrock provides a recipe for turning gas into waste diesel while Ernita van Wyk of the CSIR gives her take on why scientists are in love with science.

To read these articles, visit the SAASTA page. http://www.saasta.ac.za/sciencewriters/winners.shtml 

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Enquiries: sciencewriters@saasta.ac.za; or fax: (012) 320-7803

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