Reading. It’s a building block toward learning and understanding. But not enough young people are trying to learn how to read. New federal testing data shows that reading scores of teens in the U.S.

Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DST-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor of Genetics, University of Pretoria Brenda Wingfield receives funding from NRF and DST.

THE onslaught of words begins the moment you wake up. Even before dressing, you may check your emails, peruse the morning news online, respond to texts and skim your Twitter feed. Then, at work, there ...