Initiated two years ago as a pilot program, an effort to bring undergraduate Indigenous women into physics has blossomed into a steady source of physics education and opportunities.
The Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory (PAUL) will be the first dedicated and permanent underground laboratory in Africa, and the second one in the southern hemisphere.
Indirectly testing this theory, motivated by the mysterious mass of the Higgs boson, could be within reach for experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.