Soapbox Science takes place on Saturday 25th November from 12h00 to 15h00 at the Clock Tower, V& A Waterfront. This event promotes the visibility and boosts career prospects of female and non-binary scientists.

The Water Hub, directed by Dr Kevin Winter, won a gold Eco-Logic award for the research work they do in Franschhoek.

Associate Professor Mark Blumenthal and his team from the NanoElectronics Research Centre in the Department of Physics at UCT have had a major breakthrough in their research paper published recently in the journal EPJ Quantum Tecnology

In a display of international cooperation and astronomical exploration, the UCT Department of Astronomy, hosted a delegation from the Netherlands government and shared their insights on the boundless possibilities of astronomy research.

Prof Kelly Chibale was announced as a fellow of the Schmidt Futures AI2050 Senior Fellows who will pursue bold and interdisciplinary research in artificial intelligence (AI) to help chart the development of

In 2018 a group of human evolution researchers decided to do things differently and created a new human evolution exhibit that opened in September 2023 at Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town.

Dr Wade Petersen, from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Department of Chemistry in the Faculty of Science, has been announced as the winner of the Royal Society’s Rising Star Africa Prize for 2023.

Professor Kelly Chibale, who holds the Neville Isdell Chair in African-centric Drug Discovery and Development, and director of the Holistic Drug Discovery and Development Centre at UCT, has been awarded the Royal Society Africa Prize 2023

Professor Daniel Pisano, UCT’s new DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Extragalactic Multi-wavelength Astronomy, is passionate about paying forward his skills, expertise and his international contacts,to support the journeys of future stargazers.

UCT's Professor Chris Reason, Department of Oceanography, has been announced as one of the international Royal Meteorological Society award winners for 2022 in the Geoscience Data Journal (GDJ) Editors’ Award division.

"The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) is in extremely capable hands,” said Professor Mark New of his successor, Associate Professor Gina Ziervogel, who recently took the helm as the director of the UCT flagship

In gathering the botanical data for his PhD, UCT's Brian du Preez clocked up some impressive numbers scouring the Greater Cape Floristic Region’s (GCFR) remote regions: hundreds of kilometres on foot in mountains and kloofs, and by car.