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Professor Gina Ziervogel’s delivered her inaugural lecture titled: “Water under or over the bridge: Governing trade-offs in climate adaption”. The audience included her loved ones, colleagues and friends, as well as her students.

UCT’s Department of Molecular and Cell Biology recently hosted Grade 12 science learners for an immersive job-shadowing programme.

The list of 2025/2026 Science Oscars winners is in, and one University of Cape Town (UCT) academic and a research group made the cut.

Researchers have discovered that the breeding distribution of brown skuas has shifted in the opposite direction.

UCT led researchers decoded how cancer rewires the MUC1 protein’s sugar coating to evade immune detection, paving the way for new cancer vaccines, biomarkers and precision therapies.

IDIA celebrated its tenth anniversary, South Africa has moved on from being a mere host of international infrastructure to becoming a global leader in the data-driven discovery of the universe.

False Bay’s waters and sediments contain a cocktail of pharmaceuticals, pesticides and metals linked to urban development, wastewater discharges and harbour activities, according to a new study led by researchers from UCT.

Research led by the Centre for Statistics in Ecology, Environment and Conservation, revealed a recent increase in sightings of the world’s two largest whale species in the southeastern Atlantic.

Professor Silal addressed a full lecture theatre and extended online audience, which spanned academics from Cape Town to Oxford, public health officials, postgraduate students, family and loved ones.

THE SCIENCE FACULTY INVITES YOU TO THE 2026 SEMINAR SERIES - The Culture of Response: Coordination, Governance, and Disaster Management by Ms Lavenia Nicholson and Dr Phindile Sabela-Rikhotso at 13:00 SAST on Thursday, 28 May 2026.

A new artificial intelligence (AI) language model trained specifically on South Africa’s 11 official written languages will be presented at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) in Mallorca, Spain.