Faculty of Science

On Earth Day on 22 April, University of Cape Town (UCT) ornithologists Professor Peter Ryan and PhD candidate Jessleena Suri talk about resurgent birdlife in urban and suburban areas in the wake of the nationwide lockd

The FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology on UCT's Upper Campus, which is home to the largest centre for ornithological research in the Southern Hemisphere is keeping collegiality between staff and students going through lockdown with d

Former South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) chairholder and current Honorary Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Professor Erwin de Blok has been awarded a highly sought-after European Research Coun

UCT News consulted with Professor Ed Rybicki, director of the Biopharming Research Unit in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology to gain a measure of clarity about a possible COVID-19 vaccine.

Read an interview with Professor Ed Rybicki, director of the Biopharming Research Unit in UCT's Department of Molecular & Cell Biology to get some facts straight about COVID-19

From village boy in Murang’a County, Kenya, to computer engineering graduate (cum laude), Willie Macharia learnt early that life is not simple. He still has the boarding pass for the flight that brought him from Nairobi to the Un

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has joined the newly established International Universities Climate Alliance (‘Climate Alliance’), which aims to help communicate research insights on the most effective means to meet the unprecedented glob

A study by a trio of researchers and published in Nature has revealed that the disruption of biodiversity from climate change on land and in the oceans will be abrupt and could be much sooner than we had expected.  Dr Chri

An international team of researchers, including geologists Dr Robyn Pickering and Dr Tara Edwards, from the University of Cape Town (UCT), has reconstructed – from more than 150 fragments – the earliest kno

At age nine Alexios Vicatos repaired his first clock. By his early teens he was restoring antique timepieces for local antiquarians. His love of things mechanical recently saw him rehabilitate and perform on the City Hall’s caril