Faculty of Science

Over 80 paddlers joined the Peninsula Paddle last Sunday to celebrate the recent rainfall and refreshment that this brought to the dire state of Cape Town’s waterways.  Dr Kevin Winter, from the Department of Environmental &

The Science Faculty hosted their annual 'Winter School' excursion for first year students, taking them on a trip to Sutherland, to expose them to cutting edge science; to prove them with opportunities to explore how scientists think a

The World Heritage Site of Great Zimbabwe – one of the most iconic and largest archaeological settlements in Africa – offers more than just an interesting insight into how pre-colonial African states and societies functioned. It also provid

Miengah Abrahams, an MSc student in the Department of Geological Sciences, together with Dr Emese Bordy, also from the Department of Geological Sciences, recently published in an international journal of paleobiology, on dinosaur tra

How and to what extend did climate change in the past impact early humans and how did early humans adapt to new environments?  The North Kuruman Project, led by Dr Jayne Wilkins and Dr Benjamin Schoville, fro

Researchers, including Dr Tess Gridley from the Department of Statistical Sciences, at UCT, have used state-of-the-art software to distinguish dolphin calls so clearly that particular species could be identified based solely on their whistles

Addressing food insecurity can improve health, develop a more inclusive economy and increase environmental sustainability, says Premio Daniel Carasso prize winner Dr Jane Battersby-Lennard from the African Ce

Astronomy PhD student Khaled Said - a recipient of the Science Faculty PhD scholarship has just been awarded the Gruber Foundation Fellowship by the International Astronomical Union (IAU)

They’ve been used to scare pigeons away from airfields; now, UCT researchers Alex Atkins, Dr Rob Little, Dr Arjun Amar from the Department of Biological Sciences, have employed local raptor experts and

In order to fight an enemy, you need to understand it. Senior lecturer in the Department of Statistical Sciences, Dr Sheetal Silal, is using mathematical modelling to simulate the spread of disease.