Faculty of Science

Associate Professor Marcello Vichi, from the Department of Oceanography, will be the Chief Scientist on a cruise to the marginal ice zone of Antarctica, which leaves this week.  He and his students are the sea ice team that is set

Anyone who has spent a bit of time at UCT will know about the (in)famous Red-winged Starlings on campus. These birds have developed a reputation at the university for being sly lunch thieves – many students can tel

A partnership between the University of Cape Town, Stellenbosch Municipality and the Western Cape government is turning an abandoned water treatment facility in Franschhoek into a centre for water reuse research and innovation. The goal of The Water Hu

Some might say that the buzzword for UCT during 2016 was ‘transformation’. The head of the Department of Oceanography, Professor Isabelle Ansorge, heard the call to action and answered with the creation and launch of SEAmes

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