Faculty of Science

The current Cape drought offers opportunities to fast track integrated, innovative, water cost-effective solutions that can be introduced over the next 12 months.  Dr Kevin Winter from the Department of Environmental & Geograp

Dr David Erwin, senior lecturer from the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, is one of six UCT scholars to receive the 2016 Distinguished Teacher Award.

UCT has partnered with BGM Pharma and the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation to develop GluCAB, a breakthrough in cancer diagnosis and treatment.  Professor Roger Hunter from the Department of Chemistry at UCT is part of the

Dr Jonathan Shock of the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics is one of six UCT scholars who won the 2016 Distinguished Teacher Award.

UCT Faculty of Science student Hannah Simon broke rare ground when her article about the tension between social and environmental justice was published in the South African Journal of Science.

Giant, exceptional gem diamonds, like the Cullinan, grew from liquid metal pockets deep in the Earth's mantle aeons ago. But these unique time capsules have other stories to tell.

14 February 2017 In an extract from his book Human Origins, Associate Professor John Compton from the Department of Geological Sciences, describes how dust and gas from an exploding supernova came together to form o

Three students from the Department of Biological Sciences at UCT will be competing in the Champions of the Flyway, an international charity event held annually in the deserts of southern Israel.

Director of hte Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Professor Peter Ryan has just received his A-rating from the National Research Foundation. (NRF)

Dr Kevin Winter of UCT’s Future Water Institute and the Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, shares the inside story about current and future water shortages in Cape Town.