Faculty of Science

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.

Dr Heather Marco from the Department of Biological Sciences at UCT, has been re-elected as president of AGNES (the African-German Network of Excellence in Science)

The work of a PhD student from UCT’s Department of Chemistry has been published in the journal Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.

A centuries-long war has been ongoing in the Western Cape: it is a battle between humans and baboons over territory and food; just one example of conflict between people and wildlife on our crowded planet.

A team of UCT ecologists has used repeat photography to study the decline of the critically endangered Clanwilliam cedar. Their findings, published last month, suggest that climate change and more frequent fires are threatening the survival of thi