Faculty of Science

The early rains have failed this year amidst a multi-year drought in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia, leaving the countries at risk of a major food crisis. While the region has a track record of similar weather conditions over the past 140 years, is it

Colleagues, family and former students of the much-loved and visionary Professor Gary Marsden gathered to name a meeting room in his honour at the Centre in Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) in th

Roxanne Mohunlal, a Postdoc in the Department of Chemistry at UCT describes the rollercoaster journey of attaining her undergraduate, Masters and PhD degrees in Chemistry at UCT.

At a recent symposium hosted by postgraduates from the Department of Oceanography at the University of Cape Town (UCT), students had the opportunity to showcase their research to their p

Academics from the University of Cape Town (UCT) are part of a research group led by the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics that has observed a black hole ejecting material at close to the speed of light out to some of the largest angul

In a global first, three University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers have visualised – at a resolution close to that of individual atoms – the intact active site of a commercially important biological molecule. Dr Jeremy Woo

The unassuming little sandprawn, invisible to many and best known as bait for fishing, has been cast into the international spotlight by three UCT researchers who discovered its ability to filter coastal water, thus combatting eutrophication – on

President of the International Astronomical Union and Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at Leiden University in the Netherlands, Ewine van Dishoeck, led the ‘tour’ of outer space in a talk entitled, "Building stars,

Joan Byamugisha’s decision to journey from her home in Uganda to pursue her PhD in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cape Town (UCT) caught her family by surprise.  Joan overcame the challenges of being

The 2020 Global Women’s Breakfast, an initiative spearheaded by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, brought together like-minded women from Cape Town’s leading universities for a morning of networking, discussion and deba