Faculty of Science

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

This year emeritus professor and senior scholar Charles Griffiths celebrates 50 years as a salaried member of staff at the University of Cape Town (UCT). In this time the doyen of marine biology has added more than 300 species to

From 20 to 29 January, leading and upcoming experts in the field of gravitational wave science gathered at the University of Cape Town (UCT) for the 31st Chris Engelbrecht Summer School.  The school was hosted by UCT’s Cosmology and Gra

In southern Africa, dinosaurs and synapsids, a group of animals that includes mammals and their closest fossil relatives, survived in a “land of fire” at the start of an Early Jurassic mass extinction, according to a recently study publishe

Professor Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astrophyics at Leiden University and President of the International Astronomical Union, will present a public lecture entitled "Building stars, planets and the ingredients for life in space&quot

Where fisheries are well managed, fish populations can recover. That is according to new research co-authored by UCT applied mathematician Dr Carryn de Moor.