National accolade for senior UCT water researcher
The Water Institute of South Africa (WISA) has awarded a prestigious Senior Fellow Membership to Dr Kirsty Carden, interim director of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT)
UCT part of UN‑endorsed network to boost sustainable ocean cities
The Ocean Cities (OC‑NET) Programme, in which the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Marine and Antarctic Research Centre for Innovation and Sustainability (MARIS, formerly M
Student’s start-up prioritises sneakers, soap and art
University of Cape Town (UCT) student Anele Siyotula is a maths whizz and creative genius, and he draws on these and other skills for his start-up, 1Stop Tekkie Wash. His love for colour means that he breathes life into students’
New study suggests falcons have natural ‘eye makeup’ to improve hunting ability
Dark ‘eyeliner’ feathers of peregrine falcons act as sun shields to improve the birds’ hunting ability, a new scientific study suggests. Scientists have long speculated that falcons’ eye markings improve their ability
World Environment Day: oceanographer’s inland-to-sea journey
Master’s graduand Liisa Shangheta’s first chemical experiment was conducted covertly, under her bed at boarding school in Grootfontein, Namibia. Shangheta was only 11, but remembers hustling to elicit a sin
Assoc Prof Moodley to join ICA #4 on Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence
The Intercontinental Academia (ICA) has chosen Associate Professor Deshen Moodley from the Department of Computer Scienceat UCT, as a fellow for the 4th edition of ICA. The ICA creates a global network of fut
A safari across the African savannah and into the Cape
As the continent prepares to draw the curtain on Africa Month, the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Professor Muthama Muasya took to the virtual stage to present an inaugural lecture fitting for the time, and suited to the contine
Orchid sexually exploits male beetles — a world-first from Africa
Dr Callan Cohen, a research associate of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, has discovered a world pollination fi
Science and the making of My Octopus Teacher
The news that My Octopus Teacher had won an Oscar for the Best Documentary at the 93rd Academy Awards was met with elation in the Cape Peninsula’s Deep South where naturalist, film-maker and co-star Craig Foster lives and freed
Train researchers for big science in oceanography
Oceanography’s first woman head of department Professor Isabelle Ansorge delivered her inaugural lecture on 14 April. Titled “Teaching the many (50) shades of blue – while the world is changing its shade&rdq