Faculty of Science

Growing up in rural Namibia, Aune Angobe had never used a computer before she enrolled at university. And prior to her master’s studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT), she had never travelled south of Windhoek. But nurtured

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) 

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

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’

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

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

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

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

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

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