Faculty of Science

Professor Judith Sealy and colleagues have recently had a paper published in Scientific Reports which reports on a critically important development in southern African history – the beginnings of farming i

The National Research Foundation (NRF) has approved the funding of R35 million for the Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) which will be built as a guest instrument on the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory&rsq

Dr Rosalie Tostevin, who heads up the Ancient Life and Environments (ALE) Lab in the Department of G

Dr Kevin Winter of the University of Cape Townʼs (UCT) Future Water Institute in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science examines why South Africa is unlikely to achieve the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (

The SKilled, Innovative and Entrepreneurial Scientists (SKIES) project aims to provide PhD candidates and young doctoral researchers in the field of astronomy with a new set of skills integrating open science, social innovation and entrepreneurship top

Associate Professor Gina Ziervogel, a geographer and climate change adaptation expert based in the Faculty of Science at UCT, has been selected to join Homeward Bound, an international leadership programme that encourages women working

Despite mounting concern about the large amounts of plastic litter entering the sea from land-based sources, there is surprisingly little information on how plastic travels from rivers into the sea. Researchers from the University of Cape Town&rsq

Two giant radio galaxies have been discovered with South Africa's powerful MeerKAT telescope. These galaxies are amongst the largest single objects in the universe and are thought to be quite rare.   The discovery has been

While the rapid uptake of wind energy across the globe offers hope of a transition toward sustainability, this same energy can also present a real threat to soaring birds of prey. Now a new tool offers hope of a win-win solution, allowing developers to

As the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic grips South Africa, a multidisciplinary team of researchers from some of the country’s leading universities and civil society have put their heads together to develop a COVID-19 dashboard. The platform