Faculty of Science

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

University of Cape Town (UCT) marine biologist Dr Jannes Landschoff describes it as “an intriguing little animal” that lives like a hermit crab but isn’t a crab. Unlike its fellows, this tiny, shrimp-like tanaid also

Liezl Maritz, who is graduating with a Master's degree in Biological Sciences, worked in isolation on the coast of the southern Namib desert and had black-backed jackals as her companions observing her doing her research. She was d

Dr Charlene Janion-Scheepers, from the Department of Biological Sciences, looks at how soils are vital for agriculture, biodiversity and clean water and describes how this below-ground world is often overlooked. She examines

Newly published research by an all-women team from the University of Cape Town shows how one of the most ancient groups of birds (from the time of the dinosaurs) was able to detect minute mechanical vibrations in the soil using their beaks. P

Dr Margaret Blackie, from Stellenbosch University, presented the Department of Chemistry Transformation Committee lecture, with a talk entitled, "The opportunity presented by the call for decolonization ".

Hundreds of millions of years ago something crashed into the planet Mars with enough force to eject pieces of Martian rock into space. Some of these pieces of rock made their way to Earth where they entered our atmosphere as meteors. A precious few lan