Faculty of Science

It was while setting up sampling and measuring equipment on a bare peanut field near Bultfontein in the Free State in August 2018 that Associate Professor Frank Eckardt got caught in a rolling dust storm. It turned the world around him

South Africa’s higher education system needs to decolonise the discipline of geography. The establishment of the discipline, its histories, disclose its origins as “indubitably imperialist”. The discipline was part of a colonial proje

Human evolution in South Africa has a long hominin fossil history record dating back 3.6 million years, as well as a rich palaeontological record that includes the earliest dinosaurs. But only two of South Africa’s national languages are ful

UCT computer science students have developed and are now upgrading an app for Cape Town-based human milk bank Milk Matters

Some of the world’s leading scientists representing universities in South Africa and the United Kingdom have joined forces. They will help under-resourced communities develop information and communication technology (ICT) interventions geare

The British Ecological Society’s (BES) Marsh Award for Climate Change Research&nbs

The Science Faculty and the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at UCT mourns the loss of Professor Hans-Peter Kunzi, a highly respected international researcher with an A-rating.

University of Cape Town (UCT) PhD students Precious Chiwara-Maenzanise and Rivoningo Khosa are undertaking groundbreaking work in the palaeosciences. As the Human Evolution Research Institute’s (HERI) inaugural 2

In an effort to collect spatially representative water samples from across South Africa, researchers at UCT recently enlisted the help of an unconventional project partner: the South African Post Office.

Dr John Woodland, from the Department of Chemistry celebrates the fifth birthday of VOX musical group with a hauntingly beautifully choreographed piece of music combined with beautiful images from Sutherland. Music, Chemistry and Astro