Faculty of Science

Young African scientists face persistent barriers which cause them to leave their own countries, and even

Dr Sarah Fawcett, a researcher and lecturer at UCT’s Department of Oceanography, has been elected to the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS), an organisation that aims to be the voice of the country’s young scien

More than 650 pupils from 45 schools throughout the Peninsula participated in the regional finals of the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists, held at the UCT Sports Centre over the weekend.  Science Faculty staff and studentswere involved in organisin

A new study just published in Nature, by UCT Geologist Professor Steve Richardson and his international peers has revealed that blue diamonds are a 'superdeep' type of diamond that originate as much as four times deepe

We mourn the loss of Professor Bongani Mayosi.  He was a kind, inspiring man and a brilliant scholar who made seminal contributions to the study of heart disease.  His passion for research and his commitment to the University will never be fo

An agreement between CERN and the Department of Science and Technology has put in writing that South Africa is officially a member of the collaboration and involved with upgrades to two of the detectors used in the ALICE experiment,” explains

The MeerKAT telescope, the first phase of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope in South Africa, will allow astronomers to understand how galaxies form and evolve, study dark matter, black holes and understand some of the most violent explosions t

Renowned mathematician Professor Daya Reddy has been elected as the first president of the newly formed International Science Council (ISC).

A team from the Department of Physics put on a spectacular science show at the launch of the translation into several South African languages of a children's book, George's Secret Key to the Universe, written by Lucy Hawking and h

A two year project to repeat a famous bird survey project across 20 000km of Botswana has confirmed researchers' fears:  many birds of prey are fast disappearing.  Reported sightings of iconic eagle and vulture species have declined by as