Faculty of Science

Scientists have discovered a bed of rhodoliths – free-living, coral-like structures that offer food, shelter and nursery space for marine animals – in the newly proclaimed Amathole Offshore Marine Protected Area off South Africa’s eas

Throughout their range leopards are in rapid decline, having disappeared from North Africa, much of the Middle East and Asia. Declines have been so severe that the species is now consi

Four young researchers from the Faculty of Science at the University of Cape Town (UCT), have been selected to form part of the 2020 cohort of Future Leaders – African Independent Research (FLAIR) fellows. These fellowships are awarded to talente

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Professor Kelly Chibale, founder and director of Africa’s first integrated drug discovery and development centre, H3D, has been chosen as one of the world’s top 60 inspirational lea

On Earth Day on 22 April, University of Cape Town (UCT) ornithologists Professor Peter Ryan and PhD candidate Jessleena Suri talk about resurgent birdlife in urban and suburban areas in the wake of the nationwide lockd

The FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology on UCT's Upper Campus, which is home to the largest centre for ornithological research in the Southern Hemisphere is keeping collegiality between staff and students going through lockdown with d

Former South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) chairholder and current Honorary Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Professor Erwin de Blok has been awarded a highly sought-after European Research Coun

UCT News consulted with Professor Ed Rybicki, director of the Biopharming Research Unit in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology to gain a measure of clarity about a possible COVID-19 vaccine.

Read an interview with Professor Ed Rybicki, director of the Biopharming Research Unit in UCT's Department of Molecular & Cell Biology to get some facts straight about COVID-19

From village boy in Murang’a County, Kenya, to computer engineering graduate (cum laude), Willie Macharia learnt early that life is not simple. He still has the boarding pass for the flight that brought him from Nairobi to the Un