Faculty of Science

Dr Ben Schoville’s PLOS One paper describes a new model to determine how our Middle Stone Age ancestors used ubiquitous stone points to extract resources from the landscape.

AXA Research Fund has awarded its first research chair in Africa to Professor Mark New, Director of the African Climate and Development Initiative.  

An international team of astronomers, led by  Professor Renée C Kraan-Korteweg, has discovered a previously unknown major concentration of galaxies in the constellation Vela, which they have dubbed the Vela supercluster.

Dr Diego Rubiera-Garcia argues that Einstein’s theory of general relativity might need some rethinking to match up to current observations in cosmology.

A new study suggests that losing the world’s kelp forests may indicate that our environment has finally “tipped over the edge of the precipice”.

UCT’s Sea Ice Research Group spent two chilly July weeks collecting and studying ice from one of the coldest places in Antarctica. Associate Professors Marcello Vichi and Isabelle Ansorge and four postgraduate students from

The rapid advance in scientific knowledge has created such vast and complex quantities of information, or big data, that scientists and researchers have had to develop new infrastructure, tools and approaches to capture, analyse and share it.

A new application in the Abalobi suite of apps, which is revolutionising artisanal fisheries, will bring small-scale fishers and buyers together in a virtual marketplace.  Dr Serge Raemaekers from the Department of Environmental & Geographical

Three UCT researchers were honoured at the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Scientific Merit Awards 2016 in Cape Town last week. The awards, which are in their

Using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space telescope and other facilities, an international team of scientists, including Dr Vanessa Mc Bride and Dr Lee Townsend from UCT’s Department of Astronomy, h