Faculty of Science

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

Dr Frank Eckardt, from the Department of Environmental & Geographical Science is part of a team of scientists across sub-Saharan Africa who will be gathering and analysing soil samples to address soil conservation and food sec

Associate Professor David Jacobs reveals evolution’s mysteries and untangles some common misconceptions about evolution through the sonar scopes of nature’s “chimera” – bats.

Professor Susan Parnell, from the Department of Environmental & Geographical Science is one of the authors of a recent paper in Nature, which states that the agenda of the United Nations conference on urban sustainability

Professor Judith Sealy and her post-doc Ashley Coutu from the Department of Archaeology, together with Dr Petrus le Roux from the Department of Geological Sciences have recently published a paper&

Dr Benjamin Schoville, a post-doc in the Department of Archaeology has just had a paper published in PLOS One that examines whether our earliest human ancestors were using stone tipped spears between 500,000 and 50,000 years ago.