Faculty of Science

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.

Lutete Khonde, from UCT’s Department of Chemistry, has created a simpler, faster and cheaper way of synthesizing a super antioxidant in the lab.

Dr Petrus le Roux from the Department of Geological Sciences, has verified that a molar found in the Marquesas Islands probably belonged to artist Paul Gauguin.

Professor Kevin Naidoo, from UCT’s Scientific Computing Research Unit, is using computational chemistry to clarify the role that carbohydrates play in identifying types of cancer.

Today 193 countries will sign a landmark declaration agreeing to combat the biggest risk to modern medicine – antimicrobial resistance ­­– at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

A recent media campaign has highlighted the many ways in which South Africa relies on plastics. One part of the campaign is a print advert