Faculty of Science

The Science Faculty congratulates all of their researchers who were honoured at the 2016 National Research Foundation (NRF) Awards. 

In a nutshell, says UCT researcher from the Department of Biological Sciences, Saachi Sadchatheeswaran, her doctoral research is about “alien marine cities”.

The origin and spread of savannas is one of the great mysteries of the earth's ecological histories.  A new study, recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), involving Emeritus Professor William

The Eskom Cape Town Expo for Young Scientists, hosted by UCT from 29 to 31 August, showcased 487 projects by 739 scholars from 52 schools – the cream of the Western Cape’s junior and senior scientists. The best projects will go to the

The SA Chemical Institute (SACI) recently announced several awards and the Department of Chemistry at UCT featured strongly at these awards.

Professor Kelly Chibale, from the Department of Chemistry has just been awarded the prestigious Cheney Visiting Fellowship to the World-leading Astbury Centre at the University of Leeds in the UK.

They’re almost as old as the planet itself – and they have secrets to share

By following honeyguides, a species of bird, people in Africa are able to locate bees’ nests to harvest honey. Research now reveals that humans use special calls to solicit the help of honeyguides and that honeyguides actively recruit appropriate

Xolisile Thusini is a particle physicist whose research focuses on the discovery of the Higgs boson and its properties.

Landscapes across southern Africa are changing at an alarming rate because of changes in land use and climate. Repeat photography (photographing the same place over time) of historical landscapes has long been used as a tool to document these changes a