Faculty of Science

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

Astronomers speculate that a rotating, bar-shaped structure that swept through the central regions of our galaxy long ago may be the reason that no young stars have been born there for hundreds of millions of years. Another possibility is that a massiv

Researchers from UCT’s Drug Discovery and Development Centre, H3D, have identified a potent new anti-malarial development candidate with potential for both treatment and prevention of malaria.

Emeritus Professor George Ellis, from the Department of Mathematics & Applied Mathematics has just received an honorary doctorate for WITS (honouring his work in Cosmology and Physics) and will also receive one from the University

Dr Kevin Winter, from the Department of Environmental & Geographical Science at UCT launched the Peninsula Paddle in 2010, a guided annual 'study' tour of the city's waterways from Muizenberg to Milnerton on the Bl

The Sousa Basin in Northeaster Brazil is known worldwide for its abundant dinosaur footprints.  This week a team of Brazilian palaeontologists, led by Aline M. Ghilardi, from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, including Professor Anu