Faculty of Science

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

Professor Peter Dunsby, from the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics was recently honoured at the National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Awards

A 'celebrity' eagle from the Kruger National Park, that starred in a British wildlife television series, "Fierce", has been killed by subsistence hunters in Mozambique.

SEAmester - South Africa's Class Afloat which aims to introduce marine science as an applied and cross-disciplinary field to students, sets sail the polar research vessel SA Agulhas, on 5th July 2016 with 41 students selected fro

For 15 years over 10 000 free-drifting Argo robotic floats have gathered essential data on the salinity and temperatures of the world’s oceans, vital to new understandings of climate change.  Professor Isabelle Ansorge 

Research by scientists from UCT and Swansea University, has shown how canny baboons living on the edge of Cape Town are occasionally able to get around the management strategies put in place ot prevent them raiding the urban environment.