Faculty of Science

Today, whales are quite an attraction along our coastline. A new study, recently published in Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, Alcheringa, confirms that baleen whales were also part of the biodiversity in the waters along our coast, between 5-7m

The NSTF Awards, in partnership with South32, recognise outstanding contributions to science, engineering and technology (SET) and innovation by researchers and other SET-related professionals. This year, ten UCT researchers have been chosen

Jennifer Thomson, emeritus professor of microbiology in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, has been elected president of the Organisation for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) at the organisation’s 5th G

Professor Kevin Naidoo, the SA Research Chair in Scientific Computing in the Department of Chemistry at UCT, and Dr Jahnshah Ashkani, also from the Department of Chemistry have identified genetic patterns for six common types of cancer - thereby o

Animals caught on camera by amateur photographers and posted on the web could become an important new tool for studying evolution and other ecological questions, researchers from South Africa, including Dr Arjun Amar and his stude

In some animals, the same species can occur in two or more color types, or morphs. New research may help solve the mystery of how this can occur despite the pressures of evolution.

A team of astronomers from UCT and the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) has identified a rare star that exploded around 1 500 years ago. At the time, the star would have outshone all the stars of the Orion constellation, reaching a similar brigh

Skeletal remains of dinosaurs show that they too were once affected by disease.  

Tributes have flowed in for UCT statistician Emeritus Professor Tim Dunne, who died in a car accident last weekend.

Nobody has ever seen one. They intrigue and, on some shady shelves of popular culture, even horrify. Matthew McConaughey escaped from one’s clutches in 2014’s Interstellar, but how much do we actually know about black holes?