Faculty of Science

Rising temperatures and more extreme, unpredictable climate events are making sustainable livelihoods tough for many people living in semi-arid regions of the world. To adapt, local communities, and especially farmers, use different strategies and resp

A group of international researchers, including UCT seismologist Dr Alastair Sloan, have shown that ruptures from earthquakes on thrust faults can jump between fault segments 50 km apart – 10 times farther than previously thought

Postdoctoral Square Kilometre Array (SKA) fellow Tana Joseph knows the value of firing a young imagination. That’s what happened to her at the age of 11 when the Cape Timespublished a series of long-anticipated pictures from

In 2003 Joan Byamugisha had just finished high school and was waiting to start her studies in medicine at the Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, when life threw her the ultimate curveball.

Identification of gene regulatory switches that turn bat genes on and off at crucial times during limb development, with implications for understanding how differences in the size, shape and structure of limbs are generated in mammals in general, inclu

Two postgraduate students from the Department of Physics, Agnes Mbonyiryivuze and Greg Jackson have been selected to attend the 2016 Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting, in Lindau, Germany

The Physics Department at UCT recently acquired a Dilution Fridge, which is officially the coldest place in Africa, with a temperature of 8.190mK. i

Conservationists worry about the impact of agricultural development on Africa's biodiversity. But a recent study shows it isn't necessarily all doom and gloom. Some species, like eagles, can coexist successfully with agricultural development.

A little over a century ago, on 25 November 1915, Albert Einstein published a paper entitled "Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation". It

In a pioneering step towards using plants to produce vaccines against cervical cancer and other viruses, researchers from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at UCT, have generated synthetic human papillomavirus-derived viral particles called