Faculty of Science

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

Associate Professor Rebecca Ackermann of the Dept of Archaeology  at UCT recently played an important role internationally in investigating allegations of sexual misconduct directed towards female students and research assistants

Large earthquakes cause other quakes near and far. Analyses of quakes in Pakistan and Chile suggest that such triggering can occur almost instantaneously, making triggered events hard to detect, and potentially enhancing the associated hazards. 

The Science Faculty mourns the passing of Mr Goodman Mlungu, a departmental assistant in the Department of Chemistry, who worked at UCT for 31 years,