Faculty of Science

Dr Björn Backeberg, Oceanographic researcher and co-

Paleoanthropolgist Lauren Schroder, a PhD student in the Department of Archaeology at UCT was recently selected as one of the Mail & Guardian's 200 young South African's for 2015.

At the Malaria Research-Investing in Elimination meeting organised by the Medical Research Council in Durban this week, it emerged that mathematical modelling could be used in the fight against malaria in South Africa.

'Nothing in Jurassic World is natural!' proclaims Henry Wu, the chief scientist in Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic World. And to complicate matters even further, he explains how even the DNA used to 'create' the animals is not a

Jess Dawson, a PhD student from the Department of Biological Sciences is studying the impact of hippo poo on the St Lucia food web and among other skills, she has had to learn how to catch a crocodile and how not to unsettle a hippopotamus.

After two years of negotiation between scientists and government ministers, the polar research vessel SA Agulhas II is heading into the Southern Ocean where a University of Cape Town oceanography team has some unfinished business. Lead by oce

New research by UCT Chemistry Department's Dr Catherine Kaschula and her research team, has established how a compound found in the crushed cloves of garlic, know as ajoene, killed cancer cells.  Garlic, which has long been recognised for its

Emeritus Professor John Field from the Department of Oceanography at UCT, who is 

Professor Ed Rybicki from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at UCT, and Director of the Biopharming Research Unit (BRU) received the first Deputy Vice-Chancellor's Award for Achievement in Innovation.  

The human diet during the Magdalenian phase of Europe's Upper Paleolithic is poorly known.  A study by Robert Power, a PhD candidate at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, co-supervised by UCT's Dr Domingo Salazar-