Faculty of Science

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-

More than 7500 students from across the Western Cape converged on UCT Upper campus to take part in UCT's annual Mathematics Competition.

PhD Student Chao Mbogo is one of 200 young researchers who has been invited to attend the prestigious Heidelberg Laureate forum.

Congratulations to 3 Computer Science PhD students on winning Schlumberger Foundation Fellowship awards.

As devastating as the ongoing fires around the Peninsula have been to property and tracts of nature reserve, regular fires every 15 years are critical to

The fires that have been ravaging the Cape Peninsula have raised concerns about the survival of local animal populations - especially the area's already beleaguered baboons.  Professor Justin O'Riain, head of UCT's Baboon Resarch Unit,

Using aerospace technology to look at dwindlig bearded vulture population from afar