Dr Claire Browning has led an international team of scientists to uncover fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped ...

The University of Cape Town (UCT) community and peers are deeply saddened by the passing of Alderman Owen Kinahan.

Mop-up operations are under way at the University of Cape Town (UCT), after a large-scale wildfire destroyed several historical buildings on UCT’s upper campus on Sunday, 18 April. In light of this, ...

The University of Cape Town’s Council established fellowships for members of permanent academic staff in recognition of original, distinguished academic work that merits special recognition. This year ...

As the effects of climate change continue to cause significant damage across the globe, recent research led by the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) ...

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has made a decisive move in the global education debate on artificial intelligence (AI) by officially adopting a university-wide framework that sets out how AI ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains an under-researched area, despite the large burden of disease it represents. There is currently little data on incidence, outcomes and quality of clinical care ...

A new paper published in the top journal Nature Ecology & Evolution explores how we evolved through a complex process of hybridisation between Neanderthals and ancient humans at multiple points in ...

UCT’s Prof Adam Haupt and UWC’s Assoc Prof Quentin Williams at Haupt’s inaugural lecture in 2019. Photo Brenton Geach. Following the recent launch of the first-ever dictionary of Afrikaaps, Professor ...

In an effort to build safer student communities, the web app Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) has been launched in a bid to detect risky substance use, which ...

Emer Prof William Bond says a lot more research is needed to determine which trees produce embers that become airborne. Photo Je’nine May. Two months after a devastating wildfire ripped through parts ...

The global legal cannabis market is today worth about US$69.78 billion, and this will skyrocket to US$216.76 billion by 2033. But is this boom benefiting indigenous cannabis farmers in southern Africa ...