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UCT shares climate-change expertise in Africa
UCT is helping countries in sub-Saharan Africa get to grips with climate change, and Windhoek and Lusaka already have tangible results to show for it.
19 Feb 2019
Art that explains agroecology
Art and research intersect at an ‘Insecthibition’ where insects tell the story of agroecology: the application of ecological processes to agriculture.
19 Feb 2019
New automated shark-spotting project
UCT is helping to develop a low-cost, automated shark-detection system for Cape Town’s beaches.
18 Feb 2019
Breaking down silos to optimise health care
Medical and Health Humanities in Africa unites everyone from academics to creative artists in this rapidly growing field that seeks more nuanced answers to health concerns.
15 Feb 2019
Republished
New dinosaur discovered in Mongolia
Scientists have found new species of oviraptorosaur in Mongolia. The incomplete skeleton was likely of a baby dinosaur.
15 Feb 2019
Fynbos, fire and the future
Fire is essential for fynbos, with many species dependent on it for procreation. But what is the likely impact in the climate change scenario?
12 Feb 2019
How a rock and gold-plated watch swayed a research career
UCT Professor Aubrey Mainza’s notable and developing research career has focused on improving the efficiency mining operations around the world.
12 Feb 2019
Five winners of the Advancing womxn awards
UCT is making strides in the advancement of women by awarding five substantial grants to women researchers over the next five years.
11 Feb 2019
UCT signs agreement with leading French geological institute
UCT and the French Geological Survey public institution, BRGM, are working together to promote research into the sustainable management of natural resources.
07 Feb 2019
Achieving social justice for South Africa’s children
The 13th edition of the SA Child Gauge is a crucial resource in the struggle to secure the rights of the country’s children.
06 Feb 2019
Shark-eating killer whales in Cape Town’s waters
The ocean food web in Cape Town’s False Bay began to change in 2015 with the appearance of shark-eating killer whales.
05 Feb 2019
Republished
Queen of Sweden visits parenting project
Sweden’s Queen Silvia visited the Touwsranten community and the Seven Passes Initiative, which is implementing parenting programmes in the area co-developed by UCT.
01 Feb 2019
Small plastic pollution on SA beaches
A UCT study has found that most of the plastic polluting South Africa's beaches and coastal waters has not drifted here from distant nations.
27 Feb 2018
SAICE award for urine research project
Graduate Tinashe Chipako has won the 2018 South African Institution of Civil Engineering National Investigative Project Showdown for his research project on waterless urinals at UCT.
20 Feb 2018
How the placenta can shed light on HIV mothers and their babies
In many parts of the world, the human placenta (the after birth) is discarded once a baby is born and considered waste. The focus is on the child and the new mother.
20 Feb 2018
Republished
The unexpected appetites of predators in the Karoo
An extensive study on the eating habits of predators on farms and a reserve in the Karoo has yielded some surprising findings.
20 Feb 2018
Dual desalination could increase water yield
Reverse osmosis followed by eutectic freeze crystallisation, a process used to treat mine waste water, could boost fresh water yields during seawater desalination finds research by a chemical engineering student.
16 Feb 2018
Grant drives genomic research
Professor Ambroise Wonkam has been awarded major grant funding that will help drive research into the genetics of non-syndromic hearing loss in Africans.
14 Feb 2018
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