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Seeing the brain through the eyes
A neurosurgeon at the University of Cape Town is pioneering a way to diagnose a brain condition through patients’ eyes.
Lessons learnt from Cape Town’s water crisis
The unexpected appetites of predators in the Karoo
An extensive study on the eating habits of predators on farms and a nature reserve in the Karoo Desert of South Africa has yielded some surprising findings.
An asthma device for children and the aged
UCT clinician and biomedical engineers collaborated to design an assistant device for metered-dose asthma inhalers to improve ease of use for children and the…
Upgrading the largest experiment on Earth
The ALICE experiment is one of the detectors of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. UCT and South Africa scientists are involved in upgrading this equipment,…
How we put African urbanism on the map
The African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town has gained a global reputation as a leading knowledge centre on global urbanism.
Using palladium to fight cancer
Cancer research: Finding novel therapeutic interventions and developing more targeted approaches to treatment
With big trees comes great responsibility
UCT postgraduate researcher, Witness Kozanayi, investigated how commercialisation of baobab products has affected the trees – as well as the…
