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Dr Rosalie Tostevin, who heads up the Ancient Life and Environments (ALE) Lab in the Department of Geological Sciences, is the latest University of Cape Town (UCT) researcher to be awarded a prestigious P-rating from the National Research…

Professor Deon Bezuidenhout of the University of Cape Town (UCT) has been elected to join the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows, which comprises the top 2% of the medical and biological…

Who can forget that first lockdown announcement in March 2020? For many, it meant the dining room would be converted into an office space; for others (depending on the sector), the shutdown meant little to no work at all. But for a select…

The University of Sheffield AMRC and Nuclear AMRC are supporting a major new project to decarbonise the industrial cluster around the Humber and help UK manufacturers win work in emerging low-carbon sectors including hydrogen fuels and…

Cutting-edge 3D scanners have been put to the test by researchers from the University of Southampton and partners Exceed Worldwide to help increase the quality and quantity of prosthetics services around the world.The study carried out…

Health and medicine, Science and technology, Coronavirus, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Medical and Health SciencesAcute critical illness can result from many different initiating causes such as severe infection, trauma or inflammation…

Alchemy, which attempted to turn cheap metals such as lead and copper into gold, has not yet succeeded. However, with the development of alloys in which two or three auxiliary elements are mixed with the best elements of the times, modern…

A new study in the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is linking climate change to yet another environmental impact – longer lasting “dead zones” In lakes.According to the study, warm summer weather is the main driver behind…

Around 450 students from Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick are supporting the region’s Covid-19 vaccination effortsFor nearly a year, Warwick’s medical students have been using their skills and passion to assist during…

Thanks to their expertise in cell micromanipulation, Julien Husson and his team were able to demonstrate that the mechanical properties of white blood cells change when they come into contact with pathogens. These changes in viscosity and…