UP-led astronomy research team explores formation of giant radio galaxies

Posted on February 10, 2025

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has provided deeper insight into the entire life cycle (birth, growth and death) of giant radio galaxies, which resemble “cosmic fountains” – jets of superheated...

University of Pretoria researchers give the voiceless a voice

Posted on June 26, 2023

How do people who cannot speak consult with their doctor and tell them what is wrong? To answer this, researchers at the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) in the Faculty of Humanities conducted a study that involved designing a...

Re.Search Issue 2: Innovation

Posted on April 26, 2022

Innovation is the next step forward. The innovations highlighted in this edition show us that the knowledge we create today is a step forward to future.

UP vet team gives macaw new lease of life with 3D-printed beak

Posted on October 27, 2021

Many people get prosthetic titanium limbs as a result of illness or injury. Now, thanks to a University of Pretoria (UP) team led by Professor Gerhard Steenkamp, a veterinary specialist in dentistry and maxillofacial surgery at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, a macaw has been given a new lease...