Big data for big discoveries

Posted on July 31, 2018

The University of Pretoria (UP) is one of three South African universities taking a novel approach to analysing big data, building capacity and research expertise ahead of the deluge of data expected to come streaming in through new telescopes like the South African Radio Astronomy...

Official launch of the NAS T&L Bulletin - Wednesday 1 August 2018

Posted on July 31, 2018

Official launch of the NAS T&L Bulletin - Wednesday 1 August 2018

Elephants migrate despite protected area boundaries and international borders

Posted on July 30, 2018

A new study from the Conservation Ecology Research Unit (CERU) at the University of Pretoria set out to unravel migration in the world’s largest terrestrial mammal – the savanna elephant. Migration, a term often associated with wildebeest in the Serengeti, is more common amongst...

Communication is costly in Heaviside's Dolphins

Posted on July 20, 2018

Research led by scientists at the University of Pretoria (UP) has shed light on an evolutionary arms race with a twist. This research, conducted by Morgan J. Martin, a PhD student from UP has found that the small Heaviside’s dolphins (Cephalorhynchus heavisidii) selectively switch between...

White rhinos communicate through their ablution habits

Posted on July 19, 2018

A study by a University of Pretoria researcher into the ablution habits of white rhinos in the Hluhluwe iMfolozi Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, has revealed that these animals use their place of defecation to communicate with each other and take decisions that can affect their ecology.

Department of Physics represents UP at MeerKAT inauguration

Posted on July 17, 2018

Prof Roger Deane from the Department of Physics represented UP at the launch of the MeerKAT radio telescope, inaugurated by Deputy President David Mabuza in the Northern Cape. Built and operated by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), the MeerKAT comprises 64 radio dishes, each...

Bright student has a planet named after him

Posted on July 11, 2018

How many people can say they have had a planet has been named after them and that they have published internationally, all before reaching the age of 21? Bernard Smit, a final-year microbiology student at the University of Pretoria (UP), recently published an article in the international journal...

UP academic, ‘a fighter against hunger'

Posted on July 03, 2018

Hunger is on the rise again worldwide, despite the rapid progress needed to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, which is to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Currently, one person in three is...