Posted on October 29, 2025
Two University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have been awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, along with colleagues from the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), for their contribution to the ATLAS experiment. The general-purpose particle physics experiment seeks...
Posted on October 24, 2025
Researchers from UP Physics and Mechanical Engineering have joined the SA-ATLAS collaboration.
Posted on October 09, 2025
An international team with strong UP involvement used gravitational lensing to observe an intriguing low-mass dark object in the distant Universe.
Posted on September 26, 2025
Prof Lerothodi Leeuw, a professor in Physics and Astronomy at the University of the Western Cape, has been appointed as the new Head of the Department of Physics at the University of Pretoria (UP) from 1 September 2025.
Posted on September 15, 2025
Prof. Leeuw discusses the lunar eclipse of September 2025
Posted on September 08, 2025
The NAS Faculty newsletter's second edition for 2025 (August 2025), SquaredUP, is now available
Posted on September 02, 2025
We welcome Prof. Lerothodi Leeuw who is the new Head of the Physics Department from September 1, 2025
Posted on July 17, 2025
Ten of the fourteen University of Pretoria (UP) finalists for the 2024/2025 National Science and Technology Foundation (NSTF) Awards hail from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS).
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