Posted on August 02, 2022
The world’s largest colony of nesting fish lives beneath the Antarctic ice
Posted on July 28, 2022
Onkgopotse Seabi is a UP MSc student with @SANBI_FBIP who is doing her bit to reduce the devastation wrought by fruit fly infestations in SA. Read about how her work can contribute to helping maintain affordable fruit and vegetable prices.
Posted on June 22, 2022
Rising temperatures as a result of climate change will affect bird species differently, and their abilities to withstand extremely hot conditions depend on the part of the world that they find themselves in and the climatic region to which their physiology has become adapted over the course of...
Posted on June 13, 2022
Nearly 70 prizes were awarded at the Annual Exceptional Achievers Function for the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences students in May this year.
Posted on June 09, 2022
Earlier this month, the National Science and Technology Forum announced the finalists for this year’s NSTF-South32 Awards. UP congratulates and celebrates nine of our own researchers who have been nominated!
Posted on June 05, 2022
World Environment Day on 5 June celebrates one single fact that unites the entirety of humanity – we all are on this one planet together, and it’s the only home we have. It is the largest celebration of its kind and is the United Nations' principal vehicle for encouraging awareness...
Posted on May 31, 2022
Faculty newsletter for May 2022 now available
Posted on May 19, 2022
A breakthrough study from the University of Pretoria has found that small hive beetles trapped inside a honeybee nest sneakily entice the very bees that keep them prisoner into providing them with the best of what there is to feed on in the hive – even some of the queen’s portion.
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