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AI trained to study individual birds in wild populations
Using artificial intelligence, biologists can now train computers to recognise individual birds in wild populations by their feather formations – good news for conservation biology.
07 Aug 2020
COVID-19: high-flow nasal cannula ‘valuable’ alternative to ventilation
Upscaling the use of high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy on COVID-19 patients at Groote Schuur Hospital has yielded encouraging results.
04 Aug 2020
CIDRI-Africa jump-starts six COVID-19 research projects
UCT’s Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa has awarded “pump-priming” funding for six COVID-19 research projects.
04 Aug 2020
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Can undergraduate international exchange programmes go virtual?
Educators and institutions attempt to push the boundaries of digital education with virtual exchange programmes in the hopes of becoming more inclusive.
04 Aug 2020
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Women’s work, food and reproductive labour: a snapshot of gender equality research at UCT
UCT researchers are working to better understand how gender inequality continues to affect every aspect of women’s lives in South Africa.
04 Aug 2020
UCT researchers selected for global climate change report
UCT’s Professor Harald Winkler and Dr Christopher Trisos join a team of 39 peers from across the world to produce a global climate change report.
03 Aug 2020
Study lets cat out of the bag
In an African first, the prey returns of domestic cats were compared to video kills to reveal that cats kill 5.56 times more animals than returns data suggested.
03 Aug 2020
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