Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements on Earth. The results...
A new postgraduate programme will train researchers to understand life's origins, search for habitable planets and consider the most profound...
The problem of how phosphorus became a universal ingredient for life on Earth may have been solved by researchers from the University of Cambridge...
Researchers have compiled the first global set of observations of flow within the Earth’s mantle – the layer between the crust and the core – and...
The most important publication in the history of science – Isaac Newton’s own annotated copy of Principia Mathematica – and other seminal works by...
Research shows that a new Ice Age could well have been upon us in the next millennium were it not for increases in CO2 due to humans, despite the...
It was the dawn of an age of prosperity and transformed Britain into an economic superpower but our rose-tinted view of the industrial revolution...
Cambridge Conservation Initiative’s (CCI), inaugural symposium, held on Wednesday, focused on how to conserve natural capital and the...
An innovative building concept co-created by a University of Cambridge architect has reached the finals of the 2010 Earth Awards.
A proposal to design a spacecraft that would seek out habitable planets beyond our own solar system could become reality after receiving support from...
The Earth could be up to 70 million years younger than scientists previously thought, a study has found.
The Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of species on Earth, was caused by an asteroid colliding...
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