How did the building blocks of life arrive on Earth?
11 Oct 2024 Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements on Earth. The results...
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Explore life in the Universe with new postgraduate programme
18 Sep 2023 A new postgraduate programme will train researchers to understand life's origins, search for habitable planets and consider the most profound question...
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Seawater could have provided phosphorous required for emerging life
27 Sep 2022 The problem of how phosphorus became a universal ingredient for life on Earth may have been solved by researchers from the University of Cambridge and...
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First global map of flow within the Earth’s mantle finds the surface is moving up and down “like a yo-yo”
09 May 2016 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...
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Understanding gravity - from Newton to Hawking
29 Apr 2016 The most important publication in the history of science – Isaac Newton’s own annotated copy of Principia Mathematica – and other seminal works by...
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Ice Age, interrupted
09 Jan 2012 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...
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Reassessing the industrial revolution
21 Sep 2010 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...
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First biodiversity symposium looks to future
16 Sep 2010 Cambridge Conservation Initiative’s (CCI), inaugural symposium, held on Wednesday, focused on how to conserve natural capital and the future of...
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Sustainable Shells in running for 2010 Earth Awards
19 Aug 2010 An innovative building concept co-created by a University of Cambridge architect has reached the finals of the 2010 Earth Awards.
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Researchers get backing for cosmic vision
19 Jul 2010 A proposal to design a spacecraft that would seek out habitable planets beyond our own solar system could become reality after receiving support from...
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