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Desert under blue sky

A new model could help stall shifting sand dunes, protecting infrastructure and ecosystems

26 Oct 2021

Cambridge scientists have used downscaled laboratory models to show how sand dunes move through a landscape, revealing the conditions that determine...

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Sand dune

Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other

04 Feb 2020

Even though they are inanimate objects, sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other, researchers have found. A team from the University of Cambridge...

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Boats Arch in the Eastern Sahara, site of recently identified Neolithic rock art

Discovering the artists of the Eastern Sahara

19 May 2014

The identification of rock art found in Farafra as Neolithic adds substance to the argument that Egypt drew on cultural influences from Africa as...

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