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A Cambridge geochemist, who will represent Great Britain at a major Latin dance world championship, had to keep on top of practice during fieldwork expeditions, and even rehearsed her steps on Greenland’s windswept tundra – in between polar bear watches. Dr Carrie Soderman – who is investigating rare earth elements and why...

New evidence reveals that unmelted asteroids originating from different parts of the Solar System were a key source of volatile elements during the formation of Earth and Mars. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London measured zinc isotopes within Martian meteorites, tracing their unique...

A new study reveals why rocks within some mountain ranges get hot enough to form lithium-rich deposits—insights that could help pinpoint untapped sources of this critical mineral. Dubbed the ‘white gold’ of the energy transition, lithium is essential for batteries that power electric vehicles and store renewable energy. “...

Of all songbirds, the bowerbird has perhaps one of the strangest courtship displays. To attract a mate, males of the species build arched structures or ‘bowers’ using twigs, embellished with colourful objects such as leaves, fruit and even plastic—behaviour famously captured in David Attenborough’s documentaries. Now...