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Seismologists try to understand where and when earthquakes might happen in the future by studying recent earthquake sequences. Typically, they rely on the principle that stress accumulates slowly along a fault and is periodically released as an earthquake in a repeating, cyclical pattern. But two near-identical earthquakes...

New research on an 80-million-year-old bird fossil suggests that early birds may have been highly intelligent like modern ones, changing our timeline of when they first got smart. The study , which involved researchers from Cambridge’s Field Palaeobiology Research Group , mapped out impressions left inside the braincase of...

Researchers have conducted a new analysis of the origins of ‘bird-hipped’ dinosaurs – the group which includes iconic species such as Triceratops – and found that they likely evolved from a group of animals known as silesaurs, which were first identified two decades ago. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge...

After centuries without volcanic activity, Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula sprang to life in 2021 when lava erupted from the Fagradalsfjall volcano. New research involving the University of Cambridge helps us visualize what is going on deep beneath the volcano by reading the chemistry of lavas and volcanic gases almost as...