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How can thinking and expertise from a discipline forged in Earth’s 4.6 billion-year-old history inform the search for life beyond our solar system? This month’s edition of Elements Magazine International, titled ‘ Geoscience Beyond the Solar System’ , and co-edited by Cambridge University’s Dr Oliver Shorttle , explores...

Members of the Field Palaeobiology Research Group at the Department of Earth Sciences, together with staff at the Sedgwick Museum , were nominated for the Vice Chancellor's Collaboration Award for their exhibit, ‘ Dawn of the Wonderchicken: the Oldest Modern Bird ’. The Vice Chancellor’s Awards scheme was established in...

CAMBRIDGE -- the Cambridge Centre for Climate Science and Cambridge Zero today held a panel discussion on the recently published IPCC Working Group I report, Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis. The panel was chaired by Eric Wolff , Professor and ice core scientist at the Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge...

What conditions lead to the formation of hydrogen needed for early life on rocky planets? Cambridge Earth Science's Dr Paul Rimmer and Prof. Nick Tosca recently featured amongst a panel of earth scientists who discussed this conundrum. Prebiotic chemistry deals with the synthesis and interaction of those organic compounds...