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An iron meteorite from the core of a melted planetesimal (left) and a chondrite meteorite, derived from a 鈥榩rimitive鈥, unmelted planetesimal (right).

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. 探花直播results...

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Composite graphic showing planets, vegetation, DNA and book

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...

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Artist Concept of an Early Earth

Seawater could have provided phosphorous required for emerging life

27 Sep 2022

探花直播problem of how phosphorus became a universal ingredient for life on Earth may have been solved by researchers from the 探花直播 of Cambridge...

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Composition of Earth鈥檚 mantle revisited thanks to research at Argonne鈥檚 Advanced Photon Source

First global map of flow within the Earth鈥檚 mantle finds the surface is moving up and down 鈥渓ike a yo-yo鈥

09 May 2016

Researchers have compiled the first global set of observations of flow within the Earth鈥檚 mantle 鈥 the layer between the crust and the core 鈥 and...

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Priceless treasures: in a shot commissioned to celebrate Cambridge  探花直播 Library鈥檚 600th anniversary, Professor Stephen Hawking is pictured with Newton鈥檚 annotated first edition of Principia Mathematica.  Credit: Graham CopeKoga

Understanding gravity - from Newton to Hawking

29 Apr 2016

探花直播most important publication in the history of science 鈥 Isaac Newton鈥檚 own annotated copy of Principia Mathematica 鈥 and other seminal works by...

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Deep into the Patagonia Glacier

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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icy world

Cambridge Ideas: This Icy World

30 Mar 2011

Cambridge 探花直播 glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell has spent three years of his life in the polar regions. //-->

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Coalport China Museum - former Coalport Chinaworks - by the River Severn

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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Forest

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...

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Sustainable shells

Sustainable Shells in running for 2010 Earth Awards

19 Aug 2010

An innovative building concept co-created by a 探花直播 of Cambridge architect has reached the finals of the 2010 Earth Awards.

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earth-sunset

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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