Articles about 'Earth'

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

A proposal to design a spacecraft that would seek out habitable planets beyond our own solar system could become reality after receiving support from the UK Space Agency.

The Earth could be up to 70 million years younger than scientists previously thought, a study has found.

The Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of species on Earth, was caused by an asteroid colliding with Earth and not massive volcanic activity, according to a comprehensive new review of all the evidence.

The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.

Cambridge scientists are helping to improve the chances of success of oil exploration in some of the Earth’s most hostile frontiers.

Chinese, Indian, American and British scientists have released a conference declaration urging a region-by-region response to increased water scarcity and heightened hazards.

Cambridge University researchers are casting their gaze back to the start of the universe following the launch last week of two of the most expensive scientific satellites ever built by the European Space Agency.

New understanding of the physics of clouds is helping to model both climate change and the impact of volcanic eruptions and wild fires.

Scientists explore huge volume of molten rock now frozen into the crust under the ocean’s floor.