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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 University of Cambridge architect has reached the finals of the 2010 Earth Awards.

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McKenzie

BP gift endows new professorship in earth sciences

27 Jul 2010

BP and the University of Cambridge have joined forces to create a new professorship in Earth Sciences.

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Rees says Earth-type planets will be found within years

26 Jul 2010

Astronomer Royal Martin Rees believes that planets resembling Earth may be discovered in the next two to three years – although it may take a further...

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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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Core values set new date for birth of the Earth

09 Jul 2010

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

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algae

Green energy from algae

25 Jun 2010

Visitors to this year's Royal Society Summer Exhibition will have a chance to discover how scientists from the University of Cambridge are studying...

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Best ever snapshot of Black Hole's jets

That's funny

02 Jun 2010

Paul Murdin from the Institute of Astronomy put a human face to the names behind some of the greatest discoveries to have taken place in our efforts...

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carbon burp

Detection of huge carbon burp that helped end ice age

25 May 2010

Scientists have found the possible source of a huge carbon dioxide "burp" that happened some 18,000 years ago and which helped to end the last ice...

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Meteor Crater AZ

Asteroid killed off the dinosaurs

04 Mar 2010

The Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of species on Earth, was caused by an asteroid colliding...

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island

Britain's island heritage: half a million years of history

01 Nov 2009

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

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Planck satellite

The Planck satellite: looking back to the dawn of time

01 Sep 2009

The Planck satellite has just reached its orbit, 1.5 million km from Earth, on a mission to understand the origin and evolution of our Universe.

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Acoustic image

‘Elephant hunting’ with less risk

01 Aug 2009

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

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