Earth’s earliest sea creatures drove evolution by stirring the water
17 May 2024
3D reconstructions suggest that simple marine animals living over 560 million years ago drove the emergence of more complex life by mixing the seawater around them
Webb detects most distant black hole merger to date
16 May 2024
An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, has used the James Webb Space Telescope to find evidence for an ongoing merger of two galaxies and their massive black holes when the Universe was only 740 million years old. This marks the most distant detection of a black hole merger ever obtained...
Ten Cambridge scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society 2024
16 May 2024
Ten outstanding Cambridge researchers have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences and the oldest science academy in continuous existence.