The grants are funded by the Horizon programme, and support mid-career researchers on a project of up to five years in length ...

Eight Cambridge researchers have been awarded a total of €17 million in funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe ...

The first complex animals to have ever existed arose during the Ediacaran period (635–540 million years ago). Before then, less complex and single-celled organisms, like sponges and cyanobacteria, ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Magnetic signatures hidden inside rocks tell us a lot about Earth's magnetic field and the way continents and tectonic plates have shifted across millennia – but for some periods, the geological ...

Virginia Tech geobiologists have recently concluded that the loss of the bulk of the species existing at the end of the Ediacaran Period (nearly 550 million years ago) was caused by a drop in oxygen ...

New Haven, Conn. — Earth’s Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for scientists. During earlier and later time periods, tectonic ...

One of the earliest known fossil animals, Dickinsonia lived on the sea floor over a half billion years ago. Based on traces of a biochemical marker, coprostanol, UC Davis paleobiologists propose that ...

These complex, looping tracks pressed into ancient seafloor mud look much more like doodles made by a child with a stick than fossils of animal movement. However, new measurements have shown those ...

During the late Ediacaran period (about 550–540 million years ago), Earth experienced significant biological, geochemical, and geomagnetic changes, leading to widespread remagnetization particularly ...

Australia’s Outback. Image by Gabriele Delhey, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons. The discovery of the oldest known ...

If you’ve ever experienced irregular bowel movements during your period, you’re not alone. Your menstrual cycle can lead to symptoms like bloating, cramping, and changes in your bowel movements. Many ...