Associate Professor of Palaeobiology, Erin Saupe, is one of 9 UK recipients of the 2022 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, in recognition of her work using the fossil record to understand how species respond to environmental changes over both long and short timescales.
Sunset over the oil industry: Depleted oil fields are one of the targets for carbon dioxide burial and related technology development. The paper by Tyne et al., published in Nature this month, shows that subsurface microbial activity may make this type of carbon burial target more complex than originally thought.
Mars explorers searching for signs of ancient life could be fooled by fossil-like specimens created by chemical processes, research suggests.