The Building Blocks of Life
Searching for the essence of life on Earth, understanding climate change and investigating the spread of diseases – these are a few examples of the fundamental research that academics at St Andrews will be tackling…
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The search for Alien life
Working alongside colleagues at NASA, University of Washington and UNAM, Mexico, Dr Mark Claire of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, has discovered that signs previously thought to confirm the…
A boring billion years of Earth evolution
Research led by Profs Peter Cawood and Chris Hawkesworth of the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences has shown that Earth’s middle age (from 1.7 to 0.75 billion years ago) was characterised by relative…
New lab to unravel the mysteries of Earth and life
On Thursday July 17th, Drs Aubrey Zerkle and Mark Claire held a grand opening for their new geobiology laboratory space in the Bute building. Approximately 40 members of staff from the Department of Earth and…
Oldest hominin footprint surface outside Africa found
Research by a team of scientists, including Dr Richard Bates of the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, believe they have found the oldest hominin footprint surface outside of Africa, with an estimated date…