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• Colourful plastics may lead to more microplastics: new study

  Date: 9 May 2024

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  Study led by Â鶹ÊÓƵ concludes that colourants in plastic can affect the rate at which it breaks down and can lead to more harmful...

• New analysis reveals the brutal history of the Winchcombe meteorite’s journey through space

  Date: 16 Apr 2024

  /news/2024/april/winchcombe-meteorite

  Famous meteorite undergoes scientific analysis, including advanced electron microscopy at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, providing insight into the...

• New investment in seismic monitoring facility at Â鶹ÊÓƵ

  Date: 27 Feb 2024

  /news/2024/february/seis-uk-nerc-funding

  Leicester-based SEIS-UK is to benefit from new funding from Natural Environmental Research Council, as will two facilities led by the National...

• UK scientific expertise supports first high-resolution fossil coral record of environmental data off Hawai’i

  Date: 22 Feb 2024

  /news/2024/february/hawaii-coral

  UK-based scientist from the University of St Andrews and scientific operators from the British Geological Survey and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ...

• Fossil fuel burning leaves its mark in Mediterranean corals

  Date: 8 Feb 2024

  /news/2024/february/coral-pollutant

  New study involving the Â鶹ÊÓƵ identifies carbon particles emitted by burning fossil fuels embedded in corals

• New species of Jurassic pterosaur discovered on the Isle of Skye

  Date: 7 Feb 2024

  /news/2024/february/pterosaur-ceoptera

  Team including Â鶹ÊÓƵ palaeontologist have studied a fossil that suggests the flying reptiles developed earlier and were more...

• £2.6 million centre to train mineral resources experts for a new generation

  Date: 9 Jan 2024

  /news/2024/january/target-minerals-postgraduate

  Training and Research Group for Energy Transition Mineral Resources (TARGET) to be led by Â鶹ÊÓƵ with universities, research...

• Bizarre new fossils shed light on ancient plankton

  Date: 25 Oct 2023

  /news/2023/october/fossils-plankton

  Microfossils discovered by Â鶹ÊÓƵ scientist date back half a billion years.

• ‘Fizzy pop’ process reveals copper-rich volcanoes

  Date: 20 Oct 2023

  /news/2023/october/volcano

  Identifying magmas that experience the same process that makes fizzy drinks ‘bubbly’ has been used by a team of Â鶹ÊÓƵ geologists...

• Core values: the geoscientists searching for climate answers beneath the ocean floor

  Date: 10 Oct 2023

  /news/2023/october/hawaii-coral-geoscience

  Two geoscientists from the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment are on a voyage to unearth the hidden history within Hawai’ian fossil...