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A photo of the Silurians from Doctor Who (Credits to the BBC Website) The Silurian Hypothesis is a thought experiment that was proposed...

Eternal flames, flames that burn for an indefinite amount of time, have been the source of wonder, myth, and legends around the world for...

On the evening of the 7th October the skies of the British North lit up with the spectacular sight of the aurora borealis. A geomagnetic...

When looking over my lectures notes from our climate dynamics course whilst revising last year, I came across a small section that starts...

It's a normal evening in Thursday in September 1859, you're sitting in your living room and suddenly the sky outside lights up an eerie...

When looking through my lecture notes from last term I came across many things: some very complicated equations, some parts when I had...

A couple weeks ago helped organise a panel event on behalf of the Oxford Scientist magazine along with the Oxford Climate Society...

Studying Earth Science is not exclusively studying rocks and, as anyone who has been around here before knows, the rocks are not actually...

With the announcement, this October, of Oxford being the new international headquarters for the Breakthrough Listen Project, I thought I...

Doing some renovations on our family home, my mum was set with the task of choosing a stone for the counter tops in our kitchen. Having...

The Lobanov-Rotovsky lecture is annually hosted by the Oxford Department of Earth Sciences in the Oxford University Museum of Natural...

The Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) is a really rather wonderful place. Situated on Parks road about a 3 minute walk...

One of the biggest challenges facing today’s society is the transition to a low carbon economy. Technologies such as electric cars, solar...

An extinction occurs when the last member of a species dies. Background extinction refers to the fact that species are constantly going...

It has been all over the news in the past week that iceberg A76a, an iceberg the size of Greater London, has been drifting closer to...

When you think of the major space powers, nations such as the USA, Russia and China spring to mind. No one would have thought that the...

Only twelve people have ever walked on the moon. All twelve were astronauts, all twelve had undergone extensive training under NASA’s...

Image of Stonehenge at the summer solstice from: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/history-and-mystery-behind-the-origin-of-stonehenge....

When visiting my parents in Dubai over the Christmas holidays we had a family day out at the Museum of Future. Located in a particularly...

Image of a core from CarbFix site at CarbFix project, Orkuveita Reykjavikur Carbon dioxide is a waste gas product produced by the burning...