Tag: Cambridge

• Friday, July 10th 2026 - 18:51 UTC

  British Antarctic Survey confirms Antarctica's first dinosaur fossil, 40 years on

  

  A bone collected in Antarctica four decades ago has been identified as the first dinosaur fossil found on the continent, according to a study published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. It is a tail vertebra from a titanosaur, the group of long-necked sauropods that includes the largest land animals that ever lived.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 08:43 UTC

  UK Antarctic Science Conference at BAS, Cambridge

  

  The British Antarctic Survey, BAS, has announced that the UK Antarctic Science Conference 2024 will take place at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, 1st – 3rd October 2024. The meeting aims to bring together all in the UK who are involved in Antarctic research or the support of Antarctic research.

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Sukey receives her OBE “for services to the people of the Falkland Islands”

  

  Former Falkland Islands Government Representative at Falklands House in London, Sukey Cameron, received her OBE from HRH the Duke of Cambridge at Windsor Castle.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Cambridge appeals for the recovery of missing Charles Darwin's notebooks with “Tree of Life” sketches

  

  Two of Charles Darwin-s notebooks containing his pioneering ideas on evolution and his famous “Tree of Life” sketch are missing, believed stolen, the Cambridge University Library said on Tuesday. The British scientist filled the leather notebooks in 1837 after returning from his voyage on the HMS Beagle. The library said they were worth millions of pounds.

• Saturday, January 4th 2020 - 09:04 UTC

  UK needs super talented “weirdos and mistifs” and no more “Oxbridge” graduates

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose Conservative Party trounced Labour in last month's elections, has vowed to strike new trade deals with countries outside Europe after Britain's departure from the European Union.

• Thursday, April 11th 2019 - 09:35 UTC

  Seeing the unseeable: This is the very first picture of a black hole

  

  A world-spanning network of telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope zoomed in on the super-massive monster in the galaxy M87 to create this first-ever picture of a black hole.

• Friday, September 28th 2012 - 01:12 UTC

  UK universities take four of six top slots in global rating

  

  UK universities have taken four of the six top slots in a global university “league table” for 2011-12. Cambridge - top last year - was second in the QS World University Rankings, which are based on a number of areas.

• Friday, August 10th 2012 - 22:37 UTC

  Ice patrol HMS Protector crew to visit the affiliated city of Cambridge

  

  The university city of Cambridge might be more used to punts, but it is about to welcome the crew of a Royal Navy ship. HMS Protector, the Navy's 5.000-ton Antarctic patrol vessel is to visit the region on Monday, marking her first visit to her affiliated city of Cambridge since the formal link was established a year ago.

• Wednesday, October 5th 2011 - 08:18 UTC

  Brazil with the best universities in Latam; Sao Paulo top of the list

  

  Brazil’s Sao Paulo University, USP, ranks as the top higher education institution in Latin America according to a list published by QS, and which includes universities from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Argentina.