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Welcome to our new LCLU Finance Coordinator

8 January 2025

Our new Finance Coordinator Grace Wang joined the LCLU administration team on 16 December 2024. Before this role, she gained valuable experience in University as a Finance Assistant in Mott Hub, Physics Department and as a Finance Coordinator at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership(CISL), University of...

Self-Sustaining Living Habitats in Extraterrestrial Environments

10 December 2024

Self-Sustaining Living Habitats in Extraterrestrial Environments Authors: R. Wordsworth and C. Cockell Standard definitions of habitability assume that life requires the presence of planetary gravity wells to stabilize liquid water and regulate surface temperature. Here, the consequences of relaxing this assumption are...

Greenhouse Warming Potential of a Suite of Gas Species on Early Mars Evaluated Using a Radiative-Convective Climate Model

14 November 2024

Several billion years ago, geological evidence indicates that Mars was warmer and wetter, with flowing rivers and lakes on its surface. This is hard to explain because the Sun was fainter then, and Mars's orbit is more distant than Earth's. The atmosphere of early Mars was probably thicker, but additional greenhouse gases...

Trinity College and the University of Cambridge to invest £48m in PhD studentships

12 November 2024

A new multi-million fund established by Trinity and the University of Cambridge seeks the brightest minds from across the world to conduct ground-breaking research at the University, creating the next generation of pioneering treatments, technology and services. The Trinity Cambridge Research Studentships (TCRS) have been...

Bridging disciplines: the Origins Federation Conference 2024

26 September 2024

The second edition of the Origins Federation Conference brought together in Cambridge its diverse and ever more consolidated scientific community. Researchers from the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich share their impressions. News article shared by ETH Zurich, Centre for Origins and Prevalence of Life...

NOMIS–ETH Postdoctoral Fellowships: 2024 Call for Applications open until 08 November 2024

18 September 2024

The NOMIS Foundation ETH Fellowship Programme supports postdoctoral researchers at ETH Zurich within the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life . The programme is intended to foster the development of young interdisciplinary researchers in the field of the origin and prevalence of life who have demonstrated scientific...

Reflections on the 2024 Annual Science Day by the members of the Organising committee

26 March 2024

On Friday 15th March, researchers from across nine university departments gathered at King’s College for the LCLU’s Annual Science Day. Over half the attendees were students, and represented fields ranging from theoretical physics and astronomy to philosophy and divinity, and everything in between. The event celebrated the...

News coverage on new paper by Paul Rimmer and Oliver Shorttle: "Graphite Likely Enabled Creation Of Earth’s First Prebiotic Molecules"

25 March 2024

Image: © Zbynek Burival / Mineralexpert.org Graphite —- better known as ordinary pencil lead —- likely triggered the onset of the first prebiotic molecules here on earth. But there was nothing simple about it. The creation of enough graphite to push along the needed chemical complexity to vector towards life was arguably...

Credit Dr Jonny Itcovitz (IOA, University of Cambridge)

LCLU funded paper on the origins of life has just been published in nature astronomy

19 February 2024

Cosmic dust fertilization of glacial prebiotic chemistry on early Earth Craig R. Walton , Jessica K. Rigley , Alexander Lipp , Robert Law , Martin D. Suttle , Maria Schönbächler , Mark Wyatt & Oliver Shorttle Image Credit: Dr Jonny Itcovitz (IOA, University of Cambridge) Abstract Earth’s surface is deficient in...

Congratulations to the recipient's of the Joint Collaborations Award 2023-2024

29 January 2024

The Joint Collaborative Programme is aimed at enabling collaboration between research groups within the University of Cambridge and partner institutes on origins of life research. We are happy to announce that this year we awarded funding for seven more projects: A theoretical underpinning of chiral selectivity on magnetic...

Welcome to our new LCLU Finance Coordinator

Self-Sustaining Living Habitats in Extraterrestrial Environments

Greenhouse Warming Potential of a Suite of Gas Species on Early Mars Evaluated Using a Radiative-Convective Climate Model

Trinity College and the University of Cambridge to invest £48m in PhD studentships

Bridging disciplines: the Origins Federation Conference 2024

NOMIS–ETH Postdoctoral Fellowships: 2024 Call for Applications open until 08 November 2024

Reflections on the 2024 Annual Science Day by the members of the Organising committee

News coverage on new paper by Paul Rimmer and Oliver Shorttle: "Graphite Likely Enabled Creation Of Earth’s First Prebiotic Molecules"

LCLU funded paper on the origins of life has just been published in nature astronomy

Congratulations to the recipient's of the Joint Collaborations Award 2023-2024

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