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The Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe (LCLU) was officially launched on 27 June 2022 at Clare College, Cambridge. The Centre seeks to harness simultaneous breakthroughs in astrophysics, planetology, organic chemistry, biology and cognate disciplines to develop a deeper understanding of life, its emergence, and its...

Early animals formed complex ecological communities more than 550 million years ago, setting the evolutionary stage for the Cambrian explosion, according to a study by Rebecca Eden, an undergraduate student who worked on this as part of her final year project in the Department of Zoology, Emily Mitchell , and Andrea Manica...

Nikku Madhusudhan , Professor of Astrophysics and Exoplanetary Science at the Institute of Astronomy, is one of five researchers at the University of Cambridge who have won consolidator grants this year from the European Research Council (ERC), Europe’s premiere funding organisation for frontier research. Prof. Madhusudhan...

The IPLU Science Day was held on 7 February 2022 to bring together researchers from across the University to discuss their work on planetary science and life in the Universe. We were also joined by our guest speaker, Matteo Brogi from the University of Warwick who spoke about his work on exoplanet atmospheres. Below is a...