University of Edinburgh

August 6, 2024 4:47 PM

Fossil study finds how sea level changes shaped early life on Earth

A groundbreaking study from the University of Edinburgh has unveiled a new timeline of early animal fossils, suggesting a significant relationship between sea level fluctuations, marine oxygen variations, and the emergence of the earliest ancestors of present-day animals. The research, focusing on the Ediacaran-Cambrian interval (580-510 million years ago), provides fresh insights into the processes driving the development of Earth's earliest creatures. This period, long known for its explosion...

UK Nobel winning physicist Peter Higgs dies aged 94

Physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of an undetected particle in the universe changed science and was vindicated by a Nobel prize-winning discovery half a century later, has died aged 94, the University of Edinburgh said on Tuesday (April 9). The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 at the CERN research center near Geneva was widely hailed as the biggest advance in knowledge about the cosmos for over 30 years, and pointed physics towards ideas that were once science fiction. Edinburgh Universi...