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Dr. Ramón Pellitero, postdoctoral researcher in the Glaciology group, has been awarded a Dudley Stamp Memorial Award of £500 by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).  The funded project, titled “Ice climate relations during the Late Quaternary in Northern Spain” will investigate the evolution of glaciers during the Late Pleistocene...

Efforts to assess the possibility of life on Mars have taken a step forward thanks to the work of scientists who have successfully extracted methane from Martian rock.

A new exhibition has opened to the public at the Bennachie Visitor Centre near Inverurie, northeast Scotland, to showcase a palaeoecological study undertaken on ‘the hill’ by researchers from the School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen. The display features posters containing the results from pollen analysis and radiocarbon dating of...

The impact on the world of research conducted at the University of Aberdeen has been confirmed in the latest international rankings of research-intensive universities.

The University of Aberdeen has been chosen to coordinate a new MSc degree programme that will drive forward innovation in the oil and gas industry.

The University of Aberdeen has again successfully retained a nationally recognised award for excellence in supporting researcher career development.

An ancient lake could hold the key to our understanding of how complex life evolved on Earth, according to research carried out by the University of Aberdeen.

The University of Aberdeen has signed a historic agreement to establish its first international campus in South Korea.

Students from the University of Aberdeen have successfully completed a volunteering programme which has seen them work as student tutors in primary and secondary schools throughout the north-east.

Families are invited to join in the fun and discover science as part of British Science Week.