PAGES (Past Global Changes) is a project at the University of Bern, Switzerland, which supports research aimed at understanding the Earth’s past environment in order to make predictions for the future. We encourage international and interdisciplinary collaborations and seek to … Continue reading →
Use your computer to contribute to the academic, nonprofit research being performed by climateprediction.net. Their computer models simulate the climate for the next century, producing predictions of temperature, rainfall and the probability of extreme weather events. The more models that … Continue reading →
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey will invent new modes of scientific storytelling to reveal the grandeur of the universe and re-invent celebrated elements of the original series, including the Cosmic Calendar and the Ship of the Imagination. Uniting scepticism and wonder, … Continue reading →
The 2014 Footlights Spring Revue at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge, England, is a chronological odyssey through the history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the invention of the iPhone and everything in between. This whistle-stop tour runs through … Continue reading →
Professor of geoscience, John Valley of the University of Wisconsin, and others, have used atom-probe tomography for the first time to determine the age of a zircon crystal from the Jack Hills region of Western Australia, dating it to 4.4 … Continue reading →
A DVD and Blu-Ray version of the History Channel documentary series, Big History, will be available from 11 March 2014. At the time of writing, they are available from the USA Amazon store. Big History UK has not seen these, … Continue reading →
The Big History UK group are proud to announce that Australian historian David Christian has agreed to be their Honorary President. “Big History” is the interdisciplinary study of the history of the universe, the Earth and mankind from the beginning … Continue reading →
Big History UK wants to develop resources which can be used as a short introduction to Big History within clubs and societies, such as University of the Third Age, Scouts groups, literary societies, nature conservation groups, ecological groups, religious groups … Continue reading →
“The sun, like all main sequence stars, is getting brighter with time and that affects the Earth’s climate,” says Dr. James F. Kasting, professor of meteorology and geosciences at Penn State University. “Eventually temperatures will become high enough so that … Continue reading →
This article in the on-line magazine The Conversation explains how, beginning with the collision of India with Asia 20 mya, followed by the opening of the Great Rift Valley, the climate and landscape of East Africa changed from flat wet … Continue reading →