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We are pleased to welcome three outstanding early-career researchers, recipients of the 2025 Judith McKenzie Visiting Early Career Researcher Fellowship. Their diverse projects in geoscience bring valuable perspectives to our academic community.

Trace metals such as iron or zinc that are stored in deep-sea sediments are lost forever to phytoplankton on the ocean surface. This is what geochemists believed for a long time about the cycle of micronutrients in seawater. Now, researchers at ETH Zurich have discovered that this is not the case.

A spectacular breakthrough in geoscience shows that our planet is in motion even at a depth of 3000 kilometres.

Life needs sufficient phosphorus. However, the element is scarce, not only today but also at the time of the origin of life. So where was there sufficient phosphorus four billion years ago for life to emerge? A team of origin-of-life researchers has an answer.