What’s the story Morning Glory? Taxonomy, evolution and sweet potatoes
Scientists at the University of Oxford reveal that the sweet potato and its storage root originated at least 2 million years ago — that is, not only before agriculture but also long before modern humans appeared on Earth.
Read moreA battle for the jet stream is raging above our heads
Tim Woollings, Associate Professor in Physical Climate Science in the Department of Physics, discusses the factors affecting changes in the jet stream, in an article first published on the Conversation.
Read moreHester Cordelia Parsons Fund 2019-20: Call for Applications
Applications are invited from members of the University for grants that support the costs of research in experimental biological science.
Read moreOxford University to play major role in project to map genomes of all life in the British Isles
The University of Oxford is a partner in a consortium awarded a £9.4 million research grant from the Wellcome Trust. Coordinated by the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, the Darwin Tree of Life project aims to determine the complete DNA sequence or genome of every species of animal, plant, fungus (and more) in the UK.
Read moreCreating fake rhino horn with horse hair to help save the endangered rhino
Scientists from the University of Oxford and Fudan University, Shanghai, have invented a way to create fake rhino horn using horse hair. Published in Scientific Reports they hope their method will provide a blueprint to create credible fakes that could eventually flood a market which has decimated the wild rhino population.
Read moreOxford-led doctoral training partnership to offer over 175 graduate scholarships in the biosciences
The University of Oxford and its partner organisations have been awarded funding that will support the training of over 175 bioscience graduate students as part of £170 million investment in bioscience by the BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council, part of UK Research and Innovation).
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Immersion day
Wednesday, 27 November 2019 @ IT & Teaching Suite, Department of Statistics, 24-29 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3LB
This one-day technical workshop is designed to provide hands-on training for core AWS services including compute, networking, storage, and security. In this introductory session, through a mix of classroom training and hands-on labs led by AWS Solutions Architects, you will learn about AWS foundational services as well as key concepts for AWS security measures and architecture best practices.
Spin networks: the quantum structure of spacetime from Penrose's intuition to Loop Quantum Gravity. With Carlo Rovelli
Monday, 02 December 2019, 5.30pm to 6.30pm
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A battle for the jet stream is raging above our heads
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Restoring ancient Greek inscriptions using AI deep learning
14 November 2019
Hester Cordelia Parsons Fund 2019-20: Call for Applications
12 November 2019