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MeerKAT telescope unveiled in South Africa

Data gained from a giant telescope in South Africa will help to shape our understanding of the universe and how stars and galaxies are formed.

17 women in MPLS are now live and part of MSD’s Women in Science project website

The Women in Science project has a collection of 56 interviews with women scientists all working at Oxford. This includes new interviews from 17 women working in Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences completed in 2017/18, alongside the original 39 women interviewed in Medical Sciences in 2014/15.

Focussed ultrasound used to improve effects of cancer drugs

Researchers have made a breakthrough in more precisely targeting drugs to cancers. Using ultrasound and lipid drug carriers (liposomes), a multi-disciplinary team of biomedical engineers, oncologists, radiologists and anaesthetists at the University of Oxford have developed a new way to improve the targeting of cancer drugs to tumours.

SCIENCE BLOG: Nature is our greatest ally in the fight against climate change

Nathalie Seddon, Professor of Biodiversity & NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow at Oxford’s Department of Zoology, discusses the launch of her new Nature-based Solutions Initiative , which took place at the Adaptation Futures 2018 Conference, in Cape Town last week. Through policy advice and advocacy, the interdisciplinary, research-led programme aims to increase the use of natural solutions in the fight against climate change.

Rosalind Franklin Institute will 'transform' life sciences research through disruptive technologies

Business Secretary Greg Clark has today launched the £103m Rosalind Franklin Institute (RFI), a national centre of excellence that will harness disruptive technologies such as AI and robotics to improve dramatically our understanding of biology.

How the latest tech and some healthy activism can curb fake news

Jakob Foerster, Doctoral student, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, from the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, writes in The Conversation...

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Research income for 2015/16 £135m

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