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Bacterial armour plating has implications for antibiotics
Antimicrobial resistance Chemistry Medical science Research
3 November 2022
A new study, involving researchers in the departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Kavli Institute, sheds light on how Gram-negative bacteria like E. coli construct their outer membrane to resemble body armour, which has far-reaching implications for the development of antibiotics.
Oxford University joins €2.9 million Quantum Technologies Flagship project
Engineering Funding Materials science
3 November 2022
The grant to Professor Natalia Ares from the Department of Engineering Science will fund the ASPECTS consortium, which brings together leading experimental and theoretical physicists across Europe with the common goal of uncovering the limitations of natural timekeeping devices to assess whether precision measurements can be more energy efficient.
500 million year-old fossils reveal answer to evolutionary riddle
Earth sciences Research
2 November 2022
An exceptionally well-preserved collection of fossils discovered in eastern Yunnan Province, China, has enabled researchers to solve a centuries-old riddle in the evolution of life on earth, revealing what the first animals to make skeletons looked like.
COP27 must deliver fast action, swift justice and protect nature – Oxford experts
Climate
2 November 2022
In a series of powerful 'hopes' for Egypt, 20 leading researchers from across the University have recorded wishes and warnings in videos and written messages for the delegates to COP27.
It’s perfectly possible to remove CO2 from the atmosphere - Professor Myles Allen, the physicist behind net zero
Climate Physics
1 November 2022
In the run-up to COP27, Myles Allen, Department of Physics and Environmental Change Institute, discusses more than two decades of work on climate change.
$3m Rockefeller Foundation funding to strengthen pandemic surveillance and response innovation co-developed by Oxford biologists
Biology COVID-19 Funding Medical science
1 November 2022
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced $3 million in new funding for Global.health (G.h) – a first-of-its-kind, open-source platform for scientific pandemic data.
Two major meteorite impacts reveal new insights about the surface of Mars
Physics Research Space
28 October 2022
Following two large meteorite impacts on Mars, near-surface seismic waves have been recorded for the first time on a planet other than Earth. The data, analysed by an international team involving University of Oxford researchers, has revealed valuable new information about the structure of the Martian crust.
New Scottish fossil sheds light on the origins of lizards
Earth sciences Research
27 October 2022
Oxford palaeobiologists, working with researchers at the University of Warsaw and University College London, have shed new light on the evolution of lizards using a fossil discovery from Scotland, in research published in the journal Nature.
Oxford tops Times Higher Education world ranking for Computer Science for fifth consecutive year
Computer science
26 October 2022
Oxford joins Schmidt Futures’ $148 million global initiative to accelerate use of AI in scientific research
AI and data science Funding MPLS
26 October 2022
The University of Oxford is one of nine leading research universities around the world selected to deliver a new global postdoctoral fellowship programme to drive the innovative use of artificial intelligence across science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research.
Oxford to benefit from STFC theoretical physics funding
Funding Maths Physics
25 October 2022
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) announced this week that they have awarded more than £20 million for UK theoretical physics. The investment will benefit the Particle Theory group in the Department of Physics as well as the Mathematical Physics group in the Mathematical Institute.
Discovery of new ecosystem - ‘The Trapping Zone’ - creating oasis of life in the Maldives
Biology Research Sustainability & the environment
24 October 2022
The Nekton Maldives Mission, involving Oxford marine biologists, has found evidence of a previously undescribed ecosystem - ‘The Trapping Zone’ - that is creating an oasis of life 500 metres down in the depths of the Indian Ocean. The discovery has been hailed as highly significant by the Maldives Government.
Oxford-led study finds disease outbreaks influence the colour of wolves across North America
Biology Research
24 October 2022
New research led by biologists from the University of Oxford, working with partners at Yellowstone National Park and Penn State in the US, may have finally solved why wolves change colour across the North American continent.
From The Conversation: The danger of advanced artificial intelligence controlling its own feedback
AI and data science Engineering Research The Conversation
24 October 2022
'How would an artificial intelligence (AI) decide what to do?', asks Oxford DPhil candidate in Engineering Science, Michael K Cohen, and his co-author Marcus Hutter from the Australian National University, in this article which highlights the potential risks of relying on the 'reinforcement learning' approach in AI research.
MPLS researchers amongst four from Oxford to be awarded £100,000 Philip Leverhulme prizes
Award Climate Engineering Materials science Research Sustainability & the environment
21 October 2022
Four researchers from across the University of Oxford, including two from the Department of Materials and the Department of Engineering Science, have been awarded Philip Leverhulme prizes – the largest number awarded to researchers of any single UK university.
Oxford to host Electric Vehicle Summit on growth, investment and decarbonisation
Chemistry Energy Engineering Innovation and Enterprise MPLS Materials science Physics
20 October 2022
The 2022 Oxford Electric Vehicle Summit will focus on growth and investment, as it returns to Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. The event is in partnership with Oxford City Council, Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University and aims to deliver on decarbonised transport in the UK, and beyond.
Noise in the brain enables us to make extraordinary leaps of imagination. It could transform the power of computers too
Climate Physics The Conversation
20 October 2022
Professor Tim Palmer, Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Physics, discusses how noise can improve the accuracy of climate models, and how noise in the brain is the key to creativity, in an article first published on the Conversation.
Elephant conservation may be undermined by Twitter users who overlook main threats
Biology The Conversation
18 October 2022
An article first published on the Conversation by Amy Dickman, Professor of Wildlife Conservation in the Department of Biology, and colleagues Niall Hammond from Griffith University and Duan Biggs at Northern Arizona University.
MPLS students take up Google PhD Fellowships in Engineering and Statistics
Award Engineering Funding Research Statistics
14 October 2022
MPLS DPhil candidates Liliane Momeni and Sheheryar Zaidi have taken up prestigious Google PhD Fellowships, each worth $60,000, after been selected from a highly competitive field of applicants last year.
Study reveals new insights into how fast-moving glaciers may contribute to sea-level rise
Climate Earth sciences Research
14 October 2022
A new study from researchers at the University of Oxford and Columbia University, USA, has found existing models of sea-level rise, based on our understanding of how Earth’s ice sheets respond to a warming atmosphere, could be incorrect. The team's findings could have significant implications for future predictions of global sea-level rise.