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UK-based consortium established to develop prototype solid-state batteries
Business and Industry Funding Materials science
19 August 2021
A consortium of seven UK-based organisations, including Oxford University, have signed a memorandum of understanding to combine ambitions to develop world-leading prototype solid-state battery technology, targeting automotive applications.
How to design an icosahedral quasicrystal through directional bonding
Chemistry Research
18 August 2021
Professor Jonathan Doye from the Department of Chemistry writes about his research.
Sharing vaccines between nations: a mathematical approach
Biology COVID-19 Maths Research Zoology
17 August 2021
New research from the University of Oxford and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, published in Frontiers in Public Health, uses mathematical modelling to determine the most equitable way to share vaccines between nations.
New research on preventing infant deaths due to neonatal sepsis
Antimicrobial resistance Biology Chemistry Medical science Research Zoology
10 August 2021
Information about the most effective antibiotics to use in low and middle income countries (LMICs) for neonatal sepsis has been discovered uniquely combining epidemiological, genomic and pharmacodynamic data.
Oxford climate scientists: No doubt about climate change
Climate Physics
9 August 2021
Leading Oxford climate scientists today insisted there can be no doubt that human-driven climate change is a fact and urgent action is needed, as the IPCC’s report is released showing emissions are driving up temperatures.
Global leaders named as Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellows
AI and data science Computer science Engineering
30 July 2021
Five internationally-recognised researchers have been appointed as the first Turing Artificial Intelligence (AI) World-Leading Researcher Fellows.
New Oxford University research will help optimize environmentally friendly ways of fertilising plants
Biology Food security & biodiversity Plant sciences Research
30 July 2021
New research from the Departments of Plant Sciences and Engineering Science, as well as collaborators at VU Amsterdam, uses both mathematical modelling and experimental validation to study the metabolic processes controlling how bacteria provide ammonia to legumes, which is vastly important for sustainable agriculture.
Alpha variant spread via ‘super-seeding’ event: warning over COVID-19 variants
Biology COVID-19 Zoology
28 July 2021
The COVID-19 Alpha (or Kent) variant is not 80% more transmissible, as was originally thought, according to a new study published by researchers at universities including Oxford. But, they warn, the rapid spread of the variant around the UK last year has major implications for the treatment of other variant outbreaks, because it resulted from multiple ‘exports’. It was, in fact, a major ‘super-seeding’ event, with the variant ‘exported’ numerous times from the large outbreak in the Kent/London area.
Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild – here’s what happened
Biology The Conversation Zoology
22 July 2021
Richard K Broughton from the Department of Zoology writes about the Monks Wood Wilderness experiment in an article on The Conversation.
Ear to the ground: Locating elephants using ground vibrations
Biology Research Zoology
15 July 2021
Researchers from the University of Oxford, Mpala Research Center and Save the Elephants, have used a combination of acoustic microphones and seismometers to locate elephants.
Oxford University collaborate with Formula 1 to increase diversity and inclusion in engineering
Engineering Equality and Diversity
15 July 2021
Oxford University is to collaborate with Formula 1 on a new scholarship to support talented undergraduate engineers from under-represented backgrounds into careers in the motorsports industry.
New network Oxford Cancer launches
14 July 2021
A new pan-divisional initiative has launched at the University of Oxford, bringing together the collective force of cancer research, outreach and care that happen across the city of Oxford.
Oxford researchers develop tool to predict where people go after a disaster
Research Statistics
12 July 2021
Researchers at Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, in collaboration with the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), have developed an open source software package to estimate displaced populations post-disaster, currently with a focus on earthquakes and cyclones.
Oxford University Innovation announces Mairi Gibbs as its new COO
Innovation and Enterprise
12 July 2021
Dr Mairi Gibbs, formerly Head of Operations at Oxford University Innovation (OUI), has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer at OUI, taking the reins from the outgoing Dr Adam Stoten.
Oxford overseas research facility expands to include diagnostics and genetics testing centre
Biomedical engineering COVID-19 Funding Medical science Physical sciences underpinning health Research
8 July 2021
The Oxford-Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research, known as OSCAR, has marked another significant milestone with the launch of OSCAR-Prenetics Innovation and Technology Centre for Advanced Molecular Diagnostics (the OSCAR-Prenetics ITC).
Artificial Intelligence pioneered at Oxford to detect floods launches into space
AI and data science Computer science Engineering Research Space
1 July 2021
A new technology, developed by Oxford researchers, in partnership with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Φ-lab, will pilot the detection of flood events from space. It was deployed on hardware on D-Orbit’s upcoming ‘Wild Ride’ mission being launched by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, 30 June, 20.00 UK time.
Project championing cleaner energy production announced
Business and Industry Energy Engineering Materials science
30 June 2021
The Energy Systems Accelerator pilot (Mini TESA), to be based at Osney Mead in Oxford, is a world-leading multi-disciplinary hub, championing green innovation
New study finds elephants show risk-avoidance behaviour in response to human-generated seismic cues
Biology Research Zoology
30 June 2021
Researchers at the University of Oxford and Save the Elephants have found evidence that African elephants (Loxodonta africana) listen and react to ground vibrations created by human activity.
Oxford scientists show how green mining could pave the way to net zero and provide the metals we need for a sustainable future
Earth sciences Research Sustainability & the environment
30 June 2021
Scientists from the Department of Earth Sciences demonstrate how it is possible to directly extract valuable metals from hot salty fluids (‘brines’) trapped in porous rocks at depths of around 2km below dormant volcanoes.
Botanists name astonishing new species of ‘fairy lantern’ from Malaysian rainforests
Biology Food security & biodiversity Plant sciences Research
29 June 2021
Oxford University scientist, Dr Chris Thorogood, from Oxford Botanic Garden teamed up with Siti-Munirah at the Forest Research Institute Malaysia, and local explorer, Dome Nikong, to describe a strange plant from the depths of the Malaysian rainforest.