SCIENCE BLOG: Seeding a new 'Green Revolution'
Researchers at the University of Oxford and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a new gene that improves the yield and fertilizer use efficiency of cereal crops such as wheat and rice.
Read moreBetter sleep linked with family tree strength
The question of why we sleep has been a longstanding subject of debate, with some theories suggesting that slumber provides respite for the brain, which allows it to filter out insignificant neural connections, build new ones, strengthen memories and even repair itself. However, new Oxford University research has used mathematical approaches to tackle the adaptive significance of sleep, and suggests that it has another equally significant purpose - boosting our ‘fitness’ and future family line reproductive success.
Read moreOxford researchers honoured by Royal Society
Three researchers, including two from MPLS, have received prestigious awards from the Royal Society in recognition of their work in the fields of science and medicine.
Read moreVice-Chancellor’s Innovation Awards champion high-impact research
Oxford University has celebrated high-impact research with the first Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation Awards. MPLS researchers were among those recognised.
Read more17 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.
Read moreWelcome
We are home to the mathematical, physical, engineering and life sciences at Oxford. Our research is the best of its kind in the country according to the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, which is used to assess university research across the UK.
Research income for 2015/16 £135m
1730 academics and researchers
3000 graduate students (DPhil and MSc)
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Find out more about the Division's commitment to equality and diversity.
What's new
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SCIENCE BLOG: Seeding a new 'Green Revolution'
16 August 2018
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Making sunlight liquid – a brief history of sunflowers
14 August 2018
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Better sleep linked with family tree strength
7 August 2018
Upcoming events
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EIT Health Active Ageing Oxford Summer School
Monday, 03 September 2018 to Friday, 21 September 2018
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Cryogenic Engineering & Materials Conference in Oxford
Monday, 03 September 2018 to Friday, 07 September 2018
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