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Scientists from the universities of Oxford, Shanghai and Beijing who discovered that natural silks get stronger the colder they get, have finally solved the puzzle of why.

A silk moth cocoon

Winners announced for Oxford’s Beyond Boundaries art competition to encourage inclusion in STEM sciences

Equality and Diversity Materials science Plant sciences Statistics Zoology

Oxford University has today announced the winners of its science-inspired schools’ art competition Beyond Boundaries which was launched to encourage inclusion in science research

Eight Oxford researchers, including five from MPLS, awarded major European Research Council funding

Chemistry Engineering Funding Plant sciences Zoology

European Research Council grants worth more than €16.3 million have been awarded to University of Oxford researchers for a range of cutting-edge projects.

Oxford Net Zero launches to tackle global carbon emissions

Climate change Earth sciences Physics Plant sciences Zoology

The Oxford Net Zero initiative, launched this week, draws on the university’s world-leading expertise in climate science and policy, addressing the critical issue of how to reach global ‘net zero’ – limiting greenhouse gases – in time to halt global warming.

Hester Cordelia Parsons Fund 2020-21: Call for Applications

Funding Plant sciences Zoology

Applications are invited from members of the University for grants that support the costs of research in experimental biological science.

Botanists unearth new ‘vampire plant’ in UK carpark

Plant sciences Research

Scientists Dr Chris Thorogood at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, and Dr Fred Rumsey at London’s Natural History Museum have just described a new form of a strange parasitic ‘vampire’ plant known as ‘common broomrape’.

Millions of dollars to clean up tuna nets and flip flops from island state

Plant sciences Research

Researchers at Oxford University have estimated that the cost to clean up Aldabra Atoll, one of Seychelles’ UNESCO World Heritage Sites, is approximately $4.68 million, requiring 18,000 person‐hours of labour. This is the largest accumulation of plastic waste reported for any single island in the world.

MPLS researchers awarded 2020 Royal Society Research Fellowships

Award Chemistry Maths Physics Plant sciences

Oxford teams up with The Royal Horticultural Society to develop innovative plant data management

Plant sciences

The University of Oxford has embarked on a new project with The Royal Horticultural Society, the UK’s gardening charity, to make information about plants more readily available to everyone with an interest in gardens and garden plants.

Branching out for a new green revolution

Plant sciences Research

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 rice.

Rice to feed the world given a funding boost

Plant sciences Research

Research led by Oxford University into revolutionising global rice production has been given a $15 million funding boost by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Engineering new signalling networks to produce crops that need less fertiliser

Plant sciences Research

An interdisciplinary research collaboration between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge has engineered a novel synthetic plant-microbe signalling pathway that could provide the foundation for transferring nitrogen fixation to cereals.

Ant farmers boost plant nutrition with their faeces, offering clues for future food security

Plant sciences Research

Humans began cultivating crops about 12,000 years ago. Ants have been at it rather longer. Leafcutter ants, the best-known insect farmers, belong to a lineage of insects that have been running fungus farms based on chopped-up vegetable matter for over 50 million years. The ant farming of flowering plants, however, started more recently, about 3 million years ago in the Fiji Islands.

Ash dieback is predicted to cost £15 billion in Britain

Plant sciences Research

A team of researchers from the University of Oxford, Fera Science, Sylva Foundation and the Woodland Trust has calculated the true economic cost of Ash dieback – and the predictions are staggering.

MPLS academics appointed to the Academy of Medical Sciences and to the US National Academy of Sciences

Award Chemistry Engineering Plant sciences

Oxford students and Seychellois volunteers team up for an epic beach-clean mission

Materials science Plant sciences Zoology

A group of Oxford graduate students is spending five weeks taking part in the Aldabra Clean-Up Project – an ambitious collaboration between the University of Oxford and the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF).

Discovery of a new pathway that may help develop more resilient crop varieties

Plant sciences Research

Researchers from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, have discovered a new biochemical pathway in plants which they have named CHLORAD.

University announces design team and funding for new science building

Medical science Plant sciences Zoology

Oxford University has today announced the design team and funding arrangements for a major new building.

Oxford iGEM team wins gold medal for fifth year running

Award Chemistry Engineering Medical science Plant sciences Zoology

The 2018 Undergraduate Oxford iGEM team have just returned from Boston with a Gold medal and the award for Best Therapeutics Project along with three other award nominations.

A new scholarship fund for the next generation of plant scientists

Funding Plant sciences

The University of Oxford is delighted to announce that the John Oldacre Foundation has renewed its commitment to the work of Oxford’s Department of Plant Sciences by pledging £1,000,000 to support DPhil (PhD) scholarship provision in perpetuity.

Getting to the root of plant evolution

Plant sciences Research

Despite plants and vegetation being key to the Earth’s ecosystem, little is known about the origin of their roots. However in new research, published in Nature, Oxford University scientists describe a transitional root fossil, from the earliest land ecosystem, that sheds light on how roots have evolved.

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Science Blog: Young male fruit flies make females fight each other more

Research Zoology

Dr Ellie Bath, Department of Zoology, writes about research to test whether age, mating history, and feeding status shape an important, but understudied, post-mating response – increased female-female aggression.

The ocean urgently needs truly collaborative science between partners - Oxford scientists

Research Zoology

To ensure a prosperous ocean now and in the future, marine research must offer clear recommendations based on representative information and demonstrate practical pathways, according to new research from Oxford University, the charity Nekton and the Seychelles Environment Ministry.

Researchers say we don’t know how most mammals will respond to climate change

Climate change Zoology

Researchers at the University of Oxford, alongside international collaborators, have found that there is a significant knowledge gap in the risks posed by climate change to mammals.

Scientists confirm bacteria’s genetic ‘Swiss army knife’ is key driver of antibiotic resistance

Zoology

Antibiotic resistance is a huge challenge facing society globally, posing a threat not only to human health but in areas such as food security and the economy. The more we know about the mechanisms behind antibiotic resistance, the better we can respond to these threats.

One of the world’s most secretive mammals photographed in WildCRU’s Togo survey

Research Zoology

Researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) have confirmed that they have captured the first ever images of Walter’s duiker (Philantomba walteri) alive in the wild.

African elephants only occupy a fraction of their potential range

Research Zoology

Many wildlife species are threatened by shrinking habitat. But according to new research from the Department of Zoology, the potential range of African elephants could be more than five times larger than its current extent.

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Science Blog: Young male fruit flies make females fight each other more

Research Zoology

Dr Ellie Bath, Department of Zoology, writes about research to test whether age, mating history, and feeding status shape an important, but understudied, post-mating response – increased female-female aggression.

The ocean urgently needs truly collaborative science between partners - Oxford scientists

Research Zoology

To ensure a prosperous ocean now and in the future, marine research must offer clear recommendations based on representative information and demonstrate practical pathways, according to new research from Oxford University, the charity Nekton and the Seychelles Environment Ministry.

Researchers say we don’t know how most mammals will respond to climate change

Climate change Zoology

Researchers at the University of Oxford, alongside international collaborators, have found that there is a significant knowledge gap in the risks posed by climate change to mammals.

Scientists confirm bacteria’s genetic ‘Swiss army knife’ is key driver of antibiotic resistance

Zoology

Antibiotic resistance is a huge challenge facing society globally, posing a threat not only to human health but in areas such as food security and the economy. The more we know about the mechanisms behind antibiotic resistance, the better we can respond to these threats.

One of the world’s most secretive mammals photographed in WildCRU’s Togo survey

Research Zoology

Researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) have confirmed that they have captured the first ever images of Walter’s duiker (Philantomba walteri) alive in the wild.

African elephants only occupy a fraction of their potential range

Research Zoology

Many wildlife species are threatened by shrinking habitat. But according to new research from the Department of Zoology, the potential range of African elephants could be more than five times larger than its current extent.