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\n \n\n \n9 December 2021
\n \n \n \nEstimates of COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the USA based on large surveys that are used to guide policy-making decisions tend to overestimate the number of vaccinated individuals, research published in Nature suggests.
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\n \n\n \n9 December 2021
\n \n \n \nAs part of their research project Amanda Matthes and Jonas Beuchert, supervised by Professor Alex Rogers, developed \u2018SnapperGPS\u2019, a low-cost, low-power wildlife tracking system based on satellite navigation. In summer 2021, they deployed it for the first time on wild animals: endangered loggerhead sea turtles in Cape Verde.
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\n \n\n \n7 December 2021
\n \n \n \nResearchers at the University of Oxford uncover the importance of iron for the development of complex life on Earth \u2013 which also may hint at the likelihood of complex life on other planets.
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\n \n\n \n2 December 2021
\n \n \n \nFor the first time, mathematicians have partnered with artificial intelligence to suggest and prove new mathematical theorems.
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\n \n\n \n23 November 2021
\n \n \n \nIslands are biodiversity hotspots yet, paradoxically, are also extinction hotspots.
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\n \n\n \n19 November 2021
\n \n \n \nMars explorers searching for signs of ancient life could be fooled by fossil-like specimens created by chemical processes, research suggests.
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\n \n\n \n19 November 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) celebrated its third anniversary on Wednesday 17 November.
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\n \n\n \n16 November 2021
\n \n \n \nMethod will allow researchers and wildlife conservationists to significantly cut back on time and resources spent analysing animal behaviour in video footage.
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\n \n\n \n9 November 2021
\n \n \n \nThe HumBug project has developed methods to detect and identify different species of mosquitoes using the acoustic signature (sound) of their flight tones, captured on an inexpensive smartphone.
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\n \n\n \n4 November 2021
\n \n \n \nOxford chemists have made a breakthrough towards successfully producing sustainable aviation fuel directly from air (CO2 source) and water (H2 source).
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\n \n\n \n3 November 2021
\n \n \n \nNew software can help determine the movements of large wild animals, thereby minimising conflicts with people.
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\n \n\n \n2 November 2021
\n \n \n \nTaking an unconventional approach, a team of researchers from the University of Oxford\u2019s Advanced Nanoscale Engineering group have been inspired by the ancient art of Calligraphy to develop a technique that has the theoretical capabilities of patterning atomically thin structures at the nanoscale.
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\n \n\n \n20 October 2021
\n \n \n \nNew research from the University of Oxford, in collaboration with 15 other institutions and NGOs around the globe, outlines the opportunities and challenges associated with organising virtual meetings.
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\n \n\n \n30 September 2021
\n \n \n \nAMR could render many of the current mainstay and last-resort antibiotics useless, resulting in many more deaths from previously treatable infections. In 2019, a UN report estimated that drug-resistant microbes could lead to ten million deaths per year, and cost the world $100trn, by 2050.
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\n \n\n \n28 September 2021
\n \n \n \nNew research has revealed that shifts in the timing of egg laying by great tits in response to climate change vary markedly between breeding sites within the same woodland and that this variation is linked to the health of nearby oak trees.
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\n \n\n \n28 September 2021
\n \n \n \nRecent research (joint between the University of Oxford, Rockefeller University, and Princeton University) has found that the way tardigrades coordinate their 'walking' motion mirrors the stepping patterns of larger panarthropods such as stick insects and spiders.
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\n \n\n \n28 September 2021
\n \n \n \nRock samples collected during the final manned mission to the Moon have turned out to be critical for a study nearly 50 years later.
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\n \n\n \n27 September 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Moon\u2019s polar regions are home to craters and other depressions that never receive sunlight. Permanently shadowed lunar craters contain water ice but are difficult to image. An AI algorithm now provides sharper images, allowing us to see into them with high resolution for the first time.
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\n \n\n \n27 September 2021
\n \n \n \nProfessor Scotland has spent more than three decades at Oxford on painstaking research, in the tradition of Darwin and other monographers, working out the taxonomy of plant species to discover what exists, where are they found and how are they related.
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\n \n\n \n17 September 2021
\n \n \n \nAn international collaboration of 29 scientists around the world has focused on understanding how SARS-COV-2 makes its worker proteins at the molecular level in order to develop novel antiviral drugs that block their production.
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