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\n \n\n \n20 July 2023
\n \n \n \nMaitha Al Shimmari, a research student in Oxford's Department of Engineering Science, joins the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center's fifth cohort of leading women under the age of 35 in the fields of energy and climate research.
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\n \n\n \n20 July 2023
\n \n \n \nAn international team involving four University of Oxford researchers has harnessed the exquisite sensitivity of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to achieve the first precise characterisation of interstellar dust during the early stages of the Universe.
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\n \n\n \n14 July 2023
\n \n \n \nThe UK, Switzerland and Norway top the list of countries heading for dramatic increases in uncomfortably hot days - if temperatures break the international 1.5\u00baC target, according to new research from Oxford. But, the researchers maintain, such countries are \u2018dangerously unprepared\u2019.
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\n \n\n \n13 July 2023
\n \n \n \nIn the most comprehensive survey to date, researchers have revealed the scale of plastic pollution on coral reefs, even at great depths. These results, however, suggest promising strategies to better protect these biodiversity hotspots.
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\n \n\n \n12 July 2023
\n \n \n \nA new study from the Department of Biology has revealed that two-fifths of species likely threatened by the international wildlife trade are not covered by the global agreement that regulates it.
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\n \n\n \n12 July 2023
\n \n \n \nA research study led by researchers in the Department of Biology provides a transformational new insight into how antimicrobial resistance (AMR) emerges in patients with bacterial infections which could help develop more effective interventions to prevent AMR infections developing in vulnerable patients.
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\n \n\n \n4 July 2023
\n \n \n \nProfessor Steel is also recipient of the Sir George Macfarlane medal.
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\n \n\n \n3 July 2023
\n \n \n \nSubir Sarkar, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics, on the first view of the Milky Way through particles rather than different wavelengths of light.
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\n \n\n \n28 June 2023
\n \n \n \nA study led by researchers in the Department of Earth Sciences has brought us one step closer to solving a mystery that has puzzled naturalists since Charles Darwin: when did animals first appear in the history of Earth? The results have been published today in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
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\n \n\n \n27 June 2023
\n \n \n \nTogether with colleagues from UEA and the University of the West Indies, researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences will lead 'Sensing Volcanoes', one of the nine flagship exhibits this year.
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\n \n\n \n26 June 2023
\n \n \n \nCoTide is an ambitious \u00a37 million project to help deliver scalable, affordable and sustainable tidal stream energy.
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\n \n\n \n21 June 2023
\n \n \n \nResearchers across the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division (MPLS) have been recognised for their outstanding research impact at the annual MPLS Impact Awards.
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\n \n\n \n16 June 2023
\n \n \n \nScientists in the Department of Chemistry have prepared the first-ever stable compound containing a chemical bond between two beryllium atoms, as described in a paper published in 'Science' and featured in 'New Scientist'.
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\n \n\n \n13 June 2023
\n \n \n \nSix researchers from the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Materials have been honoured in this year's Royal Society of Chemistry Research and Innovation Prizes.
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\n \n\n \n17 May 2023
\n \n \n \nA study published in Geophysical Research Letters shows that the maximum temperature of the hottest days is increasing at twice the rate of the maximum temperature of average summer days. The results highlight the need for urgent action by policy makers to adapt essential infrastructure to the impacts of climate change.
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\n \n\n \n9 May 2023
\n \n \n \nResearchers have created atomically thin artificial neurons capable of processing both light and electric signals for computing.
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\n \n\n \n5 May 2023
\n \n \n \nDr Jani R. Bolla, Department of Biology, has been awarded \u20ac1.5m to support research into the assembly of critical membrane proteins.
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\n \n\n \n25 April 2023
\n \n \n \nResearch led by Dr Craig MacLean, Department of Biology, has shown that overuse of antimicrobials in livestock production can drive the evolution of bacteria more resistant to the first line of the human immune response, and that farmed pigs and chickens could harbour large reservoirs of cross-resistant bacteria.
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\n \n\n \n7 April 2023
\n \n \n \nProfessor Craig MacLean, Professor Tim Coulson and Professor Dame Carol Robinson have all been awarded the prestigious grants recognising ground-breaking projects.
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\n \n\n \n5 April 2023
\n \n \n \nFour of the six selected projects to drive progress towards developing the next generation of batteries involve researchers from the Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences Division.
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