Instead of using their communication networks to transmit warning signals, the Department of Biology led findings suggest it is more likely that plants \u2018eavesdrop\u2019 on their neighbours.
Professor Christl Donnelly and Professor Alain Goriely have been awarded Visiting Miller Professorships at the University of California, Berkeley, in early 2026.
Researchers at The Podium Institute for Sports Medicine and Technology at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, have recruited their first participants for a new study exploring the impact of head injuries on the brains of 11 to 18-year-olds using cutting-edge neuroimaging techniques.
A research team led by the University of Oxford has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems.
The University of Oxford is set to broaden its AI in Science Fellowship Programme through a new initiative supporting early career faculty at African and Indian universities.
The University of Oxford will play a leading role in a new project to develop indicators to measure progress towards globally agreed conservation targets, backed by $1.9 million funding from The Global Environment Facility (GEF).
A new study led by the University of Oxford suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes diverged millions of years ago.
The University of Oxford, in collaboration with The Alan Turing Institute and UK Government, will play a lead role in the newly announced Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR). The \u00a38.22 million government-funded initiative marks a significant step forward in strengthening Britain's cyber resilience.
Four MPLS researchers have been awarded European Research Council Consolidator Grants, part of the EU\u2019s Horizon Europe programme. These grants, totalling \u20ac678 million this year, aim to support outstanding scientists and scholars as they establish their independent research teams and develop their most promising scientific ideas.
A team led by the University of Oxford has solved a mystery that has intrigued scientists for centuries: how does the squirting cucumber squirt? The findings were achieved through a combination of experiments, high-speed videography, image analysis, and advanced mathematical modelling.
Researchers are reporting a previously undocumented behaviour of Ethiopian wolves \u2013 feeding on the nectar of Ethiopian red hot poker flowers \u2013 the first large carnivore species ever to be documented feeding on nectar.
In a new study led by the Department of Physics, an international group of researchers who developed the science behind net zero demonstrate that relying on \u2018natural carbon sinks\u2019 like forests and oceans to offset ongoing CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use will not actually stop global warming.
Four Oxford University academics are to co-lead ambitious new research projects backed by European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grants, part of the EU\u2019s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme.
The University of Oxford, in partnership with five leading institutions, has launched the Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science Landscape Award (ILESLA) \u2013 an ambitious doctoral training programme to prepare a new generation of creative, collaborative, and entrepreneurial researchers.
Leading AI researcher Professor Michael Wooldridge appointed as first Ashall Professor of the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at Oxford, following an endowment to secure the pioneering role.
Launching today, the UN Climate Change Conference for 2024 (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, will bring together around 200 countries to develop renewed plans for addressing climate change
A comprehensive review of the economic impacts of nature-based solutions (NbS), led by the University of Oxford and published this week in PLOS Climate, concludes they can unlock prosperity by boosting local economies, increasing agricultural productivity and creating jobs.
A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Luke Parry (Department of Earth Sciences) have unveiled a spectacular new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod. Besides being an extraordinary-looking new scientific species, the specimens are entirely preserved by fool\u2019s gold.
A ground-breaking, nine-year study has revealed that elephants approaching small-scale farms in Kenya avoid beehive fences housing live honey bees up to 86% of the time during peak crop seasons, helping to reduce human-elephant conflict for local farmers and boost income.
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