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« Back to NewsExtremely hot days are warming twice as fast as average summer days in North-West Europe
17 May 2023
Physics Research The Conversation
A 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.
From The Conversation: Learn to think like a plant
5 May 2023
Learn to think like a plant: five questions to think about if you want to keep your houseplants healthy.
From The Conversation: ‘Statistically impossible’ heat extremes are here – we identified the regions most at risk
26 April 2023
Climate Physics The Conversation
Nicholas Leach, Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Predictability of Weather and Climate group, Department of Physics, writes about the Pacific Northwest heatwave of 2021 and what it says about the probability of extreme heatwave events.
From The Conversation: Snailfish – the ‘impossible’ fish that shows the importance of ocean exploration
21 April 2023
Dr Paris Stefanoudis from the Department of Biology discusses the importance of ocean exploration and the snailfish which has broken the record for living at the deepest ocean depths known to humanity.
From The Conversation: How extreme weather threatens to bring down UK’s power lines and halt supply to homes
21 April 2023
Climate Energy Physics The Conversation
Matthew Wright, DPhil student in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics at the Department of Physics, writes about the need to ensure the UK’s energy system is prepared for and resilient to future weather extremes.
From The Conversation: Do we really need a theory of everything?
12 April 2023
Professor Vlatko Vedral from the Department of Physics contributes to a podcast discussing the need for a theory that unites quantum mechanics and general relativity, and whether we are anywhere near achieving that goal.
From The Conversation: Grey seals are returning to UK waters – but their situation remains precarious
6 April 2023
Dr Katrina Davis, Department of Biology, highlights the importance of understanding the impact of future threats including climate change, more renewable energy infrastructure and disease outbreak.
From The Conversation: Great Mysteries of Physics 4: does objective reality exist?
29 March 2023
Physics Quantum The Conversation
Chiara Marletto from the Department of Physics talks to The Conversation about constructor theory, a generalisation of the quantum theory of information.
From The Conversation: Great Mysteries of Physics 1 – is time an illusion?
8 March 2023
Engineering Physics The Conversation
Listen to Natalia Ares, a thermodynamics researcher in the Department of Engineering Science on the Great Mysteries of Physics podcast from The Conversation.
From The Conversation: Bird flu continues to spread in mammals – what this means for humans and wildlife
13 February 2023
Biology Research The Conversation
'As bird flu continues to decimate poultry and wild bird populations around the world, the virus – a deadly strain called H5N1 – appears to be spreading to mammals', writes Divya Venkatesh, BBSRC Discovery Fellow in the Department of Biology.
From The Conversation: Deep sea reefs are spectacular and barely-explored – they must be conserved
26 January 2023
Biology Research Sustainability & the environment The Conversation
Largely hidden from the masses lie great expanses of deep reefs, which collectively have a larger geographic footprint than their shallower counterparts.
From The Conversation: Fossil study brings us one step closer to revealing how ‘flying dinosaurs’ took flight
17 January 2023
Earth sciences The Conversation
New study places Schleromochlus closer to the origin of pterosaurs than other lagerpetids, providing a reference point for research into pterosaur development.
From The Conversation: Elephant poaching rates vary across Africa - 19 years of data from 64 sites suggest why
11 January 2023
Timothy Kuiper (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cape Town) and EJ Milner-Gulland (Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity, Department of Biology) explore what varying poaching rates can tell us about what drives, motivates and facilitates poaching.
From The Conversation: UN biodiversity conference: what does living in harmony with nature look like?
20 December 2022
Biology Food security & biodiversity The Conversation
Senior Research Fellow Dr Alexandra Zimmermann from the Department of Biology writes about the complexities of resolving human-wildlife conflict and achieving coexistence.
From The Conversation: Nuclear fusion may still be decades away
19 December 2022
Nuclear fusion and the hope of a source of clean, abundant energy may still be decades away, but the latest breakthrough could speed up its development.
From The Conversation: Shark fishing is a global problem that demands local solutions
12 December 2022
Biology Research The Conversation
Hollie Booth, Oxford Policy Engagement Network Post-doc Fellow in the Department of Biology, writes about her research into ways to reduce catches of threatened shark species that also support the rights and welfare of small-scale fishers.
From The Conversation: Air pollution cools climate more than expected – this makes cutting carbon emissions more urgent
16 November 2022
Climate Physics The Conversation
Air pollutants in the form of tiny particles suspended in air kill around seven million people every year, but also have a buffering effect on climate change. By Peter Manshausen, Duncan Watson-Parris and Philip Stier from the Department of Physics.
From The Conversation: The danger of advanced artificial intelligence controlling its own feedback
24 October 2022
AI and data science Engineering Research The Conversation
'How would an artificial intelligence (AI) decide what to do?', asks Oxford DPhil candidate in Engineering Science, Michael K Cohen, and his co-author Marcus Hutter from the Australian National University, in this article which highlights the potential risks of relying on the 'reinforcement learning' approach in AI research.
Noise in the brain enables us to make extraordinary leaps of imagination. It could transform the power of computers too
20 October 2022
Climate Physics The Conversation
Professor Tim Palmer, Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Physics, discusses how noise can improve the accuracy of climate models, and how noise in the brain is the key to creativity, in an article first published on the Conversation.
Elephant conservation may be undermined by Twitter users who overlook main threats
18 October 2022
An article first published on the Conversation by Amy Dickman, Professor of Wildlife Conservation in the Department of Biology, and colleagues Niall Hammond from Griffith University and Duan Biggs at Northern Arizona University.