A new collaborative study, led by researchers from the Department of Biology, finds that hedgerows, small copses and even individual trees can significantly increase the number of butterflies in farmed landscapes.
Tommi Anttonen from the Department of Biology explores newly published research indicating that mice do more than just feel their way around with their whiskers \u2013 they also use them to 'listen' to their environment.
Department of Biology research on animal seismic senses will be featured at the Royal Society\u2019s annual free celebration of world-leading science. The Summer Science Exhibition runs from 1-6 July 2025 at the Royal Society in London.
Researchers at Oxford will collaborate with Cardiff University, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Imperial College London and Newcastle University. The Oxford team spans the Department of Engineering Science and Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences.
A new study from researchers in the University of Oxford\u2019s Department of Computer Science has found that Uber\u2019s use of dynamic pricing has led to higher fares for passengers and lower earnings for drivers, while increasing Uber\u2019s share of revenue.
Two MPLS researchers have won 2025 Royal Society of Chemistry Prizes for their work on clean energy technologies, while an Oxford-led collaboration also received a Horizon Prize for sustainable chemical manufacturing.
Leading academics from Oxford, Imperial College London, Loughborough, and King's College London launched a \u00a39.5M hydrogen-powered jet engine programme at Oxford's Thermofluids Institute earlier this month. The EPSRC-backed project aims to achieve net-zero aviation emissions by 2050.
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory represents a step change in researchers\u2019 ability to study the cosmos. Scientists from the Department of Physics helped to make the progress possible through more than a decade of sustained involvement.
Oxford University's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division has welcomed enthusiastic Year 5 students from local state primary schools for two days packed with exciting, hands-on science workshops.
Department of Engineering Science DPhil student Honora Driscoll has been named in the Women's Engineering Society's Top 50 Women in Engineering awards 2025, announced today for International Women in Engineering Day.
Three researchers from the MPLS Division have been awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council, each worth up to \u20ac2.5 million over a period of five years.
A new study led by researchers at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester has achieved a major advance in quantum materials, developing a method to precisely engineer single quantum defects in diamond \u2013 an essential step toward scalable quantum technologies.
The King's Birthday Honours 2025 Lists have been published, marking the achievements and service of extraordinary people across the UK, including members of the MPLS Division and wider University.
Researchers from the Department of Statistics and the Nuffield Department of Medicine are among the senior principal investigators on a \u00a38 million government-backed consortium creating the world's largest dataset for training machine learning models in drug discovery.
Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new global benchmark for the accuracy of controlling a single quantum bit, achieving the lowest-ever error rate for a quantum logic operation \u2013 just 0.000015%, or one error in 6.7 million operations.
Department of Biology researchers have contributed to an international study which found that dehorning rhinos resulted in a drastic reduction in poaching of these endangered animals. The findings have been published this week in the journal Science.
Scientists could turn to black holes to aid the search for dark matter and similarly elusive particles that hold clues to the universe\u2019s deepest secrets, a new study by Oxford physicists suggests.
Using a brand-new type of satellite altimetry, a study led by the Department of Engineering Science has finally confirmed the theory that the cause of extraordinary global tremors in September\u2013October 2023 were two mega tsunamis in Greenland that became trapped standing waves.
Researchers in the Department of Biology and Wild Bioscience Ltd are to receive backing of a \u00a36.7 million grant from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) to pioneer a new synthetic biology approach which promises to improve yields in potato and wheat.
A collaborative research study has developed a powerful new technique for finding the next generation of materials needed for large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing with the potential to end a decades-long search for inexpensive materials that can host unique quantum particles.
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