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\n \n\n \n \n \nNew AI uses associative learning techniques rather than AI\u2019s traditional neural networks to challenge the conventional wisdom that artificial neurons and synapses are the sole building blocks of AI.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFourth-year student Anahy Mercado Zambrana has been recognised with an upReach Student Social Mobility Award, awarded annually to ten students from lower socio-economic backgrounds, across the UK, who have excelled in their studies and show great potential for their future careers.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new social network analysis of female wild red deer on the Isle of Rum in Scotland, carried out by a multidisciplinary team led by researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, reveals that ageing deer tend to adopt a life of solitude in their advancing years.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor Rosalind Rickaby, Chair of Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences, takes a look at the way climate has naturally fluctuated over geological time, and compares that with the situation we face today, where climate change is disrupting this natural order and posing significant challenges such as extreme heatwaves.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA profile of Professor Byron Byrne in the Department of Engineering Science. In 2021, Professor Byron Byrne was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of his research contributions to offshore wind.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA gift of \u00a3110,000 from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is enabling the creation of two new scholarships for students from developing countries accepted onto the University\u2019s Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) in Environmental Research.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nNew funding will drive the creation and growth of transformational businesses built on ground-breaking Oxford research.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nEngineering students were amongst those involved in a team of 50 students from across the University who worked together to build an electric car showcased at the IMechE Formula Student event held at the home of British Motor Racing, earlier this month.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA collaboration between Earth Sciences palaeobiologists from the University of Oxford and University College London has shed new light on one of the earliest-known salamanders, from a rock first discovered in the 1970s.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford biologists are part of an international team that has been modelling the cancer-suppressing p53 gene to identify how 20 different molecules unique to elephants are activated for increased sensitivity and response against carcinogenic conditions \u2013 with implications for cancer treatments in humans.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nMembers of MPLS departments were amongst those recognised at the University's seventh Environmental Sustainability Awards today, hosted by Vice Chancellor, Dame Professor Louise Richardson.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nEleven MPLS researchers have been recognised in this year\u2019s MPLS Impact Awards, which showcase research impact across the division and help us to identify examples of impact excellence that will help us to prepare the ground for future Research Excellence Framework (REF) submissions and similar exercises.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe new investment in Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a spin-out company from the Department of Physics, will accelerate the company\u2019s research and development and fuel its expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. The Series A investment funding is the largest ever secured in the UK by a quantum computing start-up.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor James Maynard has been named one of four recipients of the 2022 Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics for those under 40.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nTen years ago, on 4 July 2012, an international collaboration of particle physicists announced to the world that they had independently observed a new particle \u2013 the Higgs boson. Oxford physicists were key contributors to the discovery and have continued to play a leading role in Higgs-boson research ever since.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThree Oxford Mathematicians, John Ball, Ian Griffiths and Dawid Kielak, have won prizes from the London Mathematical Society (LMS) today.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDNA testing reveals that rock doves, the wild ancestors of the common domestic and feral pigeons, now extinct in many parts of the world, are still living on islands in Scotland and Ireland.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford Chemistry students with innovative, game-changing ideas have been highlighted at the inaugural Jamie Ferguson Chemistry Innovation Awards ('The Jamies'), a new annual awards scheme co-developed by the Department of Chemistry and Oxford University Innovation (OUI) in honour of the late Dr Jamie Ferguson.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford biomechanics researchers have been using computer simulations and Hollywood-style motion capture to reveal how Harris hawks optimise their landing manoeuvres for an accurate descent.
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