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\n \n 5 December 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe collaborative project 'Rapid test for Covid-19' by the University of Oxford and Oxsed Limited clinched the top prize, the 'Outstanding Achievement in Chemical and Process Engineering Award.' The team also secured two additional trophies in the categories of 'Innovative Product Award' and 'Business Start-up Award.'
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new study led by the University of Oxford has shed light on why certain species of bacteria carry astonishing arsenals of weapons. The new findings could help us to engineer microbes that can destroy deadly pathogens, reducing our reliance on antibiotics.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) celebrated the finalists of the 2023 NERC Impact Awards on Wednesday 29th November. Two researchers from the Department of Biology received awards, including Dr Sophus Zu Ermgassen who was the winner of the Early Career category.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA feature article about three Oxford research groups using chemistry to help reach sustainability goals. From solving global plastic pollution to improving the performance of rechargeable batteries found in electric cars, \u2018green chemistry\u2019 is a truly promising topic.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nTwo of those awarded grants are from MPLS Division: Fabrizio Caola, Associate Professor of Theoretical Particle Physics in the Department of Physics, and Aleks Kissinger, Associate Professor of Quantum Computing in the Department of Computer Science.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor Milner-Gulland, who leads three programmes at the Oxford Martin School, has been a conservationist for more than 30 years. But, she maintains, end-of-the-world scare stories will make people fear it is too late, there is nothing they can do, and they will bury their heads in the sand.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nTo mark World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, researchers supported by the Oxford Martin Programme on Antimicrobial Resistance Testing at the University of Oxford have reported advances towards a novel and rapid antimicrobial susceptibility test that can return results within as little as 30 minutes - significantly faster than current gold-standard approaches.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe new study from researchers in the Department of Biology demonstrates that bumblebees are not able to avoid contaminated nectar, putting them at high risk of pesticide exposure and posing a threat to crop pollination.
\n \n\n\n \n 17 November 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nUniversity of Oxford researchers, in partnership with Trillium Technologies\u2019 NIO.space, have developed a tool to automatically detect methane plumes on Earth from orbit using machine learning with hyperspectral data. This could help identify excessive \u2018super emitters\u2019 of methane and enable more effective action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI) has been awarded a Queen\u2019s Anniversary Prize for innovation in autonomous robotic technologies. This prestigious award is the highest national honour available to universities and further education colleges across the UK.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor Deane - who will remain affiliated with the Department of Statistics - is expected to take up the role in January 2024.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAstrophysicists at the University of Oxford have helped to discover a spectacularly bright and unusual explosion in a galaxy 4.4 billion light-years away. Luminous fast blue optical transients are characterized by their intense blue light and are amongst the brightest known optical phenomena in the universe.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessors David Pyle and Tamsin Mather from the Department of Earth Sciences discuss what might happen next in a sequence of seismic events that started in early 2020 in Iceland, and which has so far culminated in three eruptions.
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\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n Antimicrobial resistance\n \n \n\n \n\n\n
\n \n\n \n \n \nAhead of World AMR Awareness Week (18 - 24 November), researchers from the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI) came together to bring to life the dangers of AMR, one of the biggest public health threats facing the world today.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nMore than sixty years after it was last recorded, an expedition team has rediscovered an iconic, egg-laying mammal in one of the most unexplored regions of the world. Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, named after famed broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, was captured for the first time in photos and video footage using remote trail cameras set up in the Cyclops Mountains of Indonesia's Papua Province.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nSCG Chemicals Public Company Limited (SCGC), part of the Siam Cement Group (SCG) and one of the largest integrated chemical companies in Asia, has agreed a major new award scheme to develop novel ideas and nascent research from Oxford\u2019s laboratories into environmental sustainability solutions for the global chemicals industry.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOver 2 days, the UK AI Safety Summit brought together approximately 150 representatives from across the globe including government leaders and ministers, and industry, academia and civil society leaders.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAn opinion piece about the recent AI Safety Summit by Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Computing Science in the Department of Computer Science, Professor John Tasioulas, Director of the University's Institute for Ethics in AI, and H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Landemore, Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe study by researchers in the Department of Biology also concluded that halting deforestation is the single most important mitigation measure Brazil can take towards net zero emissions by 2050 while preventing biodiversity loss.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor Andy Hector (Department of Biology) describes a unique living resource, Wytham Woods, and how this contributes to the distinctive and immersive learning experience for students at Oxford.
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