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\n \n\n \n \n \nTubes combining silk from silkworms and spiders can act as novel type of nerve guide.
\n \n\n\n \n 28 March 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nNew research led by the Department of Biology has revealed that the most endangered turtle and crocodile species are those that are most unique. Their loss could have widespread impacts on the ecosystems they live in since they carry out critical processes important for many other species.
\n \n\n\n \n 20 March 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new study involving Department of Computer Science researchers has found that artificial intelligence could accelerate the search for extraterrestrial life by showing the most promising places to look.
\n \n\n\n \n 15 March 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe antibiotic colistin is being widely used to prevent infections and promote growth in animals grown for human consumption such as poultry.
\n \n\n\n \n 10 March 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new technique developed by researchers in the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford could help locate new deposits of critical metals needed to enable the green-energy transition.
\n \n\n\n \n 8 March 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe annual STEM for BRITAIN competition gives early-career researchers an opportunity to present their work directly to Members of Parliament and other UK policy makers.
\n \n\n\n \n 3 March 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearch led by Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences offers a new model to account for the existence of previously unexplained helium-rich reservoirs, with findings that could help overturn the current supply crisis of the gas by locating untapped reservoirs of accessible helium.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers from the University of Oxford have contributed to a major international study which has captured a rare and fascinating space phenomenon.
\n \n\n\n \n 1 March 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Future Communications Hub on All Spectrum Connectivity is being supported by investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in a project led by Professor Dominic O\u2019Brien (Department of Engineering Science).
\n \n\n\n \n 16 February 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers have used nearly half a million fossils to solve a 200-year-old scientific mystery: why the number of different species is greatest near the equator and decreases steadily towards polar regions.
\n \n\n\n \n 13 February 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n'As bird flu continues to decimate poultry and wild bird populations around the world, the virus \u2013 a deadly strain called H5N1 \u2013 appears to be spreading to mammals', writes Divya Venkatesh, BBSRC Discovery Fellow in the Department of Biology.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAssociate Professor Patrick Rebeschini, in the Department of Statistics, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant worth \u20ac2 million, to develop theoretical foundations that could advance machine learning methods used to analyse Big Data.
\n \n\n\n \n 6 February 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA local collaboration teaming researchers from the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University with the Urban Music Foundation finished on a high note with an immersive sound and art installation at Oxford\u2019s Old Fire Station.
\n \n\n\n \n 3 February 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDART (Dengue Advanced Readiness Tools) is a new, Oxford-led project involving scientists around the world, and one of 24 Wellcome-supported projects that will use climate data to better predict and prepare for infectious diseases outbreaks.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new study led by researchers at the Department of Computer Science has found that, between 2021 and 2022, COVID-19 was a leading cause of death in children and young people in the United States, ranking eighth overall.
\n \n\n\n \n 26 January 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nLargely hidden from the masses lie great expanses of deep reefs, which collectively have a larger geographic footprint than their shallower counterparts.
\n \n\n\n \n 24 January 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nInspired by jumping insects, researchers from the Mathematical Institute have helped develop a miniature robot capable of leaping more than 40 times its body length- equivalent to a human jumping up to the 20th floor of a building. The innovation could be a major step forward in developing microrobots for a wide range of applications.
\n \n\n\n \n 19 January 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new high-resolution model to quantify the sources of plastic debris accumulating on beaches across the Seychelles and other island states in the western Indian Ocean reveals that most of this waste originates from distant sources and not from the islands themselves.
\n \n\n\n \n 18 January 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearch staff and academics across the Division have been recognised as winners of the inaugural MPLS Awards for Outstanding Research Supervision, announced today.
\n \n\n\n \n 13 January 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nClimate change could be constrained by implementation of policies to ensure fossil fuel producers pay for carbon clear-up, or capture, according to new Oxford-led research, published in Environmental Research Letters.
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