11 July 2025
\n \n \n \nThe Royal Academy of Engineering has awarded its MacRobert Award 2025 to OrganOx, an Oxford biomedical engineering spinout that has developed two of the most complex medical devices ever designed in the UK.
\n \n\n \n \n10 July 2025
\n \n \n \nThe Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has today announced a \u00a341 million investment (matched with a further \u00a356 million from businesses and academia) for twenty-three new Prosperity Partnerships to tackle key industry challenges. The University of Oxford, in partnership with Fortescue Zero, will lead one of these to develop safer, more reliable, high-performance batteries for industries such as mining, transport, and construction.
\n \n\n \n \n7 July 2025
\n \n \n \nNature-friendly farming budgets are increasing through schemes like the ELM programme \u2013 but could cuts elsewhere undermine overall progress? Professor Nathalie Seddon from the Department of Biology investigates for The Conversation UK.
\n \n\n \n \n4 July 2025
\n \n \n \nA 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.
\n \n\n \n \n1 July 2025
\n \n \n \nTommi 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.
\n \n\n \n \n1 July 2025
\n \n \n \nDepartment 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.
\n \n\n \n \n30 June 2025
\n \n \n \nResearchers 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.
\n \n\n \n \n27 June 2025
\n \n \n \nA 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.
\n \n\n \n \n25 June 2025
\n \n \n \nTwo 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.
\n \n\n \n \n24 June 2025
\n \n \n \nLeading 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.
\n \n\n \n \n24 June 2025
\n \n \n \nThe 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.
\n \n\n \n \n24 June 2025
\n \n \n \nOxford 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.
\n \n\n \n \n23 June 2025
\n \n \n \nDepartment 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.
\n \n\n \n \n17 June 2025
\n \n \n \nThree 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.
\n \n\n \n \n16 June 2025
\n \n \n \nA 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.
\n \n\n \n \n14 June 2025
\n \n \n \nThe 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.
\n \n\n \n \n11 June 2025
\n \n \n \nResearchers 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.
\n \n\n \n \n10 June 2025
\n \n \n \nPhysicists 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.
\n \n\n \n \n6 June 2025
\n \n \n \nDepartment 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.
\n \n\n \n \n4 June 2025
\n \n \n \nScientists 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.
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