28 October 2020
\n \n \n \nPhishAR builds on the work of Professor Ivan Martinovic and Dr Ivo Sluganovic from the Department of Computer Science, and employs augmented reality to crack down on \u201cphishing\u201d.
\n \n\n \n \n27 October 2020
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford\u2019s Department of Zoology has announced it will begin whole genome sequencing of extinct flightless birds, including the dodo and its sister taxa, the Rodrigues solitaire.
\n \n\n \n \n26 October 2020
\n \n \n \nPioneering research, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, into ancient tides during the Late Silurian - Devonian periods (420 million years ago - 380 million years ago), suggests that large tides may have been a key environmental factor in the evolution of bony fish and early tetrapods, the first vertebrate land-dwellers.
\n \n\n \n \n26 October 2020
\n \n \n \nDiogo Ver\u00edssimo from the Department of Zoology writes about his new conservation mobile phone game, 'Kakapo Run', in an article on the Science Blog.
\n \n\n \n \n21 October 2020
\n \n \n \nProfessor Chris Holmes, The Alan Turing Institute\u2019s Programme Director of Health and Medical Science, and Professor of Biostatistics at Oxford University, will co-lead a new Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning Lab.
\n \n\n \n \n21 October 2020
\n \n \n \nNew funding from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) will now extend to 2024 and increase to \u00a322.5 million, to support the REACH programme improve water security by delivering world-class science to transform policy and practice.
\n \n\n \n \n20 October 2020
\n \n \n \nLeading lights at Oxford University paved the way towards Oxford\u2019s goal of global, rapid and equitable access to a safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine by facilitating an innovative public-private agreement for the manufacture and distribution of Oxford\u2019s vaccine, ChAdOx1 nCoV-19.
\n \n\n \n \n19 October 2020
\n \n \n \nA new study, led by the University of Oxford and published today in Nature Sustainability, sets out a framework for delivering sustainable cooling. It also examines cooling needs in the context of sustainable development, and finds that this is a global blind spot.
\n \n\n \n \n19 October 2020
\n \n \n \nOxford Mathematician Heather Harrington has won one of this year's prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prizes. The award recognises the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising.
\n \n\n \n \n16 October 2020
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Christl Donnelly CBE, Professor in the Department of Statistics and Fellow of St Peter's College, who has been awarded the prestigious Frink Medal by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).
\n \n\n \n \n16 October 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Harrington Discovery Institute (HDI) in the US has announced five winners of its inaugural UK Rare Disease Scholar Award competition.
\n \n\n \n \n15 October 2020
\n \n \n \nScientists from the Department of Physics have developed an extremely rapid diagnostic test that detects and identifies viruses in less than five minutes.
\n \n\n \n \n15 October 2020
\n \n \n \nDr Tobias Hermann in the Department of Engineering Science aims to ensure that future spacecraft are able to re-enter the earth\u2019s atmosphere safely despite being exposed to extreme heat.
\n \n\n \n \n13 October 2020
\n \n \n \nCurrently, most of the 4.9 billion tonnes of plastics ever produced will end up in landfills or the natural environment, and this number is expected to increase to around 12 billion tonnes by 2050.
\n \n\n \n \n13 October 2020
\n \n \n \nA team of scientists based in WildCRU at the University of Oxford, well-known for their research involving Cecil the Lion, has teamed up with colleagues in the Department of Computer Science to discover the precise ways in which each lion\u2019s roar is distinct, identifiable and trackable.
\n \n\n \n \n9 October 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Institution of Engineering and Technology has announced 16 Honorary Fellows to mark its 150th year. Professor Stride was awarded the Fellowship in recognition of her contribution to biomedical engineering and research into treatment of major diseases.
\n \n\n \n \n6 October 2020
\n \n \n \nThe 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their work on black holes.
\n \n\n \n \n5 October 2020
\n \n \n \nSmall, close-knit communities are at high risk for rapid, intense COVID outbreaks especially if they haven\u2019t yet experienced outbreaks of COVID-19, shows a new study by the University of Oxford and Northeastern University, Boston.
\n \n\n \n \n5 October 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford COVID-19 (OxCOVID19) database and tracker is a powerful tool for understanding the pandemic and predicting its future course, using the combined power of Statistical, Mathematical Modelling and Machine Learning techniques.
\n \n\n \n \n2 October 2020
\n \n \n \nDr Mbogo got onto the Masters in Computer Science programme at Oxford with a full scholarship through the Shell Centenary Foundation, and is now Dean of the School of Science and Technology at the Kenya Methodist University and the first ever Kenyan to receive the prestigious OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Award earlier this year.
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