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\n \n\n \n31 October 2023
\n \n \n \nBacked by over \u00a315 million funding, the new UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for the Environment (The Intelligent Earth Centre) will combine the University\u2019s strengths in artificial intelligence, machine learning, Big Data, and environmental sciences.
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\n \n\n \n30 October 2023
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford has topped the Times Higher Education world ranking for Computer Science for the sixth consecutive year, in their newly released subject tables. \r\n\r\nThe computer science subject table uses the same trusted and rigorous performance indicators as the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024, but the methodology has been recalibrated to suit the discipline.
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\n \n\n \n26 October 2023
\n \n \n \nDr Sebastian K\u00f6hler is among seven researchers awarded postdoctoral research grants by the Government Office for Science and administered by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The fellowships focus on areas of cutting edge unclassified basic research that can support the intelligence, security and defence communities.
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\n \n\n \n26 October 2023
\n \n \n \nThe first digital atlas showing how the human brain develops in the womb has been published by a global research team led by the University of Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n25 October 2023
\n \n \n \nA new study led by researchers in the Department of Biology has demonstrated that bumblebees make choices while foraging to maximize the rate of energy return, i.e. the amount of nectar sugar collected each minute.
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\n \n\n \n24 October 2023
\n \n \n \nWe are pleased to welcome our first cohort of Optiver Foundation Scholars to Oxford as part of this new international postgraduate scholarship programme for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
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\n \n\n \n20 October 2023
\n \n \n \nIn a paper published today in Nature Photonics, researchers from the University of Oxford, along with collaborators from the Universities of Muenster, Heidelberg, and Exeter, report on their development of integrated photonic-electronic hardware capable of processing three-dimensional (3D) data, substantially boosting data processing parallelism for AI tasks.
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\n \n\n \n19 October 2023
\n \n \n \nAs the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated, viruses can quickly evolve new ways of evading our immune systems, undermining our efforts to control outbreaks. But a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by researchers in the Department of Computer Science and Harvard Medical School could help predict new viral variants before they emerge.
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\n \n\n \n18 October 2023
\n \n \n \nOxford will be the international headquarters for the Breakthrough Listen initiative, the largest ever astronomical programme searching for \u2018technosignatures\u2019 - evidence of past or present technology that would signal the presence of life beyond planet Earth.
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\n \n\n \n17 October 2023
\n \n \n \nA global team of scientists led by researchers in the Department of Physics have announced the results of an unprecedented collaboration to search for the source of the largest ever seismic event recorded on Mars. The study rules out a meteorite impact, suggesting instead that the quake was the result of enormous tectonic forces within Mars\u2019 crust.
\n \n\n \n \n17 October 2023
\n \n \n \nThe 2023 IOP Awards recognise the achievements of individuals and teams in all aspects of physics.
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\n \n\n \n16 October 2023
\n \n \n \nOxford University Innovation (OUI), the research commercialisation office of the University of Oxford, has published its first impact report, which showcases the ripple effect of spinouts, start-ups and social ventures started in Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n16 October 2023
\n \n \n \nLia Yeh, a DPhil student in the Department of Computer Science, is one of 67 doctoral students around the world, and the only one in the UK, to be awarded a 2023 Google PhD Fellowship.
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\n \n\n \n13 October 2023
\n \n \n \nRoss Anderson, Research Fellow in Palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences, suggests a new way to estimate the timing of animal origins: considering which kind of rocks could preserve those animals, rather than documenting the oldest animal fossils.
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\n \n\n \n12 October 2023
\n \n \n \nWine quality is notorious for varying from year to year, but what makes for a \u201cgood year\u201d? A new study has found that weather plays a critically important role in determining wine quality. By analysing 70 years\u2019 worth of wine critic scores from the Bordeaux wine region in relation to that year\u2019s weather, the researchers showed that higher quality wine is made in years with warmer temperatures, higher winter rainfall, and earlier, shorter growing seasons\u2014conditions that climate change is predicted to make more frequent.
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\n \n\n \n12 October 2023
\n \n \n \nThe second year of the Jamies Awards deliver ideas that tackle plastic waste, drug discovery, and bad coffee.
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\n \n\n \n11 October 2023
\n \n \n \nRobert House, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow in the Department of Materials, discusses how shifting from lithium to sodium-ion batteries could reduce dependence on critical minerals and yield cheaper battery packs.
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\n \n\n \n6 October 2023
\n \n \n \nA new study led by the University of Oxford has found that natural evolution of antibiotic resistance genes has maintained resistance in bacteria despite a reduction in the use of antibiotics. The findings demonstrate the importance of understanding the regulatory evolution of resistance genes to strategically combat AMR. The study has been published in the Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME).
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\n \n\n \n5 October 2023
\n \n \n \nA new study led by the Department of Earth Sciences has overturned the view that natural rock weathering acts as a CO2 sink, indicating instead that this can act as a large CO2 source, rivalling that of volcanoes. The results, published today in the journal Nature, have important implications for modelling climate change scenarios.
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\n \n\n \n4 October 2023
\n \n \n \nA breakthrough technique developed by University of Oxford researchers could one day provide tailored repairs for those who suffer brain injuries. The researchers demonstrated for the first time that neural cells can be 3D printed to mimic the architecture of the cerebral cortex.
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