30 September 2021
\n \n \n \nThirty-three University of Oxford researchers have been named Turing Fellows for the 2021/22 academic year. 23 of the fellows come from MPLS departments.
\n \n\n \n \n28 September 2021
\n \n \n \nRock samples collected during the final manned mission to the Moon have turned out to be critical for a study nearly 50 years later.
\n \n\n \n \n23 September 2021
\n \n \n \nAn article by Dr Steve Smith, executive director of the Oxford Net Zero Initiative and the CO2RE hub, which is focussed on greenhouse gas removal.
\n \n\n \n \n30 June 2021
\n \n \n \nScientists from the Department of Earth Sciences demonstrate how it is possible to directly extract valuable metals from hot salty fluids (\u2018brines\u2019) trapped in porous rocks at depths of around 2km below dormant volcanoes.
\n \n\n \n \n14 May 2021
\n \n \n \nTo date, astronomers have identified more than 4,000 confirmed exoplanets but only a fraction have the potential to sustain life. Now, new research is using the geology of early planet formation to help identify those that may be capable of supporting life.
\n \n\n \n \n7 May 2021
\n \n \n \nRoger Benson, Professor of Palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences, and colleagues Lars Schmitz at Scripps College and Jonah Choiniere at the University of the Witwatersrand write about their new research into nocturnal dinosaurs.
\n \n\n \n \n6 May 2021
\n \n \n \nA recent article published in the journal Nature Geoscience has highlighted the shocking under-representation of students from ethnic minority backgrounds in the Geosciences. Ben Fernando writes about a new paper that lays out steps to address this diversity crisis and make the discipline more equitable.
\n \n\n \n \n27 April 2021
\n \n \n \nA key type of zooplankton\u2019s inability to adapt to climate change could have adverse implications for marine food chains across the world if a severe global warming event were to occur, researchers at Oxford University have found.
\n \n\n \n \n26 April 2021
\n \n \n \nFour Oxford academics have received major European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants to fund a range of boundary-pushing research projects in the areas of science and criminology.
\n \n\n \n \n15 February 2021
\n \n \n \nBen Fernando (Departments of Earth Sciences and Physics) writes about using the Insight mission to detect seismic signals during the landing of Perseverance - the first time that anyone has tried using a spacecraft on the surface of another planet to detect another spacecraft arriving.
\n \n\n \n \n17 November 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Net Zero initiative, launched this week, draws on the university\u2019s world-leading expertise in climate science and policy, addressing the critical issue of how to reach global \u2018net zero\u2019 \u2013 limiting greenhouse gases \u2013 in time to halt global warming.
\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 \n23 April 2020
\n \n \n \nResearch carried out at Oxford, in collaboration with Columbia University and Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary University of London, has revealed that the signature of metal ions present in urine samples is an accurate indicator of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), one of the deadliest types of cancer.
\n \n\n \n \n9 April 2020
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