21 December 2020
\n \n \n \nUsing the highest resolution satellite imagery currently available, researchers at the University of Oxford Wildlife Conservation Research Unit and Machine Learning Research Group have detected elephants from space with comparable accuracy to human detection capabilities.
\n \n\n \n \n18 December 2020
\n \n \n \nLed by Professor Yee Whye Teh, a team from the Computational Statistics and Machine Learning research group at the Department of Statistics has built a model that monitors the daily spread of the virus locally.
\n \n\n \n \n17 December 2020
\n \n \n \n\n \n \n14 December 2020
\n \n \n \nArtificial Intelligence test has been shown to be able to rapidly screen patients arriving in Emergency Departments for COVID-19
\n \n\n \n \n10 December 2020
\n \n \n \nIn a collaboration between the Department of Zoology\u2019s Mathematical Ecology Research Group and the Future of Humanity Institute, researchers created a mathematical model to simulate the likelihood of the emergence of intelligent observers.
\n \n\n \n \n9 December 2020
\n \n \n \nAn international team of researchers have shown that, while both cities have experienced large epidemics with high mortality, as much as three-quarters of the population in Manaus was infected between March and October, and a third of the population in S\u00e3o Paulo.
\n \n\n \n \n1 December 2020
\n \n \n \nHurricanes, pollution, disease, bleaching and the effects of an increasingly warmer planet are all negatively impacting the health of coral reefs around the world. However, those in the Caribbean are facing a new threat \u2014 an aggressive, golden-brown, crust-like alga that is rapidly overgrowing shallow reefs.
\n \n\n \n \n18 November 2020
\n \n \n \nOxford University is delighted that 52 of its academics have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers\u2122 2020 list from Clarivate. This is the highest number of any institution in the UK and 2nd highest in Europe.
\n \n\n \n \n12 November 2020
\n \n \n \nMore than 50 institutes from 17 countries, including the University of Oxford, have been working over the past five years to develop the science goals and design the instrumentation which will enable Ariel to survey a diverse sample of around 1000 planets outside our own solar system.
\n \n\n \n \n11 November 2020
\n \n \n \nStudies at the Universities of Oxford and Aarhus have revealed how a spider\u2019s regenerated leg movements fit in with the other legs that are of normal length; coordinating complex movements and thread manipulations.
\n \n\n \n \n3 November 2020
\n \n \n \nIn African wildlife conservation, most documented experiences are from southern and south-eastern Africa; countries with well developed \u2018wildlife industries\u2019. Their voices and perspectives are dominant, but a new paper in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution presents divergent perspectives from West, Central and the Horn of Africa.
\n \n\n \n \n3 November 2020
\n \n \n \nDavid Macdonald, Director of WildCRU, writes about the threats to Indochinese tigers in an article on the Science Blog.
\n \n\n \n \n2 November 2020
\n \n \n \nFor the first time, researchers from Oxford\u2019s Departments of Physics and Materials have managed to image hybrid metal halide perovskites with atomic-scale resolution providing new insights into these wonder-materials.
\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 \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 \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 \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 \n29 September 2020
\n \n \n \nLaunched today, The Oxford Principles for Net Zero Aligned Carbon Offsetting (\u2018The Oxford Offsetting Principles\u2019), provide guidelines to help ensure offsetting actually helps to achieve a net zero society.
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