15 November 2024
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford, in partnership with five leading institutions, has launched the Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science Landscape Award (ILESLA) \u2013 an ambitious doctoral training programme to prepare a new generation of creative, collaborative, and entrepreneurial researchers.
\n \n\n \n \n15 November 2024
\n \n \n \nLeading AI researcher Professor Michael Wooldridge appointed as first Ashall Professor of the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at Oxford, following an endowment to secure the pioneering role.
\n \n\n \n \n11 November 2024
\n \n \n \nLaunching today, the UN Climate Change Conference for 2024 (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, will bring together around 200 countries to develop renewed plans for addressing climate change
\n \n\n \n \n31 October 2024
\n \n \n \nA comprehensive review of the economic impacts of nature-based solutions (NbS), led by the University of Oxford and published this week in PLOS Climate, concludes they can unlock prosperity by boosting local economies, increasing agricultural productivity and creating jobs.
\n \n\n \n \n31 October 2024
\n \n \n \nA team of researchers led by Associate Professor Luke Parry (Department of Earth Sciences) have unveiled a spectacular new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod. Besides being an extraordinary-looking new scientific species, the specimens are entirely preserved by fool\u2019s gold.
\n \n\n \n \n30 October 2024
\n \n \n \nA ground-breaking, nine-year study has revealed that elephants approaching small-scale farms in Kenya avoid beehive fences housing live honey bees up to 86% of the time during peak crop seasons, helping to reduce human-elephant conflict for local farmers and boost income.
\n \n\n \n \n29 October 2024
\n \n \n \nA team led by researchers from the Department of Chemistry have made a significant step towards realising miniature, soft batteries for use in a variety of biomedical applications, including the defibrillation and pacing of heart tissues.
\n \n\n \n \n11 October 2024
\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Department of Earth Sciences have shown that weathering of rocks in the Canadian Arctic will accelerate with rising temperatures, triggering a positive feedback loop that will release more and more CO2 to the atmosphere.
\n \n\n \n \n9 October 2024
\n \n \n \nA new University-wide network on antimicrobial resistance aims to generate novel research and collaborations to tackle one of the most urgent global health threats. The new Oxford AMR Network will unite researchers across the life sciences, medical and social sciences, and humanities.
\n \n\n \n \n24 September 2024
\n \n \n \nInstead of nurturing their sick young, ant queens eat their infected offspring at the first sign of illness then \u2018recycle\u2019 them into producing new eggs, a new study led by the University of Oxford has shown.
\n \n\n \n \n18 September 2024
\n \n \n \nA new study led by researchers from the Department of Biology and the Oxford Martin Programme on Wildlife Trade concludes that the proposed UK Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill could cause more harm than good for the species it is intended to protect.
\n \n\n \n \n12 September 2024
\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Mathematical Institute and Budapest University of Technology and Economics have uncovered a new class of shapes that tile space without using sharp corners. Remarkably, these \u2019ideal soft shapes\u2019 are found abundantly in nature \u2013 from sea shells to muscle cells.
\n \n\n \n \n29 August 2024
\n \n \n \nThe research describes a first-of-its-kind method capable of distinguishing authentic and falsified vaccines by applying machine learning to mass spectral data. The method proved effective in differentiating between a range of authentic and \u2018faked\u2019 vaccines previously found to have entered supply chains.
\n \n\n \n \n12 August 2024
\n \n \n \nScientists in the Department of Physics have developed a method for generating increasing amounts of solar electricity without the need for silicon-based solar panels by coating a new power-generating material onto the surfaces of everyday objects such as rucksacks, cars, and mobile phones.
\n \n\n \n \n6 August 2024
\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on Wildlife Trade at the University of Oxford have demonstrated that patent data could provide a novel source of evidence that can help identify future commercial trends associated with the overharvesting of wildlife.
\n \n\n \n \n2 August 2024
\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Department of Materials, along with collaborators from Muenster, Heidelberg, and Ghent show that replacing lasers with less complex light sources can surprisingly boost performance in some optical applications, such as light-driven AI technologies.
\n \n\n \n \n30 July 2024
\n \n \n \nAt the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI), created in 2021 to advance antimicrobial research, Oxford\u2019s graduate students are among those contributing to the search for solutions to tackle this growing threat to global health.
\n \n\n \n \n26 July 2024
\n \n \n \nThe UK Government has announced the launch of five new research hubs to develop quantum technologies.\r\n\r\nThe Hub for Quantum Computing via Integrated and Interconnected Implementations (QCI3) will be led by researchers at Oxford.
\n \n\n \n \n19 July 2024
\n \n \n \nA group of small freshwater animals protect themselves from infections using antibiotic recipes stolen from bacteria, according to new research led by the University of Oxford that could help develop future medicines.
\n \n\n \n \n28 June 2024
\n \n \n \nUniversity of Oxford research will be on display at the Royal Society\u2019s flagship public engagement event, the Summer Science Exhibition, which launches this year on Tuesday 2 July in central London.
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