16 November 2022
\n \n \n \nAir pollutants in the form of tiny particles suspended in air kill around seven million people every year, but also have a buffering effect on climate change. By Peter Manshausen, Duncan Watson-Parris and Philip Stier from the Department of Physics.
\n \n\n \n \n24 October 2022
\n \n \n \n'How would an artificial intelligence (AI) decide what to do?', asks Oxford DPhil candidate in Engineering Science, Michael K Cohen, and his co-author Marcus Hutter from the Australian National University, in this article which highlights the potential risks of relying on the 'reinforcement learning' approach in AI research.
\n \n\n \n \n20 October 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessor Tim Palmer, Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Physics, discusses how noise can improve the accuracy of climate models, and how noise in the brain is the key to creativity, in an article first published on the Conversation.
\n \n\n \n \n18 October 2022
\n \n \n \nAn article first published on the Conversation by Amy Dickman, Professor of Wildlife Conservation in the Department of Biology, and colleagues Niall Hammond from Griffith University and Duan Biggs at Northern Arizona University.
\n \n\n \n \n11 October 2022
\n \n \n \nIn an article first published on the Conversation, Graham Taylor, Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Department of Biology, writes about the sophisticated techniques that Swainson's hawks use to deal with the 'confusion effect' posed by large swarms of their prey, the Mexican Free-Tailed Bat.
\n \n\n \n \n29 September 2022
\n \n \n \nMichael K. Cohen, graduate student in the Department of Engineering Science, writes about AI, chess and the difficulty of identifying cheating in an article first published on the Conversation.
\n \n\n \n \n15 August 2022
\n \n \n \nHollie Booth from the Department of Biology discusses whether international marine tourists might be prepared to pay towards community-based shark conservation, in an article first published on the Conversation.
\n \n\n \n \n11 August 2022
\n \n \n \nAmy Dickman, Professor of Wildlife Conservation in the Department of Biology, puts the case that trophy hunting import bans risk increasing threats to wildlife and undermining local rights and livelihoods, in an article first published on the Conversation.
\n \n\n \n \n1 August 2022
\n \n \n \nIn an article first published on the Conversation, Matthew Wright (Department of Materials), together with colleagues Bruno Vicari Stefani from CSIRO and Brett Hallam from UNSW Sydney, explain how rethinking the type of silicon used in solar cells could make them much more efficient.
\n \n\n \n \n15 July 2022
\n \n \n \nA collaboration between Earth Sciences palaeobiologists from the University of Oxford and University College London has shed new light on one of the earliest-known salamanders, from a rock first discovered in the 1970s.
\n \n\n \n \n14 June 2022
\n \n \n \nBen Igielman, DPhil student in palaeontology in the Department of Earth Sciences, writes about the new Jurassic World film in an article first published on the Conversation.
\n \n\n \n \n4 April 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessor Myles Allen, University of Oxford and Hugh Helferty, Queen's University Ontario discuss whether Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine makes it harder to stop climate change.
\n \n\n \n \n24 March 2022
\n \n \n \nKeri Grieman, Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science, writes about the 'ethical black box' for robots.
\n \n\n \n \n24 March 2022
\n \n \n \nEJ Milner-Gulland, Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity, and colleagues from the University of Kent write about \u201cbiodiversity net gain\u201d \u2013 a measure applying to most new developments in England which is intended to ensure nature is left better off overall than before the project began.
\n \n\n \n \n22 July 2021
\n \n \n \nRichard K Broughton from the Department of Zoology writes about the Monks Wood Wilderness experiment in an article on The Conversation.
\n \n\n \n \n21 June 2021
\n \n \n \nAndy Gosler from the Department of Zoology writes about a unique project on ethno-ornithology.
\n \n\n \n \n12 May 2021
\n \n \n \nHollie Booth from the Department of Zoology and colleague William Arlidge from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries write about new research proposing that commercial fishing companies and seafood consumers should pay compensation for the environmental impacts of fisheries.
\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 \n10 February 2021
\n \n \n \nFritz Vollrath from the Department of Zoology writes in an article published on The Conversation.
\n \n\n \n \n26 November 2020
\n \n \n \nAn article from the Conversation by Alexandra Zimmerman (Zoology), Ewan Macdonald (Said Business School) and Tigga Kingston (Texas Tech University).
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