University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (informally referred to as Oxford University or simply Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England, United Kingdom.

Surveying endangered wildlife from space

Managing the future by algorithm? What if your boss was an algorithm?

Giving crops the power to resist floods

Positive signs from the first published clinical trial for treatment of COVID-19

Introducing plants that can make their own fertilizer

Creating fakes to help save an endangered species: A new approach to preservation?

Scientists from the University of Oxford and Fudan University, Shanghai, have invented a way to create fake rhino horn using horse hair. Published in Scientific Reports they hope their method will provide a blueprint to create credible fakes that could eventually flood a market which has decimated the wild rhino population. In Chinese medicine rhino horn is

Creating fakes to help save an endangered species: A new approach to preservation?

Nature documentaries talk about threats to nature but rarely show those threats

Researchers analysing recent BBC and Netflix nature documentaries found that although they increasingly mention threats to nature, visual depictions of these threats remain scarce, potentially misleading audiences on the state of the natural world. The findings are discussed in a Perspective published in the British Ecological Society journal People and Nature Researchers from Bangor University,

Nature documentaries talk about threats to nature but rarely show those threats

Emotion-reading algorithms fail basic tests as truth detectors

Though algorithms are increasingly being deployed in all facets of life, a new USC study has found that they fail basic tests as truth detectors. Most algorithms have probably never heard the Eagles’ song, “Lyin’ Eyes.” Otherwise, they’d do a better job of recognizing duplicity. Computers aren’t very good at discerning misrepresentation, and that’s a

Emotion-reading algorithms fail basic tests as truth detectors

New computational method could help diagnose and rectify a genetic defect with gene-editing tools

Technique could help diagnose, rectify a genetic defect with gene-editing tools such as CRISPR Scientists have devised a new computational method that reveals genetic patterns in the massive jumble of individual cells in the body. The discovery, published in the journal eLife, will be useful in discerning patterns of gene expression across many kinds of disease, including

New computational method could help diagnose and rectify a genetic defect with gene-editing tools

Could the internet be changing the brain?

An international team of researchers from Western Sydney University, Harvard University, Kings College, Oxford University and University of Manchester have found the Internet can produce both acute and sustained alterations in specific areas of cognition, which may reflect changes in the brain, affecting our attentional capacities, memory processes, and social interactions. In a first of

Could the internet be changing the brain?

Climate change is already affecting global food production

The world’s top 10 crops — barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane and wheat — supply a combined 83 percent of all calories produced on cropland. Yields have long been projected to decrease in future climate conditions. Now, new research shows climate change has already affected production of these key energy sources — and

Climate change is already affecting global food production

A light-based brain-like computing chip starts to come into focus

New light-based hardware which can store and process information in a similar way to the human brain / Study published in “Nature” journal A technology that functions like a brain? In these times of artificial intelligence, this no longer seems so far-fetched – for example, when a mobile phone can recognise faces or languages. With

A light-based brain-like computing chip starts to come into focus

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Oxford University and Oracle Partner to Speed Identification of COVID-19 Variants
on May 16, 2021 at 4:01 pm
The emergence of more infectious variants of the COVID-19 virus is threatening to slow the global recovery and potentially thwart ...
Oxford University is set to teach students that imperial measurements including the mile, inch, yard, pound and ounce are 'tied deeply to the idea of Empire' in 'decolonising ...
on May 16, 2021 at 1:31 pm
Oxford University has reportedly suggested imperial measurements, including the mile, inch, pound and ounce, should be 'decolonised' due to links to the British Empire.
Covid-19: What are the effects of administering two different vaccines? Preliminary data from Oxford study might have the answer
on May 16, 2021 at 3:44 am
The researchers shared the results in a peer-reviewed Research Letter that was published in the reputed journal The Lancet.
Woke madness! Oxford University to 'decolonise' imperial measurements in new change
on May 15, 2021 at 3:42 am
OXFORD UNIVERSITY is planning to 'decolonise' imperial measurements such as inch, mile, yard and pound in a new woke move.
Oxford University decolonising inch by inch, with imperial measurements the next target
on May 14, 2021 at 1:00 pm
Mile, inch, yard, pound and ounce are 'tied deeply to idea of the Empire' and their presence in the curriculum could change, say scholars ...

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Oxford University and Oracle Partner to Speed Identification of COVID-19 Variants - PRNewswire
May 16, 2021
Fellowship winners will study next at Oxford and Cambridge - Yale News
May 11, 2021
Preliminary data suggests mixing COVID-19 vaccine increases reactogenicity - EurekAlert
May 12, 2021
UK scientists launch human challenge trial to study Covid reinfection - CNBC
April 18, 2021
Covaxin effectively neutralises all key emerging variants, says study published in Oxford journal - Times of India
May 16, 2021

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Rescue Ratty! The water vole inspired one of Wind In The Willows best loved characters, but in real life they are as vicious as they are cunning. They’re also in danger of ...
on May 13, 2021 at 2:08 pm
Tom Moorhouse who is a researcher at Oxford University's zoology department, has penned a book about voles. The creature was the model for sensible, kindly Ratty of Wind In The Willows.
How to tell the thermodynamic cost of time
on May 13, 2021 at 6:27 am
Quantum clocks, which typically keep time by counting the vibrations of single atoms, have an accuracy that depends on how much heat they emit. But do ordinary clocks share this property? To address ...
New genome-wide association study almost triples discovery sample size
on May 12, 2021 at 8:10 am
A team of researchers from the University of Oxford, Simon Fraser University and Genomics PLC, has conducted a genome-wide association study using the 2020 UK Biobank data release, using almost triple ...
Oxford uni spin-out secures backing
on May 7, 2021 at 1:19 am
Foresight Group and Williams Advanced Engineering have invested in Machine Discovery, a University of Oxford spin-out commercialising new machine learning technology.
Partnership launched to fast track drug discovery
on May 6, 2021 at 1:39 am
The University of Nottingham is part of a new industry collaboration launched to accelerate drug discovery projects that will fast track research ...