Governments and donors have spent billions of dollars since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit attempting to slow the pace of species extinctions around the world. Now, a new paper in Nature provides... Read more
A new computer software programme has the potential to lip-read more accurately than people and to help those with hearing loss, Oxford University researchers have found. Watch, Attend and S... Read more
Research from the University of Surrey reveals scientists are able to improve the efficiency of solar cells more than threefold ·The solar cells are a flexible, lightweight and environmental... Read more
Scientists at Oxford University have developed a solvent system with reduced toxicity that can be used in the manufacture of perovskite solar cells, clearing one of the barriers to the comme... Read more
Scientists have found evidence of microfibers ingested by deep sea animals, revealing for the first time the environmental fallout of microplastic pollution. The UK government recently annou... Read more
A team of scientists from Oxford University has shown how the natural movement of bacteria could be harnessed to assemble and power microscopic ‘windfarms’. The study, published... Read more
New exploration technique by Oxford and Durham universities finds significant Helium reserves A new approach to gas exploration has discovered a huge helium gas field, which could address th... Read more
Focus on increasing throughput of processes has favoured poorer models with lower chances of success The search for new medicines is becoming unsustainably expensive despite huge technologic... Read more
Team from Oxford and Stony Brook first to use optogenetics to control excitation waves in heart cells We depend on electrical waves to regulate the rhythm of our heartbeat. When those signal... Read more
China’s proposal is like a credit score that could encompass your entire life, from work performance to Internet activity. China’s proposals for a “social credit system... Read more
A new discovery will make it possible to create pixels just a few hundred nanometres across that could pave the way for extremely high-resolution and low-energy thin, flexible displays for a... Read more
Doctors faced with the tricky task of spotting rare genetic diseases in children may soon be asking parents to email their family photos. A computer program can now learn to identify rare co... Read more
Fruit flies show a mark of intelligence in ‘thinking’ before they act, suggests a study by researchers from the University of Oxford’s Centre for Neural Circuits and Behavi... Read more
