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A person crossing a street in a city, surrounded by augmented reality-style overlays and bounding boxes highlighting objects such as the individual, vehicles, and traffic lights, implying the use of AI or computer vision for object detection and tracking.

Pioneering new mathematical model could help protect privacy and ensure safer use of AI

Artificial Intelligence
Innovation
Research
Science
Technology
Major new footprint discoveries on Britain’s ‘dinosaur highway’

Major new footprint discoveries on Britain’s ‘dinosaur highway’

Research
Science
Red blood cells

Researchers develop a way to test the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape

Innovation
Medical Sciences
Research
Science
A large fragment from a human skull showing signs of damage caused by blunt force.

Analysis of butchered bones suggests violent ‘othering’ of enemies in Bronze Age Britain

History
Research
Science
Social Sciences
A chimpanzee sits on the floor of a forest, with an infant chimpanzee at its side. The adult is holding a stone in its left hand and is moving it towards a larger stone on the ground in front of it, with the infant observing. Behind is another chimpanzee.

Study shows that chimpanzees perform the same complex behaviours that have brought humans success

Biology
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science
Aerial view over Oxford City Centre, with historic University buildings.

Oxford researchers selected for European Research Council Consolidator Grants

Awards
Funding
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science
The seed capsule of a squirting cucumber has detached from the plant and is suspended in midair. The seeds are being ejected in a jet of mucilage.

New study reveals the explosive secret of the squirting cucumber

Biodiversity
Biology
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science
Aerial view of a coal-fired power station in winter, with clouds of carbon emissions rising from chimneys and towers.

Redefining net zero will not stop global warming, new study shows

Climate
Climate change
Environment
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science
Sustainability
Vector illustration depicting power of mind. Three side-on silhouettes of human heads are filled with illustrations and icons to demonstrate thought, including speech bubbles, cog wheels, puzzle pieces, graphs and question marks.

Four Oxford academics receive ERC Synergy Grants to address complex scientific problems

Funding
Humanities
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Medical Sciences
Research
Science
Social Sciences
3D artistic concept of an AI processor. It shows a series of cubes on a computer circuit board. The largest has the word ‘AI’ on the top.

New, ARIA-backed project aims to unlock radically cheaper AI hardware

Artificial Intelligence
Funding
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science

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