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The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption as seen by Japan's Himawari-8 satellite, at 05:40 UTC on 15th January (about 1 hour 35 minutes into the eruption). Image credit: Simon Proud / STFC RAL Space / NCEO / JMA.

Tonga volcano had highest plume ever recorded, new study confirms

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A new EU-backed research consortium involving Oxford University will investigate whether quantum technologies could make precision measurements more energy efficient. Image credit: Shutterstock.

Oxford University joins €2.9 million Quantum Technologies Flagship project

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Bacterial armour plating has implications for antibiotics

Bacterial armour plating has implications for antibiotics

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Artist's reconstruction of Gangtoucunia aspera as it would have appeared in life on the Cambrian seafloor, circa 514 million years ago. The individual in the foreground has part of the skeleton removed to show the soft polyp inside the skeleton.

500 million year-old fossils reveal answer to evolutionary riddle

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Global.health enables access to real-time, anonymized health data on infectious disease outbreaks, for the first time. Image credit: Shutterstock.

$3m Rockefeller Foundation funding to strengthen pandemic surveillance and response innovation co-developed by Oxford biologists

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 In a series of powerful ‘hopes’ for Egypt, 20 leading researchers from across the university, have recorded wishes and warnings in videos and written messages for the delegates to COP27.  Credit: Shutterstock

COP27 must deliver fast action, swift justice and protect nature – Oxford experts

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First observation of surface waves on Mars reveals details of planet’s crust. Kim et al., (2022) Science.

Two major meteorite impacts reveal new insights about the surface of Mars

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Artistic reconstruction of the fossil squamate, Bellairsia gracilis, basking on a dinosaur footprint. Artwork by Dr Elsa Panciroli.

New Scottish fossil sheds light on the origins of lizards

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Oxford joins Schmidt Futures’ global initiative to accelerate use of artificial intelligence in scientific research

Oxford joins Schmidt Futures’ $148 million global initiative to accelerate use of AI in scientific research

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The Omega Seamaster II submersible surveys the vertical walls of the Maldives subsea topography. These cliffs often descended from 30metres to 250metres and further to 500metres, a defining physical characteristic of the new ecosystem ‘The Trapping Zone’,

Discovery of new ecosystem - ‘The Trapping Zone’ - creating oasis of life in the Maldives

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