University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Teaching has taken place at Oxford since 1096. Oxford has the largest volume of world-leading research in the country, rating top in the REF power rankings published by Research Fortnight. Oxford’s research involves more than 70 departments, almost 1,800 academic staff, more than 5,000 research and research support staff, and more than 5,600 graduate research students. The University has 38 independent colleges to which undergraduate and graduate students belong. Oxford has the highest research income from external sponsors of any UK university: £478.3m in 2013/14. The University has pioneered the successful commercial exploitation of academic research and invention, creating more than 100 companies, and files more patents each year than any other UK university.

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Au Nigeria, dans l’État d’Ekiti, où ont été menées ces recherches, la majorité des cacaoyères sont de petites exploitations. Narong Khueankaew/Shutterstock

Couper des arbres pour planter du cacao ? Une étude au Nigeria révèle les risques cachés de la déforestation pour les producteurs eux‑mêmes

Face à la flambée du prix du cacao, de nouvelles plantations s’étendent dans les zones forestières tropicales. Mais des recherches menées au Nigeria montrent que conserver des arbres peut être utile… et rentable.
Artist’s impression of Earth’s earliest complex animals during the late Ediacaran period – before the ‘Cambrian explosion’. Xiaodong Wang

Humans’ closest invertebrate ancestors date back much further than thought – how we discovered the fossils that show this

Did Earth’s major diversification event really happen in one sudden explosion? Our fossil discovery suggests not.
Estudo mostrou que interagir com um chatbot não ajudou as pessoas a tomarem melhores decisões de saúde, mas não necessariamente porque os sistemas não tinham as respostas certas, mas porque interação médica-paciente é muito mais complexa que isso. April stock/Shutterstock

Por que os chatbots de IA em saúde não vão ajudar você a se autodiagnosticar melhor

Um chatbot pode saber o que há de errado com você, mas quando as pessoas tentam usá-lo para entender os sintomas, podem acabar não ficando nem um pouco mais perto da resposta
When Children Are Asleep by Thomas Faed (1885). Walker Art Gallery

Silence: a brief literary history

Without silences, we wouldn’t have the exquisite hush of medieval lullabies, the suspenseful secrets of the realist novel, or jagged modernist poetry.

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