University of Oxford

Wine quality is notorious for varying from year to year, but what makes for a “good year”? A new study led by the University of Oxford has found that weather plays a critically important role in determining wine quality. By analysing 70…

Oxford Professor Andrew Thompson this week joined survivors, activists, business leaders and international diplomats as commissioners of a government-backed global initiative confronting modern slavery, led by the former UK Prime…

Oxford University Innovation (OUI), the research commercialisation office of the University of Oxford, has published its first impact report, which showcases the ripple effect of spinouts, start-ups and social ventures started in…

A global team of scientists led by the University of Oxford have announced the results of an unprecedented collaboration to search for the source of the largest ever seismic event recorded on Mars. The study rules out a meteorite…

Oxford will be the international headquarters for the Breakthrough Listen initiative, the largest ever astronomical programme searching for ‘technosignatures’ - evidence of past or present technology that would signal the presence of life…

The Oxford Sport Leaders Programme combines educational inspiration, learning new skills, physical activity, and the development of future career interests to inspire local school children in creative ways. Thirty local school…

As the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated, viruses can quickly evolve new ways of evading our immune systems, undermining our efforts to control outbreaks. But a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by researchers at the University…

The NHS ADOPT study has now begun to automatically identify patients with vertebral fracture, by using Nanox.AI an Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme to review thousands of hospital computed tomography (CT) scans. The patients are now…

Economics Professor Steve Bond, senior research fellow at Oxford’s Nuffield College, has been elected to a highly prestigious fellowship of the international Econometric Society. Professor Bond has made significant contributions in…

An estimated 95,000–167,000 inpatients at English National Health Service (NHS) hospitals caught SARS-CoV-2 while in hospital during England’s ‘second wave’ of COVID-19, between June 2020 and March 2021, reports a study in Nature. The…