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A computer chip with oscillating beams of light of different colours bouncing across the surface, to represent both light and radio frequencies encoding data.

From square to cube: Hardware processing for AI goes 3D, boosting processing power

Artificial Intelligence
Innovation
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science
Artistic illustration with a coronavirus particle in the foreground, seen as a sphere covered in spikes. Next to it, a double-helix DNA molecule stretches into the background.

New AI tool could help predict viral outbreaks

Artificial Intelligence
Coronavirus
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science
A radio telescope pointing upwards is silhouetted against the Milky Way, seen as a vast array of stars in a twilight sky.

University of Oxford partners with Breakthrough Prize Foundation in search for life beyond Earth

Astrophysics
Funding
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science
A sunrise as seen from Mars. The red surface of the planet is illuminated by the disc of the sun appearing on the horizon. The background is black outer space with stars.

New study reveals source of largest ever Mars quake

Astrophysics
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science
Mother and baby

Tackling persistent inequities underlying maternal mortality

Health
Medical Sciences
Policy
Research
A farmer's hand holds a bunch of harvested grapes. In the other hand, a pair of secateurs snips the stem off the bunch. In the background, out of focus rows of grape vines are illuminated by sunlight.

New research finds that warm summers and wet winters yield better wine vintages

Climate change
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Science
Scholarship programme for the innovators of the future launched

Scholarship programme for the innovators of the future launched

Education
Innovation
Students

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