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.
Stephanie Flude, University of Oxford and Juan Alcade, Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera (ICTJA - CSIC)
La tecnología de captura y almacenamiento de dióxido de carbono no ha conseguido hasta ahora disminuir las emisiones globales, y se nos acaba el tiempo.
Technical expertise comes first: the first vessels through the Suez Canal in 1869.
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Sekarang sebuah studi menunjukkan bahwa manusia purba yang tinggal di Afrika mungkin juga telah mengalami kawin silang dengan para hominin purba yang masih berkerabat dengan Homo Sapiens.
Students who can regulate tough emotions will achieve more. Anxiety will not impair their test performance. They can push through the boredom and frustration to master dull or difficult material.
No matter what we do, things will get worse.
Bernhard Staehli
La menace d'une pandémie mondiale de Covid-19 force la science à devenir de plus en plus ouverte. Cette transparence transforme le travail des scientifiques et pourrait changer le monde.
Ukrainian soldiers wait ahead of a prisoner exchange with Russian-backed separatists in the Donetsk region in December 2019.
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Over 60% of girls in Ethiopia are married by the age of 18. Many don’t have support in negotiating with their husbands and families to take control of their own fertility.
Bad science is clouding the issue.
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Einstein Professor for the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism, Humboldt University Berlin, and Director, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS); University of Oxford