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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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Carbonero común. Satu Jamsa / Shutterstock

Tintes de ciudad: los efectos de la vida urbana sobre la coloración de las aves

Las aves que habitan en las ciudades tienden a ser más pequeñas y sufren un mayor daño celular que aquellas que viven en los bosques. Un reciente estudio demuestra que, además, los carboneros urbanos presentan una coloración más apagada.
Northern Europe will experience the greatest relative increase in uncomfortably hot days if global temperature rise reaches 2°C. DRG Photography/Shutterstock

Northern Europe faces biggest relative increase in uncomfortable heat and is dangerously unprepared – new research

Rising temperatures threaten the UK, Switzerland and Norway with more uncomfortably hot days – new research.

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