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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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Pulau Enggano terletak di perairan sebelah selatan Bengkulu yang berbatasan dengan Samudra Hindia. Engga Zakaria Sangian/Author provided.

Riset: bahasa Enggano yang terancam punah masih berkarib dengan bahasa Austronesia

Kata ‘jendela’ dalam bahasa Enggano mengungkap status kekerabatan bahasa ini dengan rumpun bahasa Austronesia. Mengapa demikian?
Problemas de planejamento e operação de redes estão se tornando maiores e mais complexos devido à transição energética e atingindo limite da capacidade de processamento de supercomputadores comuns. metamorworks/Shutterstock

Computadores quânticos podem acelerar a transição para redes de energia “carbono zero”

Pesquisadores estão estudando como os computadores quânticos podem ajudar a otimizar a operação e o planejamento da expansão de redes de energia carbono zero.
Construction workers in Causeway Bay rest during a heat warning. The Hong Kong Observatory launched a new weather alert system in 2023 to warn residents about the health risks of extreme heat, advising them to seek shelter and drink more water. SOPA Images Limited / Alamy Stock Photo

How a global pact could tackle extreme heat

The global call to action aims to protect the most vulnerable, protect workers, boost resilience and limit further warming to stave off an era of ‘global boiling’.
The two lion coalition of Jacob and Tibu, photographed a few weeks after their swim. Orin Cornille

Lions in a Uganda park make a perilous journey across a 1.5km stretch of water: study suggests the drive is to find mates

Male lions are making the risky swims, braving crocodiles and hippos, so as to find females.
Svetlana Petriïtchouk au cours de son procès à Moscou. Yuri Kochetkov/EPA-EFE

En Russie, la purge se poursuit dans le monde de la culture

Une autrice et une metteuse en scène viennent d’être condamnées à six ans de prison pour une pièce de théâtre. Une première, qui en dit long sur le climat actuel dans le pays.

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