The University of Oxford’s Department of Materials celebrated a new chapter in its microscopy facilities with the arrival of a bespoke £3 million Transmission Electron Microscope. The JEOL GrandARM300F instrument will support […]
New, cutting-edge microscope will boost imaging capabilities
Technology Reveals Alfred Tennyson’s Hidden Words After More Than a Century
Oxford researchers have recovered previously unreadable writing by Alfred Tennyson, using advanced imaging technology to see through crossings-out, ink blots and damage. The discovery gives scholars a new opportunity to observe one […]
February 12, 2025: Darwin’s Drink: Join the celebration
The Future Leadership Institute celebrates the birthday of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin: 12 February 1809 – 12 February 2025 Venue: BELGIUM – ANTWERP Introduction: Our daily stress and struggle tend to focus […]
Want an Organisation That Can Change? Invest in Adaptive Leadership
Uncertainty requires organisations that can respond to new challenges. Adaptive leadership can help create a culture of learning while giving employees the confidence they need to embrace change. In a business environment […]
Business and Inequality: Why Leadership Has a Role to Play
Reducing the widening gap between rich and poor has become one of the defining challenges of our time. While governments are traditionally expected to address inequality through taxation and redistribution, companies also […]
The Brain Has a Chemical Metronome That Helps Keep Time
Scientists at Imperial College London have discovered that astrocytes — brain cells once regarded largely as support cells — produce rhythmic chemical signals that help synchronise the brain’s master biological clock. The […]
80-Million-Year-Old Bird Brain Reveals the Origins of Avian Intelligence
An extraordinarily preserved fossil bird from Brazil has allowed scientists to reconstruct the brain of a bird that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The 80-million-year-old skull of Navaornis hestiae fills a crucial evolutionary […]
Oxford named best university in the world for a record ninth consecutive year
Oxford University has been world number one in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings since 2017 – the longest time any university has held the position in the 21 annual editions of the […]
Scientists Create a New Two-Dimensional Phase of Matter
Physicists at the University of Cambridge have experimentally created the first two-dimensional “Bose glass” — a strange state of matter in which particles become trapped rather than spreading through the system. The […]
The World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Narrows the Search
Dark matter appears to dominate the mass of the Universe, yet nobody knows what it is. Deep beneath South Dakota, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has completed its most sensitive search yet — and […]
Fossil Microbes in Spain Could Help Scientists Search for Life on Mars
Scientists have used powerful X-ray nano-imaging to investigate fossilised microorganisms preserved in one of Earth’s most extreme environments. The fossils from Spain’s Río Tinto could help researchers recognise ancient traces of life […]
Scientists Create Black-Hole ‘Plasma Fireballs’ on Earth
Scientists led by the University of Oxford have created extraordinarily dense beams of matter and antimatter in the laboratory. Containing around 10 trillion electron-positron pairs, these artificial “fireballs” could allow researchers to […]
Scientists Make Electron Whirlpools Visible at Room Temperature
Electrons are normally imagined as particles travelling through a wire. But under the right conditions they can behave collectively like a liquid — complete with microscopic whirlpools. ETH Zurich researchers have now […]
Shape-Shifting Cancer Cells Reveal New Targets to Stop Cancer Spreading
Scientists have discovered two genes that help melanoma cells change their shape as they move through different tissues. The finding reveals one of the tricks cancer uses to spread through the body […]
