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MRI images could be improved with the use of copper in contrast agents, an advance with the potential to help doctors diagnose patients’ conditions more easily and safely.

Moths' wings are about "10 times as efficient at absorbing sound than any of our sound absorbers"

OXford UK (SPX) Jun 28, 2023 - A study led by the University of Oxford has brought us one step closer to solving a mystery that has puzzled naturalists since Charles Darwin: when did animals first appear in the history of Earth?

Key points: • Scientists have been mystified as to why animals are missing in much of the fossil record; • Researchers have developed a new method to determine if animals really were absent during certain geological eras, or if they were present but too fragile to be preserved; • The findings establish a new maximum point at which animals first evolved on Earth.

Oxford University Senior Research Fellow, Robert House, who is working on the next generation of rechargeable battery materials at Diamond Light Source, has been selected as one of Forbes Magazine’s prestigious 30 people to watch under 30 in Europe Science and Healthcare. Click to read more...

Significantly improved electric vehicle (EV) batteries could be a step closer thanks to a new study led by University of Oxford researchers, published in Nature. Using advanced imaging techniques, ...

Significantly improved electric vehicle (EV) batteries could be a step closer thanks to a new study led by University of Oxford researchers, published today in Nature. Using advanced imaging techniques, this revealed mechanisms which cause lithium metal solid-state batteries (Li-SSBs) to fail. If these can be overcome, solid-state batteries using lithium metal anodes could

Advanced imaging techniques have been used by Oxford University researchers to observe failure inside lithium metal solid-state batteries (Li-SSBs), an advance that could lead to improved electric vehicle batteries.

Recent research guided by the University of Oxford researchers may bring improved electric vehicle (EV) batteries one step closer.

Findings published in Nature settle the dispute: phonons can be chiral. This fundamental concept, discovered using circular X-ray light, sees phonons twisting like a corkscrew through quartz.