Tripling cigarette taxes worldwide would cut the number of smokers by one-third and prevent 200 million premature deaths this century, Canadian researchers say. Dr. Prabhat Jha, director of the Center for Global Health Research of St. ...
Oxford Photovoltaics, a commercial offshoot of the University of Oxford, has developed colorful and transparent glass that can generate electricity from the sun’s energy. This semi-transparent dyed glass that acts as a solar panel ...
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There's no evidence to support the safety or effectiveness of nearly 8 percent of all components used in hip-replacement surgeries in England and Wales, a new study finds. The University of Oxford researchers said the current regulatory ...
UK-based drug discovery and development firm Summit has formed a strategic alliance with the University of Oxford in order to further strengthen its utrophin modulator program for the treatment of the fatal muscle wasting disease duchenne ...
A deal between Microsoft and Janet, the UK's research and education network, will see over 18 million staff and students at learning institutions benefit from a cloud-based peering arrangement. The agreement will enable improved access ...
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Foreign secretary William Hague has announced the devotion of £500,000 a year to the opening and running of a global cyber research centre to be sited at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. The Global Centre for ...
Four companies recently received Innovation Awards from the Institute of Physics (IOP) following each company’s successful development and commercialisation of a novel technology which has had significant impact in a range of markets. ...
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Cleantech investment specialists MTI Partners has announced the completion of a £2 million investment round in Oxford Photovoltaics Limited (OPV), an Oxford University spin-out Materials/Cleantech company commercializing solid-state ...
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Researchers at the University of Oxford have found a way to make wafer-sized graphene with good electrical characteristics. Grown on copper using chemical vapour deposition (CVD), the material is not mono-crystalline, but crystal ...
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ISIS Innovation, the technology transfer company of the University of Oxford, is expanding Down Under with the appointment of Helen Ujvary as Australian representative for the Isis Enterprise consultancy business. Ujvary was previously ...
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Despite the widespread research in quantum computers, no-one has built a machine that uses quantum-mechanics to solve computational problems faster than a classical computer. Quantum computers harness the power of atoms and molecules to ...
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,an historian of Iraq educated at the University of Oxford and currently based at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, ...
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Oxford University researchers looking for more efficient and cheaper ways to manufacture solar panels have found a possible solution in lowly base metal zinc. For as long as photovoltaic panels have been in large-scale commercial ...
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A “critical” advanced analytics skills shortage is impeding big data programmes. This is one finding of a research report from IBM and the Sad Business School at the University of Oxford. Analytics: the real-world use of big ...
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The University of Oxford and a consortium of UK academic institutions have deployed what is believed to be the nation's most powerful GPU-accelerated supercomputer. The supercomputer,which uses 372 Nvidia Tesla M2090 GPUs,will be used for ...
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