Skip to content
Oxford Research News

Oxford

Research News

Primary Navigation Menu
Menu
  • HOME
  • HISTORY
  • HEALTH
  • EARTH
  • CHEMISTRY
  • ANIMALS
  • FEATURED
  • ADVERTISE
  • CONTACT

APPLY FOR AWARDS

Click here
NEWS
Oxford International Research Awards (OIRA-2022). Nomination Started for OIRA-2022 and going on. The Leading International Research Awards is conducted to have the Grand Award Ceremony @Hotel Breeze Residency, Trichy, Tamilnadu, India. Visit www.oxfordresearchawards.com for more details.
Animals

Lost remains of last known Tasmanian tiger found hidden in museum cabinet

On: December 15, 2022
Space and Time

Nuclear fusion reactor ‘breakthrough’ is significant, but light-years away from being useful

On: December 14, 2022
Health

Weighted-blanket use may boost sleep hormone melatonin, small study hints

On: December 12, 2022
Animals

‘Jousting ankylosaurs’ whacked their peers with their ‘sledgehammer-like tails’

On: December 10, 2022
Space and Time

Distant ‘hell planet’ with diamond core is the victim of a gravitational catastrophe

On: December 9, 2022
Health

Woman who spontaneously vomited up to 30 times a day likely had rogue antibodies

On: December 7, 2022
Health

In First, Scientists Use CRISPR for Personalized Cancer Treatment

On: November 11, 2022
Space and Time

Part of a lost, ancient star catalog has now been found

On: November 7, 2022
Health

RSV Is Surging: What We Know about This Common and Surprisingly Dangerous Virus

On: November 4, 2022
Space and Time

Marsquakes hint that the planet might be volcanically active after all

On: November 3, 2022
Space and Time

Particles from space provide a new look inside cyclones

On: October 26, 2022
Space and Time

A 3-D model of the Cat’s Eye nebula shows rings sculpted by jets

On: October 14, 2022
Animals

‘Hell fish’ likely killed by dinosaur-ending asteroid is preserved in stunning detail

On: October 12, 2022
Ticker
Florida airport monkeys are the descendants of zoo escapees
Here’s how lightning may help clean the air
Scientists Say: Metal
All hail ‘Emperor Dumbo,’ the newest species of deep-dwelling octopus
18 dead and hundreds missing in catastrophic Himalayan avalanche

LATEST

Nuclear fusion reactor ‘breakthrough’ is significant, but light-years away from being useful

On: December 14, 2022
In: Space and Time

Distant ‘hell planet’ with diamond core is the victim of a gravitational catastrophe

On: December 9, 2022
In: Space and Time

Part of a lost, ancient star catalog has now been found

On: November 7, 2022
In: Space and Time

Marsquakes hint that the planet might be volcanically active after all

On: November 3, 2022
In: Space and Time

Particles from space provide a new look inside cyclones

On: October 26, 2022
In: Space and Time

A 3-D model of the Cat’s Eye nebula shows rings sculpted by jets

On: October 14, 2022
In: Space and Time

CHEMISTRY

This eco-friendly glitter gets its color from plants, not plastic

On: November 18, 2021
In: Chemistry

Minuscule arrangements in cellulose reflect light in specific ways to give rise to vibrant hues All that glitters is not green. Glitter and shimmery pigments are often made using toxic compounds or pollutive microplastics (SN: 4/15/19). That makes the sparkly stuff, notoriously difficult to clean up in the house, a

Scientists Say: Metal

On: May 17, 2021
In: Chemistry, Trending

New recycling technologies could keep more plastic out of landfills

On: April 29, 2021
In: Chemistry, EARTH

ANIMALS

  • Lost remains of last known Tasmanian tiger found hidden in museum cabinet

    A female Tasmanian tiger that died in 1936, not a male named Benjamin, was actually the last surviving member of this extinct species. The female’s remains had been hidden in museum storage. It has long been believed that Benjamin, a male Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus), was the last surviving member

  • ‘Jousting ankylosaurs’ whacked their peers with their ‘sledgehammer-like tails’

    Not only did ankylosaurs like “Zuul” use their tails as weapons against potential predators, but they also used them to battle their peers. Equipped with massive tails studded with spikes, ankylosaurs were heavily armored herbivores that could do real damage in a fight. Paleontologists once thought that these tank-like dinosaurs

  • ‘Hell fish’ likely killed by dinosaur-ending asteroid is preserved in stunning detail

    Four exceptional fossils represent newly described species. Just beneath the scrubby plains of southern North Dakota at the site of an ancient riverbed, paleontologists are hard at work digging up the end of the world as the dinosaurs knew it. Now, they’ve discovered two newfound species of 66 million-year-old sturgeon

  • Orcas are attacking boats near Europe. It might be a fad.

    Orcas sometimes pick up a behavior for a while and then quit it just as quickly. Orcas are snapping the rudders off boats off the European coast, and scientists aren’t sure why. According to NPR, the spate of odd encounters has spanned from the coasts of Portugal and Spain up

<section id="vfb_widget-3" class="widget vfb_widget_class">

Contact Support

 

Verification

</section>

Physics and Technology

Large Hadron Collider switches on at highest ever power level to look for dark matter

The detector is set to run at its highest energies yet. The Large Hadron Collider has been turned back on today (July 5) and is set to smash particles together at never-before-seen energy levels. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Located at

Continue Reading

Scientists grew living human skin around a robotic finger

The advance brings Terminator-like cyborgs a small step closer to reality The Terminator may be one step closer to reality. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have built a robotic finger that, much like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s titular cyborg assassin, is covered in living human skin. The goal is to someday

Continue Reading

Turbulence Equations Discovered After Century-Long Quest

The formulas describe the complex behavior of a liquid when it meets a boundary Since at least the 1920s, scientists have been puzzled by the turbulence that arises when a liquid hits a wall. For instance, what happens when water violently sloshes against the side of a pool or when

Continue Reading

Tesla recalls 50,000 cars that disobey stop signs in self-driving mode Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2307147-tesla-recalls-50000-cars-that-disobey-stop-signs-in-self-driving-mode

The “rolling stop” feature introduced by Tesla in October meant that cars rolled past stop signs instead of stopping, as many states require by law Tesla is recalling more than 50,000 cars in the US because the AI behind its self-driving feature acted too aggressively, rolling past stop signs rather

Continue Reading

EARTH

Conservationists Promote the Annual Big Butterfly Count as Two-Fifths of British Butterflies Face Threat

In 2013, scientists said that around five out of the millions of invertebrates, including butterflies, were at risk of extinction. These beautiful creatures have shown signs of a significant decline in population and conservationists have been fighting for a law to be implemented to protect butterflies. The annual Big Butterfly

Continue Reading

Alien earthworms have spread to almost all parts of North America

Invasive worms, considered a major threat to native ecosystems, have been found in 97 per cent of areas for which there are records in North America As North Americans have busied themselves about their various concerns, unseen invaders have slowly been amassing beneath their feet. There are now more alien

Continue Reading

James Webb Space Telescope Set to Study Two Strange Super-Earths

Space agency officials promise to deliver geology results from worlds dozens of light-years away The James Webb Space Telescope plans to explore strange, new rocky worlds in unprecedented detail. The telescope’s scientific consortium has an ambitious agenda to study geology on these small planets from “50 light-years away”, they said

Continue Reading

Amazon nears ‘tipping point’ where rainforest could transform into savanna

The Amazon may be nearing a “tipping point.” If deforestation continues, the Amazon rainforest could reach a critical tipping point where most of it transforms into a dry savanna, a new study warns. The study, published Monday (March 7) in the journal Nature Climate Change, suggests that more than 75%

Continue Reading

HEALTH

Weighted-blanket use may boost sleep hormone melatonin, small study hints

A small study links weighted-blanket use at bedtime to increased melatonin production. Using a weighted blanket at bedtime may boost the body’s production of the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin, a small study suggests. However, at this point, it’s unclear why the hefty blankets might increase melatonin levels and whether this significantly

Continue Reading

Woman who spontaneously vomited up to 30 times a day likely had rogue antibodies

A woman’s unusual vomiting episodes may be linked to an autoimmune disorder. A young woman experienced spontaneous vomiting attacks during which she would sometimes retch more than 30 times a day and heave up to 1.6 gallons (6 liters) over the full course of an episode. It turns out, the

Continue Reading

In First, Scientists Use CRISPR for Personalized Cancer Treatment

The “most complicated therapy ever” tailors bespoke, genome-edited immune cells to attack tumors A small clinical trial has shown that researchers can use CRISPR gene editing to alter immune cells so that they will recognize mutated proteins specific to a person’s tumours. Those cells can then be safely set loose

Continue Reading

RSV Is Surging: What We Know about This Common and Surprisingly Dangerous Virus

Your questions answered about what RSV is, how it spreads, what vaccines are on the way and who is most at risk As flu season picks up and experts weigh concerns about another possible COVID surge, children’s hospitals are already filling with patients with another viral threat: respiratory syncytial virus,

Continue Reading

TRENDING

Florida airport monkeys are the descendants of zoo escapees

By: research
On: May 21, 2021

Here’s how lightning may help clean the air

Scientists Say: Metal

All hail ‘Emperor Dumbo,’ the newest species of deep-dwelling octopus

18 dead and hundreds missing in catastrophic Himalayan avalanche

SPACE AND TIME

Nuclear fusion reactor ‘breakthrough’ is significant, but light-years away from being useful

Useful, cost-effective nuclear fusion remains a distant dream, despite a small step in the right direction from the government’s NIF reactor. Scientists have just announced a breakthrough in nuclear fusion ignition: For the first time the heart of a powerful fusion reactor has briefly generated more energy than was put

Continue Reading

Distant ‘hell planet’ with diamond core is the victim of a gravitational catastrophe

The planet 55 Cancri e, also known as the “hell planet,” appears to have been dragged closer to its sun’s equator due to a gravitational anomaly. Scientists studying a distant “hell planet” where clouds rain lava, the oceans are molten and the core is filled with diamonds have found that

Continue Reading

Part of a lost, ancient star catalog has now been found

Greek astronomer Hipparchus is thought to be the first to attempt to precisely map the stars Fragments of a star catalog from the second century B.C. have turned up in a manuscript that had been erased and written over centuries later. A new analysis of the religious manuscript shows that

Continue Reading

Marsquakes hint that the planet might be volcanically active after all

The finding, based on more than 1,000 quakes, suggests the planet isn’t geologically dead Researchers have analyzed a slew of recent temblors on the Red Planet and shown that these Marsquakes are probably caused by magma moving deep under the Martian surface. That’s evidence that Mars is still volcanically active,

Continue Reading

HISTORY

What’s the world’s oldest civilization?

Did the first civilization arise in Mesopotamia, or elsewhere? Countless civilizations have risen and fallen over the millennia. But which one is the oldest on record? About 30 years ago, this question seemed to have a straightforward answer. Around 4000 B.C., the earliest phase of the Sumerian culture arose as

Continue Reading

Pottery, swords and jewelry: Rich Stone Age and early medieval graves found in Germany

The discoveries hint that humans occupied the region longer than locals thought. Archaeological treasures, including Stone Age pottery and medieval graves with swords and jewelry, have revealed a long history of human habitation near the Danube River in Germany. At the site, in the Geisingen-Gutmadingen district of Tuttlingen, in southwestern

Continue Reading

The Aztec Empire: History, maps, religion and fall

The Aztec Empire flourished in the Valley of Mexico between A.D. 1325 and 1519 and was the last great civilization before the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century. The Aztec Empire flourished in central Mexico during the Postclassic period of Mesoamerican history, from approximately A.D. 1325 to

Continue Reading

Metal detectorist in UK finds ancient Roman penis pendant

Silver penis pendants like this are rare. A metal detectorist recently discovered a silver, penis-shaped pendant in Kent, England that was likely worn around the neck to protect a person from misfortune around 1,800 years ago. Ancient Roman writers such as Marcus Terentius Varro (lived 116 B.C. to 27 B.C.)

Continue Reading

2020-10-10

Copyright © 2020- OXFORD RESEARCH NEWS || www.oxfordresearchnews.com – All Rights Reserved

error: Content is protected !!