A surprisingly high number of business and government technology projects are 'ticking time bombs', according to researchers at the University of Oxford. They analysed 1,500 global projects that had revamped ...

Technology - Business

Aug 23, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 3

Marine algae that turn carbon dissolved in seawater into shell will produce thinner and thinner shells as carbon dioxide levels increase.

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 09, 2011 4.2 / 5 (6) 0 |

In reproductive warfare sperm is a male’s ultimate weapon to decide who fathers the next generation.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 03, 2011 4.7 / 5 (3) 2 |

A fifteen-month research project of the earliest surviving geographically recognizable map of Great Britain, known as the Gough Map, provides some revealing insights into one of the most enigmatic cartographic ...

Technology - Internet

Aug 03, 2011 4 / 5 (2) 0

History will be brought alive, thanks to a unique project exploring how the landscape changed and developed in a period spanning the mid Bronze Age to the Normans.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Aug 03, 2011 4.8 / 5 (5) 0

Oxford scientists are aiming to produce a global map of the land owned or revered by the world’s religions. Many of these ‘religious forests’ and sacred sites contain some of the richest biodiversity ...

Biology - Ecology

Aug 01, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 1 |

A new study of plants that are reproduced by ‘cloning’ has shown why cloned plants are not identical.

Biology - Biotechnology

Jul 29, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 1 |

The farther that human populations live from the equator, the bigger their brains, according to a new study by Oxford University. But it turns out that this is not because they are smarter, but because they ...

Biology - Evolution

Jul 27, 2011 4.7 / 5 (12) 26 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Individual Atlantic puffins 'scout out' their own migration routes rather than relying on genetic ‘programming’ or learning routes from a parent, a new study suggests.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 21, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Evolution may lead to males disappearing as they are replaced by 'parasitic fathers' who infect their daughters at birth in order to mate with them.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 15, 2011 4.2 / 5 (5) 1 |

A set of glasses packed with technology normally seen in smartphones and games consoles is the main draw at one of the featured stands at this year’s Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Jul 06, 2011 4 / 5 (11) 2 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Oxford University have shown for the first time that molecular cages made from DNA can enter and survive inside living cells.

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Jul 04, 2011 5 / 5 (6) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Half the elephants from West and Central African savannahs have vanished in the past 40 years, scientists report in PLoS One.

Biology - Ecology

Jun 28, 2011 4.5 / 5 (2) 1

Back in World War II there was a clever idea to use icebergs as floating aircraft carriers, but now we know birds of prey got there first.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 23, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An historical study of the development of irregular verbs in the hundreds of Romance languages including French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Catalan has revealed how these structures ...

Other Sciences - Other

Jun 22, 2011 4 / 5 (7) 1 |