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A collaboration of biologists, chemists and physicists from the Universities of Oxford (UK) and Oldenburg (Germany) have been accumulating evidence that the magnetic sense in night migratory birds, such as the European robin, is based on a specific light‐sensitive protein in the eye.

Collaborative work between the Doye group and Eva González Noya at the Instituto de Química Física Rocasolanohas in Madrid published in Nature.

Ineos, one of the world’s largest manufacturing companies, and the University of Oxford are launching a new institute to tackle the growing worldwide problem of antimicrobial resistance. 

Professors Fernanda Duarte, Andrew Goodwin and Charlotte Williams have been named winners of prizes from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Professor Dame Carol Robinson has been appointed as Director of the new Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery (Kavli INSD).  The new Institute brings together world-leading researchers in biochemistry, structural biology, chemistry, pathology, physics and engineering.

Professor Charlotte Williams OBE and Professor Stanley Whittingham, Nobel Laureate and Oxford Chemistry alumnus, are newly elected Fellows of the Royal Society.

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