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Expert Comment: The UK’s Autumn budget. Tax rises are coming; let’s design them well

The Chancellor will deliver the Autumn Budget on 26 November 2025. In a pre-Budget statement from Downing Street, Rachel Reeves…

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Saturn’s icy moon may host a stable ocean fit for life, new study finds

A new study led by researchers from Oxford University and Southwest Research Institute and the Planetary Science Institute in…

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Discovery reveals ‘handbrake’ that controls cancer drug response

A world-first discovery, published in the journal Science, rewrites our understanding of how cells control the production of DNA’s…

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Climate policy strengthens globally, despite unprecedented contestation in the US and Europe

Nations and companies have made ambitious climate pledges, but to prevent catastrophic climate change what matters is concrete, implemented,…

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Three Oxford academics awarded European Research Council Consolidator Grants

The application process for ERC Starting Grants is highly competitive: this year, around 14.5% of applications were successful out…

New survey reveals that a quarter of UK adults mistrust others

Researchers from the University of Oxford surveyed a representative group of 10,382 UK adults. It was the most comprehensive…

Research-led support for parents and families affected by war

Advice for parents during humanitarian crises based on research by Oxford experts has been adapted for families affected by…

Professor Lucie Cluver nominated for a prestigious fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences

Professor Cluver’s evidence-based research underpins parenting resources which have provided support for families globally, during the pandemic as well…

Government welcomes university spin-out review co-chaired by Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor

The Government has accepted all the recommendations in the review, which encourages further collaboration across the UK’s innovation ecosystem.…

Large Language Models pose risk to science with false answers, says Oxford study

The paper by Professors Brent Mittelstadt, Chris Russell and Sandra Wachter has been published in Nature Human Behaviour. It…

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