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Videos
- Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's superalloys!
- Lessons from Lockdown Energy Use
- The Winchcombe Meteorite - One Year On
- Origami Inspiration - 3D Printing and Robots
- Doing a PhD on Your Hobby - Scooters
- Assessing Healthcare Outcomes with GENDER-Q
- The Shape of Water?
- Why do I feel sleepy in winter?
- Why do I always spill my coffee?
- A New View on Cancer
- Lockdown Walks - Is this a fossil I see before me?
- Lockdown Walks - Walk Your Worries Away!
- Lockdown Walks - Disappearing Bugs
- Lockdown Walks - Meet Your Bird Neighbours
- Lockdown Walks - Spring Plants
- Lockdown Walks - Urban Stargazing
- Lockdown Walks - The Mysteries of Ice
- The RainDrop Experiment
- Electricity Access for All
- Electric Vehicles and the Future
- Coping with voices: Being with people
- Lockdown Walks - What's that solar panel doing?
- Lockdown Walks - What's the secret behind Autumn colours?
- Lockdown Walks - Who's that American in the woods?
- Seabird Monitoring - Witnesses in the wild
- Lockdown Walks - How can I spot a badger?
- Lockdown Walks - What's up with those clouds?
- Understanding Covid-19 transmission, informing control
- Changing plant chloroplasts to improve crop performance
- Mechanobiology - the stress of life
- Using your science to understand volcanic eruptions
- Using your science to explore the climate history of Mars
- Using your science to reveal how much rain fell on the dinosaurs
- Our mysterious ocean floor
- How do unborn babies and mothers communicate via the placenta?
- Hardy Crops to Tackle Food Insecurity
- What is Machine Learning?
Podcasts
- How do you create autonomous robots that can investigate under the sea?
- How do you grow the perfect tomato?
- How is misinformation about the war in Ukraine spreading?
- How does a pandemic end?
- Why do we develop bad habits?
- Is the energy crisis going to get worse?
- Is ordering a pizza bad for the climate?
- How do you monitor mosquitoes using their sound?
- How can we improve endometriosis treatment?
- Why build a magnetically shielded room?
- Why is Rudolph's nose red?
- How do you tackle hate speech one emoji at a time?
- Umm...Should I be wearing a mask?
- How can satellites prevent mining disasters?
- How do you stop megafires?
- Could chocolate go extinct?
- Should all robots have an ethical black box?
- Is a snack tax on the horizon?
- What's an arboretum anyway?
- Did the pandemic make us moodier?
- Will climate change kill off the great tits?
- Can we build an eco-friendly aeroplane?
- Why are we searching for water on the moon?
- Has lockdown made me bad at sleeping?
- Do all lions sound the same?
- When did dogs become our best friends?
- Who should get the vaccine first?
- Should we edit genes to make nicer people?
- Are video games good for my mental health?
- Should I buy a real or a fake Christmas tree?
- How do I win Fantasy Football?
- How is technology being used to track Black Lives Matter protestors?
- Can celebrities save the pangolin?
- What does the 'R Rate' really mean?
- How do you measure pain?
- How are we using energy in lockdown?
- Why is Oxford's Botanic Garden making gin?
- How tricky is it to make a COVID-19 tracing app?
- How do you fight malaria in the back of a van?
- What's in the Indian Ocean?
- Should we trust scientists?
- How garlicky is your garlic?
- What does my family want to know about coronavirus?
- Can we diagnose heart attacks faster?
- Can data find me a date?
- Who was Henrietta Leavitt?
- Can we stop ageing?
- Why do diets fail?
- What's under Lapland?
- Why should we cuddle?
- Does love have a scent?
Scientists
- Nick Hawes
- Anna Bidgood
- Rebecca Garnett
- Christian Norton
- Aliaksandr Herasimenka
- Victoria Strutt
- Erica Charters
- Charlotte Collingwood
- Mike Clark
- Eleanor Hammond
- Marianne Sinka
- Chenying Liu
- Sebastian Pearson
- Lydia Coxon
- Rakhshan Kamran
- James Bryson
- Hannah Rose Kirk
- Julia Lindsay
- Melinda Mills
- Sophie Abrahams
- Imma Oliveras Menor
- Mafalda Santos
- Tanesha Allen
- Ainslie Johnstone
- Ingmar Posner
- Stephen Roberts
- Jen Lawson
- Mike Dodd
- Aprajita Verma
- Imad AM Ahmed
- Peter Grindrod
- Elspeth Garman
- Nicola Smart
- Lauren Bandy
- Helena Webb
- Tristram Warren
- Pat Irwin
- Gabriel Gallardo
- Brian D. Earp
- Nikol Lambeva
- Lynda Coughlan
- Mason A. Porter
- Jen Perry
- Gladys C Ngetich
- Marie-Claire Koschowitz
- Patrick Garfjeld Roberts
- Kathrin Cohen Kadosh
- Colin Espie
- Donal Hill
- Brianna Heazlewood
- Andy Hector
- David Howey
- Christl Donnelly
- Annette Fayet
- Seth Flaxman
- Sean Elias
- Sally Le Page
- Anya Topiwala
- Bryony Sheaves
- Andrew Carr
- Matthew Wijers
- Chris Lintott
- Barley Rose Collier Harris
- Amanda Cooper-Sarkar
- Anjuli R. K. Shere
- Scott Fernquest
- Ben Jones
- Charles Spence
- Shahnaz Hoque
- Greger Larson
- John Frater
- Lucy Woodall
- Gaia Scerif
- Phil Grünewald
- Yee Whye Teh
- Matt Sutton
- Tingting Zhu
- Brigitte Stenhouse
- Robin Dunbar
- Holly Bridge
- George Busby
- Jessica Lam
- Dr Alan Barr
- Nhu Nguyen
- Qihua Ling
- Thomas Woolley
- Claudine Tinsman
- Brooke Johnson
- Clarence Yapp
- Jane Hurley
- Christina Potter
- Siôn Glyn-Jones
- Katerina Johnson
- Alberto Giubilini
- Neva Kandzija
- Nigel Shadbolt
- Thomas Smith
- Alegria Olmedo
- Susann Stritzke
- Charlotte Deane
- Hayley Tumas
- Jonny Brooks-Bartlett
- Luke Jew
- Dr. Alize Pennec
- Ross Gales
- Susan Canney
- Cedric Tan
- Rick Hamilton
- Tamsin Mather
- Mark S Thompson
- Allison Daley
- Neil Bowles
- Shamit Shrivastava
- Clara Barker
- Tom Hart
- Sneha Malde
- Alistair Miles
- Jennifer Rogers
- Emily Warner
- Orfeas Kypris
- Michael Browning
- William Hawthorne
- Aura Raulo
- Seena Fazel
- Sara Lil Middleton
- Jane Langdale
- Simon Hiscock
- Philip Maini
- Grant Blank
- Kit Yates
- Tim Softley
- Becky Smethurst
- Joe Woodman
- Merel Lefferts
- Simon Myers
- Shimon Whiteson
- Gil McVean
- Ben Williams
- Philip Fowler
- Serena Dai
- Barbara Maher
- Heidi de Wet
- Rachel Tanner
- Harriet Ibbett
- Anna Brookfield
- Ritwika (Ricky) Sengupta
- Thomas Moorhouse
- Emmanuelle Dankwa
- Benjamin Brecht
- Shazeaa Ishmael
- Dorothy Bishop
- Nando de Freitas
- Anna Machin
- Brian Sheil
- Robert Taylor
- Kate Watkins
- Andrew Mellor
- Jamie Hartmann-Boyce
- Tin Hang (Henry) Hung
- William Seymour
- Tim Coulson
- Christopher Hollings
- Mark Walton
- Katherine Shirley
- Michele Veldsman
- Hugh Watkins
- Andrew Markham
- Chris Thorogood
- Min Chen
- Stuart Peirson
- Anouk van Maris
- Josh Nunn
- Anna Michell
- Kieran Clarke
- Victoria Griffiths
- Brian Zimmerman
- Stuart Clare
- Colin Wilson
- Andy Segerdahl
- Rob Salguero-Gómez
- Paul Jarvis
- Paris Stefanoudis
- Jack Haley
- E.J. Milner-Gulland
- Hindolo George-Williams
- Diogo Veríssimo
- Andrew Przybylski
- Pete Walton
- David A. Clifton
- Hazel Hall-Roberts
- Jason Nurse
- Jena Meinecke
- Eleanor Bath
- Brian Mackenwells
- Catherine Green
- Michele Paulatto
- Kylie Vincent
- Sebastian Bonilla
- Christopher Jeffs
- Hannah Christensen
- Menisha Patel
- Hyunjik Kim
- Alison Woollard
- Lucy Kissick
- Kia Nobre
- Priyanka Dhopade
- Clare Bycroft
- Vinoy Ramachandran
- Pascal Gehring
- Ian Hewitt
- Dr Neil Ashton
- Malcolm John
- Mohit Dalwadi
- Ignacio (Nacho) Juarez Martínez
- Alex Jamieson
- Aislin Sheldon
- Alex Rogers
- Matthew Charles
- Hayley Morris
- Holly Reeve
- Aché Atta-Boateng
- Martin Strohmeier
- Mukta Deobagkar
- Pierre-Alexis Mouthuy
- Christine Blancher
- Eleanor Stride
- Roi Cohen Kadosh
- Jessica Bruce (Leitch)
- Garret Cotter
- Tom Crawford
- Sam Henry
- Tony Watts
- Alan Winfield
- Charlotte Regan
- Joelle Boutari
- Jennifer Le Roy
- Fiona Jones
- Marina Jirotka
- Morgan Wade
- Roxana Shafiee
- Maximilian Scheuplein
- Dianne Newbury
- Tess Johnson
- Joshua Bull
- Nadescha Trudel
- Melis Anatürk
- Tristram Wyatt
- Heidi Johansen-Berg
- Chris Harvey
- Max Taquet
- Kevin Foster
- Bryony Graham
- Chiara Falsetti
- Jennifer Wild
- Emilia Cecylia Skirmuntt
- Andrew Powell
- Benjamin Fernando
- Georgie Humphreys
- Louise Aukland
- Richard G. Compton
- David Pyle
- Stuart Wigby
- Patrick Gildersleve
News
- Major boost for Oxford’s mission to counter future pandemic threats
- 50-year project reveals new insights about the evolution and influence of Voltaire's thought
- New reporting guidelines developed to improve AI in healthcare settings
- Rainforest trees may have been dying faster since the 1980s because of climate change - study
- Honorary degree recipients for 2022 announced
- Prince Charles opens new Levine Building at Trinity College
- Oxford’s REF 2021 results show largest volume of world-leading research
- Eight Oxford researchers elected to Royal Society
- Bank of America in key partnership with Oxford’s Smith School to support climate and sustainable finance research
- Professor Irene Tracey CBE FMedSci nominated as next Oxford Vice-Chancellor
- Sale of donkey skins linked to trade in illegal wildlife products
- Dairy products linked to increased risk of cancer
- Dairy products linked to increased risk of cancer
- Fully funded scholarship scheme launches for graduate students from Ukraine
- DeepMind CEO to give lecture on AI's potential for scientific discovery
- Oxford University launches the Astrophoria Foundation Year for underrepresented students
- Neither detection nor control of high blood pressure improved by self-monitoring during pregnancy
- Breakthrough in treatment for Dupuytren’s disease
- LEGO Foundation gives £11 million in support of international parenting initiative
- CAMS Oxford Institute unveiled at virtual ceremony
- Oxford scientist named Australian of the Year in the UK
- Call the Academic: Oxford researcher wins BBC centenary grant for project exploring long-running ‘Midwife’ drama
- Call the Academic: Oxford researcher wins BBC centenary grant for project exploring long-running ‘Midwife’ drama
- 75 years of the influential Great Tit study at Wytham Woods
- Expert Comment: Five new(s) and five olds in the sixth IPCC report on mitigating climate change
- Multi-million pound European grants for four ‘excellent research leaders’ at Oxford
- Sapphire fibre could enable cleaner energy and air-travel
- Expert Comment: Putin’s Russia: people increasingly identify with the Soviet Union – here’s what that means
- Researchers assess Oxford University's impacts on biodiversity and how to mitigate them
- No rest for new elephant mothers
- Protease inhibitors safer than thought for pregnant women with HIV
- Government gives £15 million to build software and computer systems at the heart of a new international telescope system
- New W boson measurement deviates from the Standard Model
- Abused children who were adopted did ‘significantly better’ than those brought up in care – research
- Breakthrough success in provision of automated psychological therapy using virtual reality
- Oxford men's crew claim victory in 2022 Boat Race after Cambridge women’s win
- Oxford University retains top spot for spinout generation in the UK
- Nature prefers symmetry and simplicity
- New award will empower students from underrepresented groups to excel in future careers
- No increased risk of brain tumours for mobile phone users, new study finds
- Little understood brain region linked to how we perceive pain
- Negative impact of social media affects girls and boys at different ages – study
- Delaying clean energy transition would be ‘lose-lose’ for UK energy security, households and the climate
- New study finds giant predatory dinosaurs could hunt underwater
- Expert Comment. Ukraine war: Putin’s masterclass in delusion, denial and defeat
- Oxford launches new Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
- The RECOVERY Trial - two years on
- The RECOVERY Trial is two years old today
- Oxford launches new multi-disciplinary ZERO Institute
- British Academy creates new ‘oracy’ fellowship - to investigate levelling up through talk
- Oxford researchers' index shows international healthcare systems becoming more universal
- Researchers develop the world's first power-free frequency tuner using nanomaterials
- Largest genetic study of pleural infection reveals complex nature of common disease
- Expert Comment: Economic sanctions are not likely immediately to shift Russian opinion against Putin
- Expert Comment: How ordinary Ukrainian families are suffering under Russian shells
- Expert Comment: Putin’s war - How did we get here? ....Ukraine 2014
- Oxford further commits to best research practice by joining UKRN
- First UK pilot study of newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy launched in Oxford
- Oxford historians apply state-of-the-art AI to transform the study of ancient texts
- Historians apply state-of-the-art AI to transform the study of ancient texts
- Oxford University receives planning permission for the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
- Oxford University receives planning permission for the new Humanities building
- Expert Comment: The UK is failing to meet its obligations to refugees from Ukraine
- Expert Comment: How history will look back on Russian invasion
- Oral paratyphoid vaccine to begin human trials
- Professor Lynne Cox helps lead UK project to transform older age health
- Brain regions related to smell show decline following mild COVID-19
- Expert Comment: Ukraine has earned a future in the European Union
- Rabies vaccine candidate begins human trials in Tanzania
- Large mammals can help climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Large mammals can help climate change mitigation and adaptation
- RECOVERY trial shows Baricitinib reduces deaths in patients hospitalised with COVID-19
- Moral questions - and answers - around helping Ukraine, nuclear deterrents and self-defence
- Moral questions - and answers - around helping Ukraine, assassinating murderous leaders and nuclear threats
- COVID-19 Multi-omic Blood Atlas (COMBAT) published
- Ukraine crisis: new research-led support for 'hero' parents and caregivers
- The hidden footprint of low-carbon indoor farming
- Two years on: Covid-19 threatens to derail the prospects for a generation in the global south - report
- Art for our sake: Artists cannot be replaced by machines - study
- Oxford-based charity receives more than $2.5 billion in pledges from 'community of effective givers'
- DeepMind donation creates 12 new research internships in artificial intelligence and machine learning
- New study shows significant impacts of severe COVID-19 infection on pregnancy outcomes
- Too many words, too little action: climate justice is essential to limit climate change - IPCC chapter author
- Too many words, too little action: climate justice is essential to limit climate change
- Competing identities of the past and future in Russia and Ukraine
- University of Oxford researchers create largest ever human family tree
- New Oxford-Lancaster guidelines to improve practice when babies are separated from parents at birth
- US Stand Your Ground laws are associated with 700 additional homicides every year
- Researchers find genetic ‘fingerprints’ of ancient migrations in modern-day United Arab Emirates
- Review highlights impact of Long COVID on cardiovascular system
- Everyone has heard of King Arthur, but 90% of medieval manuscripts of chivalric and heroic tales have been lost
- Three University of Oxford Earth Scientists honoured with the title of Geochemistry Fellow
- A rapid climate response from science is essential
- Global study launched to evaluate effects of Covid-19 variants and vaccination in pregnancy
- Oxford fast-paced research programme for environmental solutions wins £10 million official backing
- Sarah Gilbert becomes recipient of Sunhak Peace Prize
- We need to define the rules of a post-pandemic world
- New postdoctoral global scholarships at Oxford funded by British Academy
- Unlocking the mechanical secrets of giant Amazonian waterlilies
- Seismometer technology field-tested in Antarctica before space missions
- Oxford University establishes the Jonathan Cooper Professor of the History of Sexualities
- First-in-human implant of a “closed-loop” bioelectronic research system
- First-in-human implant of a “closed-loop” bioelectronic research system
- New adaptable smart window coating could help heat or cool a home and save energy
- Students can thrive and reach their full potential at Oxford with new Dr Ateh Jewel Education Foundation Award
- Researchers and charities team up to support local families by creating free toddler activity packs
- Research collaboration launched to focus on repurposing existing anti-viral therapies to treat COVID-19
- New highly virulent and damaging HIV variant discovered in the Netherlands
- Unprecedented crises trigger severe hunger in southern Ethiopia
- Positive impact of funding research in mental health
- Climate change in the Early Holocene - archaeology report
- Reed warblers migrating from Africa use the Earth's magnetic field to find their nests
- Sarah Gilbert elected as RA Honorary Fellow
- The Duchess of Cornwall opens new Marcela Botnar wing in Oxford
- Volunteers needed for human challenge trial to study immune response to Covid-19
- Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall tours special treasures of The Bodleian Libraries
- Invest strategically in wind and solar farms in Africa - Oxford study
- Stress for couples on Universal Credit as living costs soar - new research
- Volunteers needed for human challenge trial to study immune response to Covid-19
- Mixed vaccine schedules offer strong booster responses after two doses of CoronaVac vaccine
- Mystery of sweetpotato origin uncovered, as missing link plant found by Oxford research
- Cancer Research UK to invest £11 million into cancer science in Oxford
- An estimated 1.2 million people died in 2019 from antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections
- Royal Society cautions against online censorship of scientific misinformation
- Oxford researchers discover unexpected deep diving in albatross
- University of Oxford Earth Scientist honoured in the annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
- Review highlights risk factors associated with violence in schizophrenia
- Attention and memory deficits persist for months after recovery from mild Covid
- Plastic Drawdown tool to help Maldives slash plastic waste by 85 percent, study reveals
- Treasured Jane Austen letters donated to the Bodleian Libraries and Jane Austen’s House
- Dramatic fall in hospital admissions for child infections since start of covid-19 pandemic
- New Dean for Saïd Business School announced
- New research sheds light on how ultrasound could be used to treat psychiatric disorders
- Undergraduate offers released amid strong competition for places
- New Head of the Humanities Division announced
- Leverhulme Trust awards £10 million to new Oxford nature recovery centre
- Superbug MRSA arose in hedgehogs long before clinical use of antibiotics
- New study finds economic progress is aided by longer supply chains and deeper networks
- New test can identify if a patient has cancer and if it has spread
- New Year's Honours 2022
- Safer carbon capture and storage
- Oxford team publish blueprint for making millions of doses of a new vaccine within 100 days
- New approach to predicting battery failure could help maintain electricity for millions around the world
- £50m funding for Poonawalla Vaccines Research Building at Oxford University
- Protein test could lead to earlier and better diagnosis of Parkinson’s
- New resistance-busting antibiotic combination could extend the use of ‘last-resort’ antibiotics
- COVID-19 certificates may boost vaccine uptake in countries with below average coverage – Oxford study
- Vaccines shown to induce lower levels of neutralising antibodies against Omicron coronavirus variant
- RECOVERY Trial launches in South Africa
- 90% of countries have published vaccine plans: Oxford Covid policy tracker
- Adjoa Andoh named as next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre
- Key surveys overestimate COVID-19 vaccination rates in the USA
- We can accelerate vaccine production through partnerships that promote knowledge sharing
- Major report points way to a more resilient UK food system
- Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert delivers 44th Dimbleby Lecture
- Iron integral to the development of life on Earth – and the possibility of life on other planets
- Com-COV2 study supports flexible second dose options following Pfizer or Oxford/AstraZeneca jabs
- Meta must do better - data from social media giant essential to mental health research
- Meta could do better - data from social media giant essential to mental health research
- Prizes announced for inaugural creative writing award founded by Nobel Prize laureate
- Oxford researchers honoured by British Society for Immunology
- Oxford study shows government programme increases pupil focus on careers
- New Oxford-GSK Institute to harness advanced technology and unravel mechanisms of disease
- Machine learning helps mathematicians make new connections
- Oxford investigators part of urgent new economic and social research programme
- Tributes to pioneering Oxford innovator, Sir Martin Wood
- Jenner Institute named Covid Innovation Heroes
- Oxford University wins prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize
- ‘Another War Is Coming’, Kate Bingham DBE, delivers Romanes lecture
- Oxford and Cambridge win joint award to improve access to postgraduate research
- Island conservationists identify key barriers to meeting biodiversity targets
- IKEA Foundation pledges £4.5m to back Oxford sustainable finance action
- Space @ Oxford Week blasts off on Monday 22 November
- Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) celebrates three years of innovation
- Professor Louise Richardson to become President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2023
- Planning application for new Humanities building reveal inspirational design
- Life on Mars search could be misled by false fossils
- Oxford-led research maps milestone stage of human development for the first time
- Oxford science relaunches digital channel Oxford Sparks to open its secrets to the world
- Artificial intelligence used to recognise primate behaviours in the wild
- New joint Oxford-Wits project to study human mobility in Global South
- COP26: Don't forget the successes - Oxford experts
- $2m fund awarded for Oxford’s single-cell ancestry vaccine research
- Global antibiotic consumption rates increased by 46 percent since 2000
- Oxford vaccine reaches two billion dose milestone
- Oxford scientists announced as guest Christmas Lecturers
- Digital Scholarship @Oxford: Transforming digital research
- Ebola vaccine to begin human trials
- Finally: COP considers cities and the climate crisis
- Sustainable eating is cheaper and healthier - Oxford study
- Facebook reveals number of migrants in the UK has been underestimated
- Oxford joins consortium to advance quantum drug discovery with £6.8M grant from Innovate UK
- Researchers uncover gene that doubles risk of death from COVID-19
- Next Warden of Keble College announced
- New software predicts the movements of large land animals
- Construction gets underway at Oxford’s Life and Mind Building
- 80% of world economy now aiming for net zero - but not all pledges are equal
- Oxford to work with Brazil to establish clinical research hub
- Nicola Blackwood appointed Chair of Oxford University Innovation board
- Early education and development ‘levelled up’ in 21st century - study
- Oxford to test potential treatment for fatigue in long COVID patients
- PTSD in healthcare workers during pandemic could be exacerbated by past trauma
- Major new research network to investigate the body clock and stroke
- Dieter Schwarz Foundation and Oxford announce major research collaboration on artificial intelligence, government and policy
- Dine and dash? Global COVID recovery investment is not aligned with COP rhetoric
- Oxford food experts work with Tesco on sustainable plant-based meals
- Wearing face coverings protected wearers from COVID-19 infection – large scale study
- Oxford-led team given £6.6m to map uncharted networks in the progression of Parkinson’s
- Tamoxifen repurposing study shows no benefit in treating deadly fungal meningitis
- UNEP emissions gap report: Damning findings on G20 ambition and post-Covid green finance