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Scientists create first light-activated synthetic tissues
News
Barclays Helps to Scale-Up the UK: Growing Businesses, Growing Our Economy
Video
Barclays is launching a new report on the future of business scale-ups in the UK. It is part of a long-standing project partnership built with the business schools of both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.
Novel collagen fingerprinting identifies a Neanderthal bone among 2,000 fragments
News
All the tiny pieces of bone were recovered from a key archaeological site, Denisova Cave in Russia, with the remaining fragments found to be from animal species like mammoths, woolly rhino, wolf and reindeer.
Poetry experts mark World Poetry Day
Oxford Arts Blog
Today poetry fans around the world are celebrating World Poetry Day.
To mark the day, we asked poetry experts from our English Faculty and Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages about their own research into poetry, and what poems they recommend we should read today.
Pension cuts have 'significant link' with death rates among older pensioners
News
In England, total spending on Pension Credits (income support payments for low-income pensioners) reduced by 6.5% in 2012. The research investigates why deaths rates for older pensioners, which had been in decline, began to rise again after 2010 and whether this trend was linked to budget cuts.
If you want to quit smoking, do it now
News
Decades of educational expansion 'had little effect on social mobility'
News
He will show that more advantaged families now use their economic, cultural, and social edge to ensure their children stay at the top of the social class ladder.
Health and safety in Tudor England
Oxford Arts Blog
Death is not a laughing matter. But an ongoing study into coroners’ reports into accidental deaths in Tudor England has turned up some deaths which do sound like something out of a slapstick comedy routine.
Three Oxford academics are new Fellows of Academy of Social Sciences
News
The definition of success
News
Better engine, worse compass
News
Are big-city transportation systems too complex for human minds?
News
The 'game-changing' projects at the cutting edge of healthcare technology
News
75 years of penicillin in people
News
0043 – Agent of the no secrets service?
News
Oxford machine learning spinout unlocks big data insights
News
Partnership to test robotic surgical system
News
Oxford awarded £13.5m for DPhil places and further funding for quantum research
News
Home counties blamed for car pollution in the southeast
News
The research, published in the journal Transport Policy, lays out the need for a regional strategy in the southeast to tackle the environmental, transport and planning challenges. If business continues as usual, it says carbon emissions targets will not be met ‘by a large margin’.
Young EU migrants more likely to be in work than their UK peers
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