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Discovery of CoRoT-9b: a cool transiting Jupiter

18 Mar 10
Author comments on blood pressure variability and stroke as published in Lancet and Lancet Neurology

12 Mar 10
Measuring a mother’s love: mother is ‘more essential’ than breadwinner father

12 Mar 10
Who should get the bouquet on Sunday? Mothers or grandmothers?

12 Mar 10
Experts on 10th anniversary of the first draft human genome

11 Mar 10
Report puts electoral systems under the microscope

10 Mar 10
Millennium Development Goals being 'missed' due to narrow disease focus

02 Mar 10
New evidence shows populations survived the Toba super-eruption 74,000 years ago

22 Feb 10
Images for Toba super-eruption story

22 Feb 10
Irish and British researchers uncover DNA genome sequence of extinct ancient cattle

19 Feb 10
Fossils net plankton-eating giant

19 Feb 10
New method makes vaccines stable at tropical temperatures

18 Feb 10
Nominations for next Professor of Poetry open

18 Feb 10
Hairy secret of foraging plants discovered

17 Feb 10
Images for giant plankton-eater story

16 Feb 10
Applications open for Oxford’s new UNIQ Summer Schools

10 Feb 10
Experts on voting behaviour and elections

09 Feb 10

Experts on voting behaviour and British elections
Fossils show earliest animal trails

03 Feb 10
Images of fossilised trails

03 Feb 10
Doctors need to take note of parental concern, one of several red flags that can indicate a serious childhood infection

03 Feb 10
Oxford announces honorary degrees for 2010

02 Feb 10
Final consultation on Iffley Road sports complex

27 Jan 10
Studies of cancer stem cells can forge ahead thanks to Oxford research

26 Jan 10
New Oxford institute will be a centre of excellence for research into fertility and reproduction

21 Jan 10
Search for ice sheet ‘tipping point’

13 Jan 10
Study identifies genes associated with common type of arthritis

10 Jan 10
Combination therapy better than leading drug for bipolar disorder

23 Dec 09
African leaf-eating primates are ‘likely to be wiped out’ by climate change

17 Dec 09
Oxford University centre to run the Commission on Ownership

16 Dec 09
University of Oxford to launch Master's in Law and Finance

14 Dec 09
Oxford begins search for next Professor of Poetry

09 Dec 09
Updated Hubble reveals most distant galaxies yet

09 Dec 09
Web search and 'everyware' targeted by Oxford scientists

07 Dec 09
Why is India developing solar power so slowly?

03 Dec 09
The quest for lost gems

03 Dec 09
International conference in Oxford asks 'what do atheists believe?'

02 Dec 09
Is making carbon 'SAFE' the answer?

30 Nov 09
Public sector workers ‘more likely to have baby due to family-friendly policies’

29 Nov 09
Selling antibiotic eye drops at chemists has seen a 50% increase in their use

27 Nov 09
‘Cosmic fruit machine’ matches collisions

24 Nov 09
Leading Italian news publisher says conflict between press and Prime Minister in Italy is 'a question that concerns all our democracies'

24 Nov 09
Queen's Anniversary Prize for Oxford University's museums, libraries and archives

18 Nov 09
Ethics academic pledges £1 million of career salary to charity

12 Nov 09
Climate change experts

12 Nov 09

Climate change experts at the University of Oxford
Developed countries ‘must finance low carbon technology’ in China and India

11 Nov 09
Siegfried Sassoon electronic collection launches

09 Nov 09
Oxford scientists ask if biodiversity is persisting in the face of climate change

05 Nov 09
New TV series explores history of Christianity

04 Nov 09
Drug that increases good cholesterol reduces clogging of arteries

03 Nov 09
Record application numbers for Oxford University

02 Nov 09
Archaeologists uncover prehistoric landscape beneath Oxford

30 Oct 09
Wiser OWL learns to unravel doctor talk

27 Oct 09
First Indigenous Australian students to attend Oxford University

27 Oct 09
Lifetime achievement award for Oxford Professor Vernon Bogdanor

25 Oct 09
Get astronomer’s view of the night’s sky

22 Oct 09
Live countdown to the trillionth tonne

22 Oct 09
Our evolutionary past may hold the key to understanding how we choose our leaders

21 Oct 09
Enrolment nearing completion in swine flu vaccine study

21 Oct 09
Oxford University's 21st century campus revealed

20 Oct 09
Oxford to welcome new Royal Society Professors

20 Oct 09
Our evolutionary past may hold the key to understanding how we choose our leaders

20 Oct 09
Remote-controlled flies point to what memories are made of

20 Oct 09
Enrolment nearing completion in swine flu vaccine study

20 Oct 09
Stephen Garrett named Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media

14 Oct 09
Mobile service ‘puts Oxford University in your pocket’

12 Oct 09
Juggling enhances connections in the brain

12 Oct 09
Images for Mobile Oxford story

12 Oct 09
‘Why would you read Twilight?’: Sample questions give an insight into Oxford interviews

08 Oct 09
How are mobile phones and online social networks changing the way we behave?

07 Oct 09
Planning permission granted on Radcliffe Observatory Quarter

06 Oct 09
Lead author explains BMJ study on smoking during pregnancy and social inequality in stillbirths and infant deaths

02 Oct 09
Incoming Oxford Vice-Chancellor starts work

01 Oct 09
Monkeys' grooming habits provide new clues to how we network and socialise

30 Sep 09
Government must return Northern Rock to the mutual sector, says Oxford report

27 Sep 09
Tax relief, trusts and regulation: protecting the diversity of local and regional news

22 Sep 09
World Car Free Day - Ways to get more of us out of our cars

22 Sep 09
Journalists need 'new, collaborative ways to tell stories'

18 Sep 09
Secrets of long-haul insect flight revealed

17 Sep 09
HIV’s ancestors ‘plagued first mammals’

17 Sep 09
Team athletes have higher endorphin release when they train together

16 Sep 09
Image & video for insect flight story

15 Sep 09
Author Philip Pullman unveils new Bodleian grotesques based on children's designs

14 Sep 09
Rival bird species evolve to sing the same tune

09 Sep 09
Images for Yasa electric motor spin-out

09 Sep 09
Images & audio for birds sing same tune release

03 Sep 09
Are tigers 'brainier' than lions?

02 Sep 09
Oxford park ‘has best views in Universe’

25 Aug 09
Cut marks on bone from Kent’s Cavern suggest mortuary rituals of Early Britons

12 Aug 09
Scientists explain why birds get sex on the brain in the Spring

12 Aug 09
Oxford researcher adds music to Dover Castle restoration

04 Aug 09
Men who are happy to do housework are more likely to get the girl

03 Aug 09
Wind estimate ‘shortens Saturn’s day by five minutes’

29 Jul 09
Oxford’s first top honours student in beginners’ Russian

29 Jul 09
Transparent aluminium is ‘new state of matter’

26 Jul 09
Oxford University shows support for LGBT staff

22 Jul 09
Mutation causing one type of male infertility found

20 Jul 09
African men who have sex with men are ostracised from HIV services

20 Jul 09
Oxford choir sings for Harry Potter film

16 Jul 09
Tighten up definition of ‘public interest’ to safeguard privacy

13 Jul 09
'Save lives' by spending £115 per head to get jobless into work

08 Jul 09
Oxygen key to ‘cut and paste’ of genes

03 Jul 09
Genetic changes involved in learning disability identified

26 Jun 09
Recognise key role of migrant care workers in our ageing society says study

25 Jun 09
Oxford University plans ‘personalised healthcare for life’

25 Jun 09
Definition of a refugee needs updating, report tells United Nations

25 Jun 09
WCSJ Madgalen event scientist profiles

24 Jun 09
Survey suggests proportion of Britons reading online news has doubled in two years

22 Jun 09
Survey reveals why some people are saying 'No thanks' to Digital Britain

22 Jun 09
Study suggests a gulf between how the news is portrayed and public experience

15 Jun 09
International network receives $20m to combat malaria drug resistance

11 Jun 09
How spreading cancers establish themselves in the brain

10 Jun 09
Scientists call for limits on cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide

10 Jun 09
Largest review of 14-19 education and training in England and Wales for 50 years

09 Jun 09
Oxford tops external research income

09 Jun 09
Why musicians fear the recording studio

08 Jun 09
Beehive fence deters elephant raiders

04 Jun 09
Images of beehive fence

04 Jun 09
Oxford celebrates Sir Isaiah Berlin centenary

02 Jun 09
Global links will breed more dangerous parasites

28 May 09
A shock to the system: Report into the Freedom of Information Act 2000

20 May 09
Small risk of violence in schizophrenia unless drugs and alcohol are involved

20 May 09
How religious beliefs become radicalised: the dramatic rise of female madrasas

14 May 09
New people power of digital information technology undermines reputations of the institutions of political and corporate power.

12 May 09
Oxford electric motor set for track tests

07 May 09
Images of new electric motor

07 May 09
Bumblebee flight ‘triumph of power over finesse’

06 May 09
Bumblebee images

06 May 09
Ash shows past eruptions ‘underestimated’

05 May 09
Chaiten volcano images

05 May 09
‘The world’s oldest manufactured beads’ are older than previously thought

01 May 09
Thaleia Zariphopoulou to become first Man Professor of Quantitative Finance

29 Apr 09
‘Save the trillionth tonne’: Scientists present new challenges for climate change policy

29 Apr 09
New 'gene' identified that may increase susceptibility to autism

29 Apr 09
Work-life balance better in the 18th century

27 Apr 09
Oxford University announces new summer schools

24 Apr 09
Quantum cat’s ‘whiskers’ offer advanced sensors

24 Apr 09
Tahiti corals clue to ‘dynamic’ glaciers

24 Apr 09
New international study targets healthy development of unborn babies

24 Apr 09
New TB vaccine candidate enters Phase IIb proof-of-concept trial in South Africa

22 Apr 09
Meditation provides hope for people with depression

21 Apr 09
Study into how the credit crunch is hitting British business and customers

20 Apr 09
Duke of Kent visits Oxford laboratories

15 Apr 09
Sex rivals fuel 'chemical warfare' in flies

14 Apr 09
Moths biodiversity images

07 Apr 09
Hedgerow trees ‘key to UK biodiversity’

07 Apr 09
Lion skull image

30 Mar 09
Family tree of UK’s ‘super-sized lions’ revealed

30 Mar 09
Two Caribbean islands become test-beds for $35m climate change project

23 Mar 09
21st century plans for Bodleian Library

17 Mar 09
JM Coetzee to visit Oxford University

12 Mar 09
Rainforest duets are a ‘battle of the sexes’

12 Mar 09
Futurist offers Oxford University $50 million in matched funding

12 Mar 09
Oxford Humanities receives more than £30m in funding

12 Mar 09
Sir Roger Bannister starts Oxford relays

11 Mar 09
Antbird images and audio

09 Mar 09
Nigel Portwood appointed as new Chief Executive of Oxford University Press

06 Mar 09
Study argues development aid is not effective if basic human security is threatened

05 Mar 09
Oxford University launches science podcast

03 Mar 09
£1.75 million gift to Wadham

02 Mar 09
Prime Minister visits University of Oxford

27 Feb 09
Oxford Humanities awarded US funding of almost £3 million

20 Feb 09
OXFORD APPOINTS NEW PRO-VICE-CHANCELLOR FOR RESEARCH

19 Feb 09
Meningitis bacteria dress up as human cells to evade our immune system

18 Feb 09
Web users to write ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxies’

17 Feb 09
Study assesses whether climate change will kill the Amazon rainforest

09 Feb 09
Oxford celebrates Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday

05 Feb 09
Oxford Professor of Internet Studies appointed Chair of Ofcom Advisory Committee

05 Feb 09
Oxford announces honorary degrees for 2009

05 Feb 09
Government funding for global study of childhood poverty

30 Jan 09
Oxford launches search for next Professor of Poetry

22 Jan 09
Oxford administrator installs sculpture in University building

20 Jan 09
Mass privatisation in the post-communist world may have cost up to one million lives

15 Jan 09
Prestigious medicine prize awarded to Oxford University researcher

14 Jan 09
Tigers ‘took the Silk Road’ to Russia

14 Jan 09
‘Tetris’ may help reduce flashbacks to traumatic events

06 Jan 09
Oxford University to return remains of the Ngarrindjeri people to Australia.

16 Dec 08
Large earthquakes trigger a surge in volcanic eruptions

08 Dec 08
Discovery of new gene associated with diabetes risk suggests link with body clock

07 Dec 08
Oxford Professor appointed to new US Climate Committee

04 Dec 08
Lemur virus reveals HIV’s evolution

03 Dec 08
New treatment approach may offer end to suffering from allergies

02 Dec 08
World's first credit crunch?

27 Nov 08
Lifetime achievement award for Oxford Professor Vernon Bogdanor

25 Nov 08
Global survey shows scepticism about perceived moves by IASB to full fair value accounting

24 Nov 08
Oxford to accept Engineering applications from Advanced Diploma students

20 Nov 08
Kenyan malaria researcher benefits from Oxford University support

18 Nov 08
Biomedical research at Oxford University enters new era

11 Nov 08
Ethiopian wolf images

10 Nov 08
Rabies ‘barrier’ to save rare wolf

10 Nov 08
Staying well after depression

05 Nov 08
Marriage, single prison cells and mental illness associated with higher suicide risk in prisoners

04 Nov 08
Tools give earlier date for ‘modern-thinking’ humans

30 Oct 08
Professor Marcus du Sautoy appointed as the Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science

28 Oct 08
Hybrid quantum memory breaks 1 second barrier

22 Oct 08
New role as Oxford history undergraduate for actress Joanne Pearce

15 Oct 08
Sixth formers have a taste of life as a law student at Oxford

14 Oct 08
Call centre agents get too personal

13 Oct 08
Website shares experiences of Parkinson's and autism

13 Oct 08
New centre for theology, ethics and public life opens

10 Oct 08
Unique fossils capture 'Cambrian migration'

09 Oct 08
Cambrian migration images

06 Oct 08
Student doodles reveal college life in the 50s

03 Oct 08
Understanding embryo implantation offers insight into infertility

29 Sep 08
Oxford's new choral professor wins Gramophone award

25 Sep 08
Academic launches unique Spanish theatre translation project

24 Sep 08
Meditation and psychotherapy together could help with health anxiety that affects 5% of population

24 Sep 08
Power of journalism in Africa

23 Sep 08
Former BBC journalist and head of policy is new Director at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

17 Sep 08
Wild dogs reveal nature's 'poverty trap'

15 Sep 08
Intensive glucose control after diagnosis of type 2 diabetes has long-term benefits

10 Sep 08
Vitamin B12 may protect the brain in old age

09 Sep 08
Oxford leads the way in campaign to promote low-energy homes and cut fuel bills

08 Sep 08
Human trials of universal flu vaccine begin

05 Sep 08
High incidence of mental disorders revealed in young offender institutions

03 Sep 08
Oxford maestro embarks on first UK podium exchange

27 Aug 08
Sleight of hand and sense of self

25 Aug 08
New light-sensitive pathway in the eye offers drug target to control sleep

17 Aug 08
Schoolteacher discovers ‘cosmic ghost’

06 Aug 08
Galaxy Zoo Voorwerp Images

03 Aug 08
Oxford’s Weidenfeld Scholarships support tomorrow’s leaders

22 Jul 08
Oxford University researchers tackle the end of the world

09 Jul 08
Voluntary sector agencies promote parents’ role in early learning for children

08 Jul 08
New Abrahamic Religions Chair at Oxford University

07 Jul 08
Researchers run rings round cell division

02 Jul 08
Volcano ‘pollution’ solves mercury mystery

25 Jun 08
Oxford University to launch UK’s first neuroethics centre

24 Jun 08
Power to the people: new online tool to help householders cut their energy bills

24 Jun 08
University of Oxford launches new centre for research in educational assessment

23 Jun 08
‘Ancestral anchovy fillet’ key to vertebrate evolution

18 Jun 08
Ultraviolet gives view inside real ‘death star’

11 Jun 08
Oxford University launches new linguistics faculty

09 Jun 08
‘Involved’ grandparents significantly associated with better-adjusted grandchildren

04 Jun 08
Living with epilepsy

04 Jun 08
Provost of Yale nominated as next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford

03 Jun 08
New centre launched to confront the challenge of technology for developing world

29 May 08
£1.25 billion Campaign for Oxford University launched with major donations

28 May 08
New DNA evidence overturns population migration theory in Island Southeast Asia

23 May 08
People in the UK no longer trust that the government will support them in old age

13 May 08
‘Early birds’ adapt to climate change

09 May 08
Report says give teachers more say in the development of the national curriculum

30 Apr 08
‘OCCAM’s razor’ to transform real-world mathematics

30 Apr 08
Early elephant ‘was amphibious’

14 Apr 08
Food bug evolution uncovered

11 Apr 08
International experts discuss food security in the face of climate change

02 Apr 08
Appalachian mountains to Oxford: creative writing is ‘passport to social mobility’

02 Apr 08
Oxford University hosts global moot to debate media law worldwide

31 Mar 08
Expert surveys are reliable way of measuring quality of political scientists’ work

27 Mar 08
Britain’s biggest meteorite impact found

26 Mar 08
International radiocarbon dating experts confirm the Turin Shroud is a medieval fake

25 Mar 08
Mars, Earth and Moon from ‘unique planetary nursery’

19 Mar 08
Salt-tolerant wheat targeted by Oxford scientists

17 Mar 08
Oxford Vice-Chancellor hosts India Oxford Business Forum

14 Mar 08
Oxford University launches research project for low carbon computing

14 Mar 08
£5m donation will open the Bodleian Library’s collections

07 Mar 08
Public asked for contributions to World War I archive

29 Feb 08
First joint teachers’ conference at Oxford and Oxford Brookes universities

26 Feb 08
Oxford economists show where the power lies in the British milk supply chain

25 Feb 08
Major new Oxford study of the nature and origins of religious belief

22 Feb 08
Forget the boat race – life-saving and ultimate frisbee will draw the crowds

15 Feb 08
Nuffield Review warns that 14-19 education and training is not a business

14 Feb 08
Arab street poets sing the praises of George Galloway

12 Feb 08
Winning smiles from sixth form biologists at Oxfordshire schools

11 Feb 08
Can apprenticeship schemes be successfully revived in today’s labour market?

23 Jan 08
New Head of Oxford University’s Social Sciences announced

21 Jan 08
Oxford plays host to Finance Minister Dr Sri Mulyani Indrawati

15 Jan 08
Policies promoting equality of opportunity would create as many losers as winners

14 Jan 08
Saturn’s ‘hot hexagon’ surprise

03 Jan 08
Altitude ‘worth half a goal a kilometre’

19 Dec 07
Next Head of Oxford University’s Medical Sciences Division announced

17 Dec 07
New Director for Continuing Education and President of Kellogg College

13 Dec 07
Low-cost population maps help poorer countries

12 Dec 07
Oxford announces David Walton Memorial Fund for doctoral students of economics

11 Dec 07
The University of Oxford and Sir David King create School of Enterprise and the Environment

11 Dec 07
The Oxford admissions interview blog is back

06 Dec 07
Oxford University announces winners of design-a-gargoyle competition

05 Dec 07
Proteins’ ‘breaking point’ found

04 Dec 07
Sir David King directs new Oxford School

29 Nov 07
Earth and Venus: Twins that grew apart

28 Nov 07
Santander Universities signs 3-year funding agreement with the University of Oxford

27 Nov 07
Warning signals for drivers who listen to music

27 Nov 07
International conference to examine new curriculum for children up to age of five

22 Nov 07
Should I eat the kids? When to care for, abandon, or eat your offspring

22 Nov 07
Michael Palin to officially open Pitt Rivers Museum's new extension

14 Nov 07
The Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship Programme

14 Nov 07
Nuffield Review says success of new Diplomas depends on what happens to A Levels

12 Nov 07
New target for MS treatment found using old drug

11 Nov 07
Oxfordshire schools mark National Chemistry Week

09 Nov 07
Oxford's Bodleian library holds a quarter of the world’s Magna Cartas

09 Nov 07
Violent galaxies ‘spew out’ energetic cosmic rays

07 Nov 07
Obesity gene acts on DNA

05 Nov 07
Age of earliest human burial in Britain pinpointed

30 Oct 07
Aso Group funds graduate scholarship at New College, University of Oxford

30 Oct 07
www.YouthHealthTalk.org launches ‘Living life with greater challenges.’

29 Oct 07
Caesarean births double the risk of death and illness for mother and baby

29 Oct 07
Half UK will be overweight by 2032

18 Oct 07
Hapmap phase II

18 Oct 07
International assistance needed to improve governance and security in Africa

15 Oct 07
Princess Royal opens unique centre for studying autism spectrum disorders and the brain

12 Oct 07
Bee buzz could scare away elephants

08 Oct 07
Tail cameras provide crow’s-eye view of clever tool use

04 Oct 07
Electrons’ ‘love-hate’ clue to superconductivity

03 Oct 07
Teaching condom use as a backup to abstinence helps prevent HIV

18 Sep 07
Oxford-Man Institute Opens

17 Sep 07
For earthquakes ‘speed kills’

17 Aug 07
Rubbish heaps ‘helped crops evolve’

15 Aug 07
No-sex programmes are not effective against HIV infection

03 Aug 07
Oxford Colleges release degree results for 2007 (‘Norrington table’)

03 Aug 07
University extends gargoyles’ competition to include schools and colleges

31 Jul 07
Oxford honours friends from across the world

30 Jul 07
Oxford Law appoints its first Dean

26 Jul 07
Famous Oxonians on broadcast, biography and ‘treading the boards’

16 Jul 07
Ordinary people’s experiences of bowel cancer screening available online

13 Jul 07
Everyone can visit the ‘Galaxy Zoo’

10 Jul 07
Ancient biomolecules from deep ice cores reveal a forested southern Greenland

05 Jul 07