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New breakthrough enables perfectly secure digital communications

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Oxford awarded £1.25 million official funding to accelerate vital research, and go from local to global

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Innovation
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Social Sciences
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New study could help pinpoint hidden helium gas fields – and avert a global supply crisis

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The analysis also suggested a novel role for the red hair colour gene, melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) in reproductive biology

Genetic variants influencing human fertility identified - new research

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An artist’s impression of an X-ray binary star system. This shows the normal star in yellow/red, the disc of rotating matter, the neutron star sitting in its centre, and the ‘radio jet’ shooting out. Credit: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

Major collaboration reveals new insights on binary star systems

Astrophysics
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Kenya river in the sky

‘Rivers in the sky’ shape African climate - research

Climate
Environment
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New hub receives £2 million to develop the communications technologies of tomorrow

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A woman scientist: Scientists tend to move from one country to another to advance their careers. But researchers from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science have found female researchers continue to be under-represented among internationally m

International recognition is important but female scientific researchers are less internationally-mobile

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From left to right: William Whyte (Professor of Architectural History and senior responsible owner for the University), VC, Mr Schwarzman, and Madeleina Loughrey-Grant from Laing O'Rourke.

Construction of the Schwarzman Centre gets underway

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Humanities
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University
Somali families: Our research found a 1 °C warming is estimated to lead to a ten-fold increase in expected displacement. It is alarming that, even this marginal change in temperature, has such a huge impact. It highlights the likely effect climate change

Small temperature rise can cause large scale forced migration - study

Climate change
Environment
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