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Award-winning HydRegen technology offers path to 'clean, safe' chemical production
Oxford Science Blog
From fragrances and food flavourings to the building blocks of pharmaceutical drugs, fine chemicals – complex chemicals produced in small quantities to a high degree of purity – play a major role in our daily lives.
Genes that increase children's risk of blood infection identified
News
Scientists discover how supermassive black holes keep galaxies turned off
News
Oxford study aims to find anti-depressants that work faster for patients
News
Oxford key to network of ultra-powerful MRI scanners
News
Helping to bring energy prices down and keep the lights on
News
Peak demand is posing an increasing challenge to the UK’s electricity system.
Can psychological therapies help people who self-harm?
News
Record £16.9m for Oxford spinout designing stem cell drugs to treat age-related disease
News
Universal flu vaccine under development by Oxford spinout Vaccitech
News
Oxford spinout raises £10m for precision system to treat disease
News
Human factors: Designing health services for people
Oxford Science Blog
Let me start with a statement of the blindingly obvious: People are fundamental to health services. Design whatever health system you like but you'll still need people to deliver healthcare to those other people - patients.
Oxford Nanoimaging to provide desktop super-resolution microscopes
News
Report reveals journalists' views on ethics, pay and the pressures they feel
News
A new report called 'Journalists in the UK', launched today by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, examines their views on the ethics and practices of journalism, how they regard their role, pay and diversity within the profession, who they trust, and the c
A female perspective from generations of immigrant workers in Britain
News
Their accounts document their struggles to overcome discrimination and disadvantage to rebuild their lives in the book, Migrant Women's Voices: talking about life and work in the UK since 1945.
New research networks to explore social media's impact, gender in literature and more
Oxford Arts Blog
How is social media affecting our behaviour?
Has the gender of an author influenced whether their work is accepted into the literary ‘canon’?
These are among the questions being explored by four new research networks at Oxford University.
Oxfordshire Green Paper outlines vision for region as 'innovation engine'
News
Oxford study finds virtual reality can help treat severe paranoia
News
Statin treatment before heart surgery does not prevent heart damage or atrial fibrillation
News
Could teachers do less marking for better results?
News
The report, A Marked Improvement?, by the University of Oxford and the charity, Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), says there needs to be more research into which marking strategies really work, but it also identifies some approaches that do make a difference.
Teenage boys in India given better food than girls
News
The gender gap in diet appears to be particularly marked in families that have high aspirations for their children's education.
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