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Adoption is a lifelong connection, a new family, for a child

Abused children who were adopted did ‘significantly better’ than those brought up in care – research

Unhappy girl using a smart phone: data shows girls experience a negative link between social media use and life satisfaction when they are 11-13 years old and boys when they are 14-15 years old. Credit: Shutterstock.

Negative impact of social media affects girls and boys at different ages – study

Energy security: Building a zero-carbon energy system will take time, but it will reduce dependence on imported gas and oil, protect consumers from the volatility of international fossil fuel markets, and decrease costs for consumers. Credit: Shutterstock

Delaying clean energy transition would be ‘lose-lose’ for UK energy security, households and the climate

Windfarm with sunset in background

Oxford launches new multi-disciplinary ZERO Institute

Kitui view. Photo by Jeff Waweru

Water matters: for girls, for education, for future prosperity

By Professor Robert Hope, professor of water policy, director of the REACH programme.
Universal healthcare? Healthcare universalism has increased over time, with the world Healthcare Universalism Index (HUI) value increasing by nearly 20% from 0.395 to 0.472 between 1995 and 2017 – seemingly contradicting dominant narratives around the mar

Oxford researchers' index shows international healthcare systems becoming more universal

Russian protestor against the war in Ukraine. Credit: Shutterstock

Expert Comment: Economic sanctions are not likely immediately to shift Russian opinion against Putin

colleagues in various parts of the country therefore spend their entire days sheltered in basements and makeshift bomb shelters with hundreds of others. They can leave only for a few short minutes each day to get some fresh air and exercise – and, most im

Expert Comment: How ordinary Ukrainian families are suffering under Russian shells

in November 2013, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Kyiv, Ukraine’s thousand-year old capital city, to protest at the then President Viktor Yanukovych’s sudden decision to abandon plans to sign a free trade agreement with the European

Expert Comment: Putin’s war - How did we get here? ....Ukraine 2014

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