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Learning online: 'We find a substantial overall learning deficit…which arose early in the pandemic and persists over time… The pooled effect…implies that students lost out on about 35% of what they would have learned in a normal school year…This confirms

More than one third of year's learning lost in pandemic - study

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Mala Tribich MBE, centre, flanked by Lord [Eric] Pickles, to the left; Dinah Rose KC, to the right. Barnabas Balint, on the right.

Holocaust remembered in Oxford: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories

An image of a DNA double helix. Image credit: Shutterstock.

COVID-19 increased public trust in science, new survey shows

Genetics
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Science
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An image of a Click Beetle. Image credit: Shutterstock.

Leaping beetles inspire new, miniature jumping robots

Innovation
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Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science
Major funding for Oxford will help find new cancer treatments

Major funding for Oxford will help find new cancer treatments

Cancer
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Gero Miesenböck awarded 2023 Japan Prize

Gero Miesenböck awarded 2023 Japan Prize

Awards
Genetics
Medical Sciences
Neuroscience
Role of lymphatic system in bone healing revealed

Role of lymphatic system in bone healing revealed

Biology
Health
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Research
Debris accumulating on Aldabra Atoll, a remote coral island and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the southwestern Seychelles. This photograph was taken as part of the Aldabra Clean-Up Project. Image credit: Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF).

New study shows that most plastic debris on Seychelles beaches comes from far-off sources

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Many new methods are emerging with potential. Rather than focusing on one or two options we should encourage a portfolio, so that we get to net zero quickly without over-relying on any one method - Dr Steve Smith Credit: Shutterstock

CO2 removal is essential, along with emissions cuts, to limit global warming - report

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Professor Susan Perkin. Image credit: Trinity College, University of Oxford.

University of Oxford Chemist honoured in annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

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