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New Oxford mathematics scholarship enabled by founding and principal donor XTX Markets

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Expert Comment: Unemployment could undermine social trust in Europe

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Smoking increases the risks of 56 diseases in Chinese adults

Smoking increases the risks of 56 diseases in Chinese adults

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An illustration that depicts scientists strategising around a drawing of an HIV virus - artwork by Marzia Munafo

EAVI2020: The Quest for an HIV Vaccine

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Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea, seen from The SA Agulhas II research vessel during the field research. Image credit: Nekton 2022.

Synthetic fibres discovered in Antarctic samples show the ‘pristine’ continent is now a sink for plastic pollution

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The new National Thin-Film Cluster Facility for Advanced Functional Materials, part of the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics. The image shows the main cluster glovebox where all substrates and masks are loaded, filled with high purity nitrogen

New research facility launches to develop the next generation of advanced functional materials

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An image of Oxford in the Summer, across the rooftops, August 2020

Scholarship scheme for graduates displaced by the war in Ukraine receives funding to continue

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Four Oxford academics have been awarded competitive starting grants from the European Research Council. Image credit: University of Oxford Images / John Cairns Photography

Four Oxford academics ‘showing great promise’ awarded European Research Council Starting Grants

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Artistic impression of the exoplanet WASP-39b. Image credit: Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

New data from James Webb Space Telescope reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before

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