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A radio telescope pointing upwards is silhouetted against the Milky Way, seen as a vast array of stars in a twilight sky.

University of Oxford partners with Breakthrough Prize Foundation in search for life beyond Earth

Astrophysics
Funding
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science
A sunrise as seen from Mars. The red surface of the planet is illuminated by the disc of the sun appearing on the horizon. The background is black outer space with stars.

New study reveals source of largest ever Mars quake

Astrophysics
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science
Mother and baby

Tackling persistent inequities underlying maternal mortality

Health
Medical Sciences
Policy
Research
A farmer's hand holds a bunch of harvested grapes. In the other hand, a pair of secateurs snips the stem off the bunch. In the background, out of focus rows of grape vines are illuminated by sunlight.

New research finds that warm summers and wet winters yield better wine vintages

Climate change
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Science
Scholarship programme for the innovators of the future launched

Scholarship programme for the innovators of the future launched

Education
Innovation
Students
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Wearable sensors provide early detection of progression in Parkinson’s Disease

Health
Innovation
Medical Sciences
Neuroscience
Research
One said the device was like having a salesman in the room and disposed of it.

Expert Comment: How consumers are navigating the Amazon/Alexa data dilemma

Artificial Intelligence
Expert opinion
Research
Social Sciences
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Professor Alan Bernstein appointed as new University of Oxford Director of Global Health

Global health
Health
Medical Sciences
Society
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