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Poor parenting is not the reason for an increase in problem behaviour amongst teenagers, according to research led by Oxford University.
Jul
31
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Malaria parasites in western Cambodia have become resistant to artemisinin-based therapies, the first-line treatment for malaria, according to a study by Oxford University researchers based in Thailand.
Jul
30
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A new way of detecting how fast large gaseous planets are rotating suggests Saturn’s day is over five minutes shorter than previous estimates.
Jul
30
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A scholar of international standing has been appointed to a new Islamic Studies Chair at Oxford, enabling more research and teaching on core Middle East issues as well as improved links between the University and the Middle East.
Jul
29
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Oxford University’s Russian sub-faculty is celebrating its first ever student to graduate with a first class honours degree in beginners’ Russian since the course was launched in 2003.
Jul
27
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The Cheddar Gorge in Somerset was one of the first sites to be inhabited by humans when they returned to Britain near the end of the last Ice Age. According to new radio carbon dating by Oxford University researchers, humans were living in Gough's Cave 14,700 years ago.
Jul
27
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Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium, an exotic new state of matter that previously only existed in science fiction, by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser.
Jul
27
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A short piece of writing by C S Lewis, which is housed in the Bodleian Library, has become the focus of scholarly attention after an academic claimed it to be the opening pages of a proposed book by Lewis and J R R Tolkein.
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