Monkeys’ grooming habits provide clues to how we socialise A study of female monkeys' grooming habits provides new clues about the way humans socialise. New research reveals a link between the size of the neocortex in the brain, responsible for higher-level thinking, and the size of grooming clusters that monkeys belong to.
Classicist honoured by British Academy Jim Adams, Senior Research Fellow in Classics at All Souls, has been awarded the British Academy’s Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies and Archaeology.
Oxford professor first non-American to win bone research award Professor Rajesh V Thakker has become the first non-American to receive the Founder’s Award from the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research.
Hydrogen-making algae’s ‘Achilles’ heel’ discovered Scientists have discovered how oxygen stops green algae from producing hydrogen. The findings could help those working towards ‘solar H2-farms’ in which microorganisms produce hydrogen fuel from sunlight and water.

Alumni Weekend 2009

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Alumni Weekend 2009 The 50th anniversary of Oxford’s former all-women’s colleges gaining full collegiate status was the theme of the third Alumni Weekend on 25-27 September.
What could 4 degree warming mean for the world? A leading climate scientist has presented new research findings on the increasing potential for a 4 degrees Celsius rise in global temperatures if the current high emissions of greenhouse gases continue.
Return Northern Rock to the mutual sector, says Oxford report The Rt Hon John McFall MP, Chair of the House of Commons Treasury Committee, will today back a report by Oxford professor Jonathan Michie, which urges the government to return the Northern Rock to the mutual sector.
Study of new swine flu vaccines for children University of Oxford paediatricians are looking for 250 children to take part in a study of the two swine flu vaccines due to be used in the UK this winter.

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