The oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford pairs collegiate tradition with one of the most productive research enterprises on the planet.
Oxford physicists have identified bismuth sulfide as a light-harvesting material that absorbs strongly yet holds on to its electrical charges, pointing to a new design principle for more efficient solar cells.
DNA methylation patterns in stored blood samples identified people at high risk of prostate cancer five to eight years before diagnosis, Oxford Population Health and University of Toronto researchers report.
Imaging of healthy volunteers shows ketamine damps activity in the habenula, the brain's processor of negative experience, offering a mechanism for its unusually rapid antidepressant effects.
An Oxford study of more than 70,000 matched US health records finds the recombinant shingles vaccine is associated with a 9 per cent lower cardiovascular disease burden than its predecessor.
The Articulate Pro study evaluated AI-assisted biopsy reporting across three NHS trusts in real time, finding it caught hard-to-spot cancers, sped up reporting and cut demand for extra staining.
The HOPP study has carried out the first successful transplantation of a human pancreas preserved by oxygenated machine perfusion, targeting one of the hardest organs to keep viable.
Oxford analysis of NASA InSight seismic data reveals a compositional boundary 24 kilometres beneath the Martian surface, evidence of vast, evolving magmatic systems on a planet without moving plates.
The Oxford-involved consortium has published X-ray structures of 699 compounds bound to a viral protein, with binding strengths for 601, laying open data foundations for AI in early-stage drug design.
A landslide of more than 60 million cubic metres sent a wave 481 metres up the wall of Tracy Arm fjord; Oxford analysis of seismic data revealed oscillations that persisted long after impact.
The first high-resolution survey of fungal diversity on Palmyra Atoll identified 147 mycorrhizal species and a strikingly specific partnership underpinning the native trees that seabirds depend on.
Whole genomes recovered from Ice Age sites in Türkiye and Britain confirm dogs were widespread across western Eurasia at least 14,300 years ago, long before agriculture emerged.
Oxford's Wellbeing Research Centre finds youth life evaluations in English-speaking countries have fallen by almost a point in a decade, with heavy social media use implicated but the full story more nuanced.
Oxford and Chinese researchers have identified the master regulator balancing root and shoot growth under nutrient stress; field trials of an improved natural variant lifted rice yields by up to 24 per cent.
Oxford modelling finds that if the UK food industry met the government's 2024 salt reduction targets, 103,000 cases of heart disease and 25,000 strokes could be avoided over 20 years, without consumers changing a thing.
Analysis of 27 million flights shows emissions per passenger-kilometre vary almost thirtyfold between routes, and that smarter use of existing aircraft could cut global aviation emissions by 50 to 75 per cent.
Oxford physicists leading work at the SNO+ detector, two kilometres underground in Canada, have recorded the first carbon-neutrino interactions, opening a new window on the Sun's nuclear furnace.
Oxford engineers have built modular soft robots driven entirely by air pressure whose limbs fall into rhythm through contact with the ground, no motors, sensors or computers required.
A new Oxford technique called MCC ultra reveals how DNA folds inside living cells in unprecedented detail, exposing the physical switchboard that decides which genes are turned on.