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Science 12 Oct 10 The public are being asked to revisit the voyages of World War One Royal Navy warships to help scientists understand the climate of the past and unearth new historical information.

Health | Science Ed Sykes | 08 Oct 10 Tumours seem to pacify our immune system by tapping into our bodies' codes, but we may be able to use this trick against them in our bid to hunt them down.

Science Pete Wilton | 01 Oct 10 An experiment to test if slime moulds can design efficient railway networks has won a team, including Oxford University researchers, an Ig Nobel Prize .

Technology | Business 30 Sep 10 A new Oxford University laboratory will help to develop the greener, more efficient jet engines of the future.

Health 29 Sep 10 Testosterone deficiency can cause sexual disorders in women as well as men, researchers from Oxford University and elsewhere have shown.

Science Pete Wilton | 27 Sep 10 How do you accurately simulate the Universe on a computer? A new programme at the Oxford Martin School , led by Pedro Ferreira of Oxford University's Department of

Policy 24 Sep 10 One of the most significant manifestations of increased globalisation in the 21st century has been an increase in international migration.

Science | Health 24 Sep 10 Successful surgery for narrowed arteries in the neck halves the risk of having a stroke over the next 5 years, and benefit persists for at least 10 years, an Oxford-led study has shown.

Science Jonathan Wood | 23 Sep 10 Scientists are expecting grim news in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, where funding for science and research is expected to be cut significantly.

Arts 23 Sep 10 The world's largest collection of miscellanies is being collected and put online by researchers from the Faculty of English Language and Literature with the support of the Bodleian Libraries curators.

Business Pete Wilton | 22 Sep 10 How can you measure the economic benefits of university research? One way is to look at the number of spin-out firms universities create in order to exploit new scientific ideas and techniques.

Science Pete Wilton | 10 Sep 10 If particles of dark matter are accumulating inside the Sun then we could use neutrinos to detect them. A short article in this week's Science , by Joseph Silk from Oxford University's Department of Physics and Ilidio Lopes of the Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal, suggests how this might be done.

Society 25 Aug 10 A major international study is to examine whether shame is a key part of the experience of being poor.

Arts 20 Aug 10 The Bodleian Libraries usually asks readers not to write in library books, but this week visitors are being encouraged to grab a pen and write inside a large wooden book.

Science 19 Aug 10 Females with fewer sexual partners can explain where bird species have evolved to cooperate in the rearing of their young, according to Oxford University research. In a study of 267 bird species, the researchers found that promiscuity rates overall were three times higher among species that show no social cooperation than in species where adult birds other than the parents help in raising chicks, for example by assisting in providing food, incubation or defence.

Science 06 Aug 10 A new £15 million research centre is to be established at Oxford University to investigate how intelligence arises in our brains from the way nerve cells, with no intelligence of their own, are wired into circuits.

Business | Environment Pete Wilton | 04 Aug 10 Last month young scientists and engineers from Oxford and Cambridge joined together in teams to learn how to pitch business ideas to a Dragon's Den-style panel of judges.

Science | Environment Guest: Penny Sarchet | 02 Aug 10 At 389 years old, the Curator of the Oxford University Herbaria is one of the oldest positions in Oxford. Its current holder, Dr Stephen Harris, curates a vast collection of plant specimens, archived and housed in the Department of Plant Sciences.

Arts 02 Aug 10 Oxford University's Voltaire Foundation has become one of a select group of institutions outside France to receive an award from the Académie Française, in recognition of a 50-year project which is changing the existing image of Voltaire.

Health Jonathan Wood | 29 Jul 10 An astonishing and shocking story from the time of the Japanese occupation of Indonesia has been unearthed, thanks to the efforts of J Kevin Baird, who directs the Ox

Science Pete Wilton | 28 Jul 10 In mammals, many birds, and some invertebrates young offspring are totally dependent on their parents for food and protection.

Arts 20 Jul 10 Ten endangered species have been given common English names, after the results of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History's 'Name a Species' competition results were announced on Saturday (17 July).