By Jonathan O’Callaghan Illustration of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which spotted the star systemNASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers ha...

The curatorship has been safeguarded by a joint endowment from Sir Victor Blank the former chairman of Lloyds bank, and the educational and academic charity, the Rothschi...

People who test negative for Covid-19 seven days after coming into contact with a confirmed case are unlikely to be infectious, a new modelling study suggests. The resear...

Adult hospital admissions for dog bites tripled in England in the last 20 years, according to experts who are warning of a “growing public health problem”. A study by sci...

Analysing sewage can help detect and track the spread of new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes Covid-19, a study has shown. The technique could be a more rapi...

Participating parents and carers recently reported an increase in symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression, especially during the period from November to December. Thi...

The RECOVERY trial was established as a randomised clinical trial to test a range of potential treatments for COVID-19.  Since May 2020, the RECOVERY trial has included a...

Oxford Professor David Vines says, ‘The old model of ‘macroeconomics’ was built for a stable world free from large economic shocks. If we ever lived in such a world, we n...

A new and gigantic dinosaur which could rival the largest known species is being unearthed in Argentina. A collection of bones found in Neuquén Province in northwest Pata...

Ineos, one of the world’s largest manufacturing companies, and the University of Oxford are launching a new world-leading institute to combat the growing global issue of...