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Professor Robert House (Department of Materials) and Professor Moritz Riede (Department of Physics) have both been awarded one of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s first ever Green Future Fellowships. The first cohort of 13 Fellows will each receive £3 million over 10 years to develop solutions that tackle multiple causes of the climate crisis, as well as mitigate and adapt to its impacts. UK Science Minister Lord Patrick Vallance said:…

The findings come as real-world data shows around half of people discontinue GLP-1 receptor agonist treatment within 12 months, and just months after NICE published quality standards recommending post-treatment support for at least one year.Across 37 studies including 9,341 adults, weight increased by an average of 0.4 kg (0.9 pounds) per month after weight management drugs were stopped. Researchers estimate that, at this rate, people would return to their starting…

Professor Janina Dill Four days after the United States bombed targets in Venezuela to capture President Nicolas Maduro, it is barely contested that the operation was a violation of international law.“Operation Absolute Resolve” – which by military standards was undoubtedly successful – violates one of the most fundamental rules of international law, the prohibition on the use of force in international relations, enshrined in Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter.US…

About the Oxford winners:Professor Suzanne Aigrain (Department of Physics) – Awarded the George Darwin LectureshipI am delighted and honoured to receive this award, which recognises both my research and my commitment to communicating it to a variety of audiences, something I very much enjoy. In the next decade, we hope to find habitable planets in the Solar neighbourhood, paving the way to searching for signs of life in their atmospheres,…

Following his admission as Chancellor of the University of Oxford in February 2025, Rt Hon The Lord Hague of Richmond, CVO, will confer honorary degrees on distinguished individuals at a Special Honorary Degree Ceremony on Tuesday 24 February 2026.The ceremony will take place at 11.30am in the Sheldonian Theatre, where honorary degrees will be awarded to Lady Elish Angiolini, John Kerry, Dinah Rose, Professor Irene Tracey, Professor Sir John Curtice, Christina…

Published today in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, the researchers analysed more than 27 million commercial flights in 2023, covering 26,000 city pairs and nearly 3.5 billion passengers. This revealed enormous variability in emissions efficiency, with some routes producing nearly 900 grams of CO₂ per kilometre for each paying passenger - almost 30 times higher than the most efficient, at around 30 grams of CO₂ per kilometre.Our results clearly show…

Over the weekend, the US carried out a surprise military operation in Venezuela that led to the capture of Nicolás Maduro, who is regarded as having ruled illegitimately after disputed elections.This came after months of a major US military build-up in the region, including ships such as USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest warship, numerous aircraft, and 15,000 troops.Maduro, whose illegitimacy was accompanied by years of repression and human rights…

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate far more energy than previously thought without breaking apart - a breakthrough with direct implications for planetary defence strategies. The findings have been published in Nature Communications. The Campo del Cielo iron meteorite used in the study. Credit: Eric Halwax. Recent missions such as NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART),…

Dr Carissa Véliz Everywhere I look there is talk about AI and digital technology. It’s not only that I work in this field. Chatter about AI follows me at dinner parties, the conversations of strangers in restaurants and public transport, it’s on the radio, podcasts of every kind, and on every morning show on TV.Tech enthusiasts talk about AI like nothing more important has ever happened in history, like it…