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Around 4600 years ago, the Shijiahe developed an advanced, complex culture in China’s Middle Yangtze River region – complete with palaces, city walls, sophisticated water management, and jade and pottery industries. But within a thousand years, this culture had collapsed and migrated out of the region. Until now, the reason behind this was unclear – could this civilization have been driven out by raiders from the Central Plains? Or were…

'The Power of Activism' delivered a stimulating evening of discussion as the theme for this term's Sheldonian Series event on Wednesday 4 February 2026.It was a brilliant evening of discussion and a lively crowdDominique PalmerThe event, which is open to all and aims to promote freedom of speech and inclusive inquiry, saw a robust exchange of views on themes including the relationship between democracy and activism, the ethical and legal limits…

An adult puma with a blood stain on the paw. © Joel Reyero 2024 Should we protect an emblematic species if it may come at the cost of another one – particularly in ecosystems that are still recovering from human impacts? This is the conservation dilemma facing Monte Leon National Park, on the Patagonian coast in Argentina.Since cattle ranching was abandoned in southern Argentina in 1990, pumas (Puma concolor) have…

The UK Pharmaceutical Sector lies at the heart of the life sciences ecosystem, providing one of the key growth engines in the UK economy. In 2022, the £9 billion of pharmaceutical R&D accounted for 18% of all R&D performed by all UK businesses - the highest of any product area (UK Government). GSK has invested heavily in data-driven approaches to pharmaceutical R&D that are both informed by and provide new insight…

Our study demonstrates how geography, social organisation, and historical circumstances can preserve ancient genetic patterns in certain regions long after they have become altered elsewhere.Lead author, Associate Researcher Dr Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou (Oxford University Museum of Natural History)Set among rugged mountains, dramatic coastlines, and distinct stone tower houses, the Mani Peninsula of the Peloponnese, Greece, has long captivated travellers, historians, and writers, most famously, Jules Verne and Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor.…

By fostering deep integration between leading UK and Japanese teams and their respective programmes, we aim to create a coherent, full-stack architecture and deliver concrete integration outcomes that amplify the value of current national efforts, rather than duplicating foundational developments.Professor David Lucas, Department of Physics, University of OxfordInstead of working through problems step by step, quantum methods can explore many possibilities at the same time, making them much faster at certain…

Cardiovascular disease results in around 20 million deaths worldwide and causes around a quarter of all deaths in the UK. Statins are highly effective drugs that lower LDL ('bad') cholesterol levels and have been repeatedly proven to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. However, there have been concerns about possible side effects.The researchers gathered data from 23 large-scale randomised studies from the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists’ Collaboration: 123,940 participants in 19…

Dr Héloïse Stevance. Credit: Elise Manahan. Recently one of the most prestigious artificial intelligence (AI) conferences (NeurIPS) was caught accepting submissions with hallucinated citations. Not a handful either - over 100 instances. The response form the NeurIPS board is pretty telling of the times we live in: ‘Even if 1.1% of the papers have one or more incorrect references due to the use of LLMs, the content of the papers themselves are…