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WTO Director-General, Pascal Lamy, to give Distinguished Public Lecture at Oxford Martin School on 8 March 2012. As we face some of the b...

The American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) has been awarded to Professor Ian Goldin for his book Exceptiona...

Growing a new climate?
01 Feb 2012

Growing a new climate? New research reveals how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages. Le...

A game of ideas at Davos
31 Jan 2012

Creating a positive legacy from the 2012 Olympics and debating the pros and cons of complexity resulting from hyperconnectivity were two of the ...

A device that can boost brain function not only improves impaired cognition and motor skills, it can also enhance the abilities of the healthy, ...

Hyperconnectivity is the theme of Oxford’s contribution to the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos this week. Oxford University Vic...

Are you living in a computer simulation?, a paper written by Professor Nick Bostrom, Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of F...

A team of scientists led by Professor Gideon Henderson, Director of the Oxford Martin School’s 21st Century Ocean Institute, has set sail ...

The failure of global governance to manage and respond to the complexities of a hyperconnected world has emerged as the top theme in a recent gl...

The expertise of mathematician Alain Goriely from the Oxford Martin School has been called upon by film makers Warner Brothers in the production...

The first results from a new type of particle accelerator suggest how to build smaller, cheaper therapy machines, which could revolutionise canc...

A new vaccine, which could offer lasting protection against the chronic liver disease hepatitis C, has shown promising results in a first clinic...

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