Love child of slug and hedgehog: fossils may shed light on early mollusc ancestors
Rare specimens found in China from 514m years ago thought to be remains of proto-mollusc
July 2024
The Audio Long Read
From the archive: ‘Colonialism had never really ended’: my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes – podcast
Anglo-Saxons may have fought in northern Syrian wars, say experts
June 2024
Sir John Boardman obituary
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Anne Turvey obituary
Oxford University to return 500-year-old sculpture of Hindu saint to India
Groundbreaking AI heart attack scans could soon be rolled out across UK
May 2024
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Sylvia Gyde obituary
‘Loud-mouthed bully’: CS Lewis satirised Oxford peer in secret poems
Oxford student productions of Shakespeare have a very long history of engaging professionals
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Katherine Gieve obituary
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Chris Williams obituary
Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning ‘by more than seven years’
‘They’re teaching me’: Greg Doran on staging Shakespeare’s unloved Two Gents with students
Brief letters
Keep Oxford University alumni out of politics please
April 2024
‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute
Founded in 2005 and lauded by Silicon Valley, Nick Bostrom’s centre for studying existential risk warned about AI but also gave rise to cultish ideas such as effective altruism
Foreign states targeting sensitive research at UK universities, MI5 warns
Ministers considering more funding to protect important research sites, with China seen as a particular concern
Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher
