Oxford University scientists hope to uncover the secret life of an important British seabird using technology developed with Microsoft Research Cambridge.

A model of the British milk supply chain, produced by Oxford University economists, confirms the common belief that supermarkets currently hold the bargaining power.

The 2008 Oxford and Cambridge Student Conferences are filling up fast as schools and colleges around the country book places for their most able pupils.

Oxford University has launched a new masters degree specifically devoted to the study of modern China. The MSc in Modern Chinese Studies will be part of the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies within the Division of Social Sciences.

Oxford researchers have received a £1.9 million grant for the development of the study of the cognitive science of religion – a scientific approach to why humans believe in God and other issues around the nature and origin of religious belief.

The Voltaire Foundation at Oxford University has been awarded a substantial grant to produce the first scholarly edition of one of the first complete histories of the world.

Everybody knows about the boat race but few know about the fierce competition between Oxford and Cambridge universities when it comes to Ultimate Frisbee and Life-saving.

Scientists from Oxford University have helped to close down a major counterfeit drugs operation. Evidence provided by the scientists and INTERPOL led to the arrest of a man accused of dealing fake anti-malaria pills.

The government’s emphasis on making Britain economically competitive is overshadowing broader educational aims, according to latest research by the Oxford-led Nuffield Review.

Mistakes that were made in Iraq and Afghanistan should not ‘obscure our national interest … in supporting movements for democracy’ pleaded the Foreign Secretary, the Rt Hon David Miliband MP on Tuesday 12 February 2008, when he delivered the Aung San Suu Kyi lecture at St Hugh’s College, on ‘The democratic imperative’.

Two major paintings by the artists Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti have been saved for the nation through the Government’s Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme and will be permanently allocated to the Ashmolean Museum.

Twenty-six winners from schools throughout Oxfordshire received prizes at the Sixth Form Biologist of 2007-08 ceremony held at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on 7 February.