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Iris Murdoch artworks from secret room go on display – including self-portrait

Second world war paintings and sketches show novelist ‘engaging with her world in a new light’

The Guardian - UK

Airless Graves Can Preserve Human Brains for Thousands of Years, and Scientists Finally Know Why

Oxford researchers found oxygen-starved graves flip decay into preservation, welding brain proteins together. The chemistry echoes neurodegeneration.

Medical Daily

Eight Weeks of Salsa Classes Cut Depression Scores at Oxford, But Not the Thing the Trial Was Built Around

Oxford put 121 young adults with depressive symptoms into salsa classes. Depression and social anxiety fell. Loneliness did not separate the groups.

Medical Daily

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The First Vaccine Built for This Ebola Strain Has Entered Human Testing as the DRC Outbreak Becomes the Country's Largest

Oxford launched the first Phase 1 trial of a Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine. Licensed Ebola vaccines target a different species and do not cover this strain.

Medical Daily

You can declutter the hell out of your car with these genius things

A handful of smart, budget-friendly finds can turn your car from chaotic and cramped to clean and comfortable.

Mic

First human volunteer vaccinated against Bundibugyo strain of Ebola

The University of Oxford 's Oxford Vaccine Group has vaccinated the first volunteer in the world's inaugural clinical trial for a vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola . This marks the first human administration of the ChAdOx1 BDBV vaccine, which was developed by Oxford scientists using the same technology…

The Independent UK

Britain should turn Ukrainian wartime innovation into shared leadership

Britain has turned wartime invention into global progress before. With Ukraine tech, it can do it again.

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Voices: ‘University is not for everyone’: Readers welcome Andy Burnham’s education shake-up – with one big caveat

YOUR VIEWS: Our community share their views on the new prime minister’s plan to put technical education on equal footing with university – from readers who say the change is decades overdue, to those who fear a return to the old grammar school divide

The Independent UK

‘Exemplary’ students saw university hopes dashed by Home Office visa ban, court hears

Female students from Sudan, Afghanistan and Cameroon denied chance to learn in the UK after home secretary imposes visa ban

The Independent UK

Ebola surges past 3,200 cases in DRC as Oxford begins first vaccine trial

The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has climbed to 1,405, with confirmed cases now at 3,200, government data showed Sunday, as researchers race to develop a vaccine.

Radio France Internationale

Lane Kiffin Can Quit Social Media, But He Can’t Escape Himself

The LSU coach’s latest self-improvement project won’t erase a career built on polarizing decisions and self-inflicted controversy.

Sports Illustrated

How Crows Make Multi-Step Tools in the Wild: What Their Behavior Reveals About Bird Intelligence

What Researchers Actually FilmedIn 2016, researchers from the University of Oxford published footage of New Caledonian crows in the wild doing something that had never been documented outside a laboratory: combining two separate materials to create a single functional tool. One crow picked up a short stick, found it too…

Times Life

Resilience is real: Anoushka Lucas on her defiant rise

Anoushka Lucas spent years chasing her music dream — rejected and pigeonholed by labels, she instead found success in theatre. Now she’s back with a new album... on her own terms

Evening Standard

17 fashion deals in Nordstrom’s anniversary sale that are actually quite good (according to stylists)

Nordstrom’s sale runs until 9 August and we fished out the best deals on jeans, tops, office wear, shoes, sunglasses and more for you

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The Hunt for Gollum is being criticised for its all-white cast. Blaming Tolkien is the wrong answer

The Lord of the Rings author’s debt to Norse mythology is simply irrelevant when it comes to the appearance of hobbits and elves on screen today

Medical Daily

Stopping Ozempic or Wegovy Leads to Nearly 2 Pounds of Weight Regain Per Month, Largest Review Finds

Oxford study of 9,341 adults finds stopping Ozempic or Wegovy causes ~1.8 lbs of weight regain per month. What patients need to know about GLP-1 discontinuation.

The Guardian - UK

Taking salsa classes can improve mental health, Oxford study suggests

Researchers find dance reduced depressive symptoms and social anxiety in young people in eight-week trial

International Business Times UK

UK Begins Human Trials of New Ebola Vaccine in Just 57 Days as Scientists Race to Stop Deadly Virus

Oxford University has initiated human trials for a new Ebola vaccine just 57 days after development, targeting the Bundibugyo strain amid an outbreak in the Congo and Uganda.

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The Independent UK

First human trials of new Ebola vaccine begin at Oxford University

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Oxford University begins human trials of new Ebola vaccine to combat fast-spreading Bundibugyo strain

The jab could be ready to send to the Democratic Republic of Congo within weeks

The Guardian - UK

Ann Widdecombe obituary

Former Conservative minister who played up to the role of British eccentric in a post-parliamentary TV career

The Guardian - UK

Adrian Lyttelton obituary

Other lives: A leading historian of Italian fascism

Evening Standard

Three Tottenham players who must convince Roberto De Zerbi during pre-season

Competition will be fierce for minutes next season, so impacting the right impression is key

The Economic Times

3I/ATLAS mystery deepens: Discovered on July 1 last year, study suggest the cosmic visitor may be older than the Sun, Earth or any other object in our solar system

An Oxford PhD student, Matthew Hopkins, analyzed 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object possibly older than our Sun. This visitor, the third confirmed, may originate from a star system formed around 7 billion years ago, originating from the galaxy's thick disc. Its chemical composition offers a unique glimpse into the early universe,…

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Mars may have once been filled with seas of magma that made the Red Planet habitable

Deep oceans of magma once sloshed about inside the crust of Mars, seismic measurements taken by NASA's InSight mission suggest.

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