Expert Comment: Should the UK relax clean energy targets?

Published on February 19, 2026

Dr Stuart Jenkins, Oxford Net Zero Research Fellow on Net Zero for the Fossil Fuel Sector, assesses whether new North Sea oil and gas strengthens the UK’s energy security and economy.
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Study shows that digital treatment with Tetris gameplay can dramatically reduce trauma memories

February 19, 2026
New research involving Oxford researchers has shown that a simple digital intervention that includes gameplay can dramatically reduce intrusive memories of trauma in a month, even to the point of being symptom-free after six months. This treatment was also very effective at reducing the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) more generally. The findings have been published this week in

What does ‘flexibility’ actually look like?

February 19, 2026
Researchers led by the University of Cambridge say they have taken a first step towards answering this question. Using ultra-sensitive atomic force microscopy – which analyses materials by ‘feeling’ them – the researchers were able to measure how stiff flexible semiconductor molecules are when packed together, down to the scale of just a few molecules.Their findings, reported in the journal Nature