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Behind the scenes: developing a new malaria vaccine

Nearly half of the world’s population lives in areas at risk of malaria transmission. A safe and effective vaccine…

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Life Without Music

Music is an integral part of life. Whether your foot taps on your commute to work, you play an…

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The Brains Behind Your Breakfast

Toast, anyone? Did you know that even seemingly trivial tasks – such as making breakfast – require complex brain…

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Code-Based Colleagues: The Future of Work and AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, such as the ‘chatbot’ ChatGPT, have blown us away recently – not only with their…

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How do we decide when to act?

What did you do in the few seconds before reading this? Sit down and take out your phone? Scroll…

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A Book at Bedtime

We all love a good story. But did you know, where children’s development is concerned, bedtime stories are more…

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How do you reintroduce lions?

Lions are iconic species, but they are threatened with extinction. In Zambia, researchers and conservationists are working together to…

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Does banning smoking work?

As the UK government proposes new plans to reduce the number of people who smoke, we talk to behaviour…

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Why are deep fakes happening?

Welcome to the new series of the Big Questions podcast, where we ask Oxford scientists to shed light on…

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What’s the cool stuff that we’ve learnt from the James Webb Space Telescope?

About a year ago, we asked astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst why the James Webb Space Telescope is such a big…

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Would you want to meet an alien?

What might an experimental petrologist (someone who makes rocks in the lab) and an immunologist (someone who studies the…

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Could ‘Jurassic Park’ actually happen?

“Life finds a way”…This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the release of Stephen Spielberg and Universal Studio’s dinosaur…

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Egil Dröge

I’ve been interested in all things living for as long as I can remember. Fascinated about how all species…

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Carolyn Nielsen

As an immunologist, I’m interested in understanding how people’s immune systems respond to vaccines and how we can use…

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Sarah Silk

Whilst living in Uganda, I saw the impact of malaria first hand and was able to take part in…

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Anne Ferrey

I’m Anne, a senior researcher and Course Director in the Department of Primary Care Health sciences at Oxford. I…

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Rhianna Watt

My mum is a librarian and so I’ve spent a great deal of my life buried between the pages…

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Sage Boettcher

“My work focuses on understanding how our past experiences and memories guide attention and behaviour. I am specifically interested…

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Oxford mourns the loss of Mrs Mica Ertegun, CBE

The Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor, the Ertegun Scholars and Alumni, and the entire University of Oxford community are deeply saddened…

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Expert Comment: Catchy headlines do not lead to action and change. It looks likely we will overshoot 1.5 C

As a veteran of COP conferences since Kyoto, which she attended as a student, Professor Rajamani explains, one of…

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Remote collaborations deliver fewer scientific breakthroughs, says Oxford co-led research

The researchers’ key finding was that, while remote collaboration has the potential to deliver new and creative scientific ideas…

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