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A woman opens a fridge. Featured image for the video "The Brains Behind Your Breakfast".

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?

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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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What do we tell the children?

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The Future of Automation in the Home

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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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How can we use sound waves to eliminate infections?

Many of us will have had to deal with a bacterial infection at some point or another. The solution?…

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How do you convert CO2 into jet fuel?

Increasing levels of CO2 in our atmosphere are a big cause for concern. So what if we could find…

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How do you use social media to deliver humanitarian aid?

Forced displacement of human populations owing to conflict or natural disasters is very difficult to measure. During these crises,…

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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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Dejan Draschkow

During my first undergraduate year in Munich, I was completely baffled by the realisation that what we perceive is…

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Johann Laux

I am fascinated by how new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital platforms, and Big Data affect us…

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Eugenia Gonzalez Ehlinger

I’ve always been passionate about education and skills, but things got interesting when I started working with the OECD.…

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Fabian Stephany

Fabian is an economist studying how Artificial Intelligence and other digital technologies shape the future of work. Currently he…

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Giamp Valenzano

Hi! My name is Giamp. I am a medic by training and have graduated from the International Medical School…

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The quality of Oxford’s world-leading teaching has been recognised by the Office for Students’ scheme, which awarded the University…

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