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'Dory' from Disney Pixar's 'Finding Dory' and a real-life blue tang fish. Featured image for video 'Movies and the Wildlife Trade'.

Movies and the Wildlife Trade

Movies have a great deal of influence in our lives. Whether you like to follow the works of a…

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The feet of two ballroom dancers, merged with vials of antibiotics.

Antimicrobial Resistance: A Dance with Nature

“The process of creating new antibiotics and understanding bacteria with particular mechanisms of resistance is like a dance…” Antibiotics…

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Feeding the Future Study (FEED)

The British diet has undergone a substantial transformation over the last few decades, with the traditional ‘meat and two…

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The Symphony of the Brain

“We can think of singers in a choir as neurons in the brain. Like these singers, neurons have to…

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Parasites: From Foe to Friend

By definition, parasites are bad news. The word ‘parasite’ is used to describe any organism that lives on –…

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Can e-cigarettes help you stop smoking?

Can e-cigarettes help you stop smoking? Keeping on top of the evidence. The messages surrounding e-cigarettes, or vapes, are…

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A cartoon woman wearing a stylised VR headset is surrounded by projections of a big city. Featured image for the podcast 'Is the metaverse doomed?'

Is the metaverse doomed?

Ask an internet aficionado what the ‘next big thing’ is, and they might respond with ‘the metaverse’. This is…

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Can you cure jet lag?

If our internal body clock is telling us it’s 3am, but the external environment is telling us it’s 12…

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Should I feel guilty eating turkey at my Christmas dinner?

While the tradition of eating turkey at Christmas can be traced back to Henry VIII, it’s really only been…

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How can a simulation help treat kidney stones?

Around 10% of us will experience kidney stones at some point in our life. They occur when waste products…

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How were new craters on Mars discovered?

When a space rock smashes into the surface of a planet, a hole – or crater – is formed.…

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What makes the human brain so special?

We often hear that we’re remarkably similar to our primate relatives, both in terms of our genetics and our…

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Bernie Hogan

Bernie Hogan’s first computer was a Commodore 64 back in 1989. Since then, he’s done university degrees specialising in…

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Chioma Achi

I am interested in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of infectious and zoonotic pathogens because of the direct impact of AMR…

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Matt Beech

I am a researcher with a keen interest in combatting the growing Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) crisis – a global…

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Kirsty Sands

I always liked microbiology during my university course in Biomedical Sciences – it was always the most “hands on”…

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Yuqing Zhou

I am a DPhil (PhD) student in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford. I am part of the…

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Alistair Farley

From a young age, I have been curious about the physical and natural world that surrounds us. This broad…

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Oxford spinout trials revolutionary bioelectronic implant to treat incontinence

Amber Therapeutics, a company spun out from the University of Oxford in 2021, applies a research system which uses…

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New blood test could save lives of heart attack victims

Researchers from the Herring group in Oxford’s Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics have developed a blood test that measures…

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Expert Comment: Let's bring the city centres back to the people

If authorities succumb to the pressure of the demands for data, clean air/low/zero emissions zones could be at risk…

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