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Charlotte Collingwood sits against a tree. Featured image for the video 'When Stress Turns Bad'.

When Stress Turns Bad

Did you know that stress evolved as a key tool for our survival? I mean, you wouldn’t want to…

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Demography: Understanding Our World

What is demography, and how can it provide us with a better understanding of our world and the people…

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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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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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Can you make a dengue fever forecast?

More than half the world’s population is at risk from dengue fever, a viral infection that is spread via…

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Can my gut health improve my mental health?

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Why do research on research?

We’ve talked about a lot of different types of research on this podcast…from investigations into drought, to space exploration,…

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How could spider sex unlock secrets to engineering?

Not everyone is the biggest fan of spiders…we know that. They might not be the first thing that springs…

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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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Sarah Sparrow

From a young age I was interested in weather and climate, studying clouds and recording weather data with homemade…

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Philip Burnet

My passion for neuroscience started when I was studying biochemistry at the University of Hull. By the time I…

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Patricia Logullo

How can we understand the way scientists discover new treatments and disease prevention? Could people take better care of…

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Sushma Shankar

Hi guys, I’m Sushma! I work as both a Transplant Surgeon and Scientist in Oxford. Read on to find…

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Zhiyao Luo

I am Zhiyao Luo, a DPhil student at Reuben College and the Department of Engineering Science at the University…

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Misha Patel

Hello, I’m Misha. I am a PhD student at the University of Oxford, working in the Engineering Science Department…

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COVID-19 vaccine compensation schemes increased during pandemic

Over three years and three phases, the team from the Faculty of Law will create an online database that…

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School closures may reduce COVID-19 transmission, but may also harm children's education and wellbeing

Findings showed that while school closures may reduce COVID-19 transmission, they were also associated with negative impacts on children’s…

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World Rugby Hall of Fame inducts Varsity Match

The Varsity Match – the annual rugby union match between Oxford and Cambridge universities and one of sport’s longest-running…

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