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The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Teaching has taken place at Oxford since 1096. Oxford has the largest volume of world-leading research in the country, rating top in the REF power rankings published by Research Fortnight. Oxford’s research involves more than 70 departments, almost 1,800 academic staff, more than 5,000 research and research support staff, and more than 5,600 graduate research students. The University has 38 independent colleges to which undergraduate and graduate students belong. Oxford has the highest research income from external sponsors of any UK university: £478.3m in 2013/14. The University has pioneered the successful commercial exploitation of academic research and invention, creating more than 100 companies, and files more patents each year than any other UK university.

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By the 17th century, wealthy Britons were already experiencing the delights of expensive sugar confections. Wikimedia Commons

How England became the ‘sweetshop of Europe’

The story of the growth of Britain’s sugar trade can tell us a lot about the development of capitalism and the slave trade.
Aparat pemerintah memperingatkan penduduk yang mengabaikan perintah jaga jarak skala besar, mereka masih berkumpul di area pasar di Jakarta, pada masa wabah virus corona. Edwin Dala/INA Photo Agency/Sipa USA/AAP

Indonesia belum punya kurva epidemi COVID-19: kita harus hati-hati membaca klaim pemerintah kasus baru melambat

Pemerintah perlu secara terbuka dan transparan menyampaikan data jumlah pemeriksaan PCR dan lamanya waktu pemeriksaan untuk setiap provinsi dan kabupaten/kota untuk membuat kurva epidemi.
Mungkinkah dunia alien terlihat seperti ini? Shutterstock

Curious Kids: seperti apa bentuk alien?

Di luar sana mungkin saja terdapat alien - mungkin yang lebih aneh dari bayangan kita - sedang merenungkan pertanyaan serupa.
People dance on their balcony in Barcelona, Spain, on April 25, 2020, as the lockdown to combat the spread of coronavirus continues. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Music-making brings us together during the coronavirus pandemic

From balcony concerts to Zoom choirs, neuroscience shows why people are compelled to connect through music while the pandemic keeps them under stay-at-home orders.

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