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As calls for greater freedom grow, the author examines how secularism might work in Iran.
Sebuah studi tentang tweet yang diposting pada tahun 2019 menemukan bahwa cuitan tentang konservasi gajah tidak selaras dengan ancaman terbesar yang sebenarnya terhadap satwa ini.
Russians find it hard to envisage a Russia after Putin.
Official estimates indicate that meat consumption is falling in the UK – but not all of the data agrees.
How long does the licence fee have left?
Partout sur la planète, la mortalité a augmenté du fait du Covid en 2020… Mais 2021, la situation a évolué de façon très différente selon les pays. Pourquoi certains s’en tirent-ils mieux ? Réponses.
Would an advanced AI try to take over the world? If it uses a common approach called ‘reinforcement learning’, the answer is almost certainly yes.
From more accurate climate modelling to the prospect of truly creative computers, the brain’s use of noise has a lot to teach us.
Office work feels draining for a reason. Your brain builds up toxic chemicals when you concentrate for a long time.
Life expectancy rose in western Europe in 2021 but fell further in US and eastern Europe.
A study of tweets posted in 2019 found that tweets about elephant conservation didn’t align with the actual greatest threats to the animals, creating the risk that funding could be misdirected.
There never was a ‘maximum bill of £2,500’.
Around a quarter of women have clinically heavy periods.
Predators are often confused by large groups of prey animals. But not the Swainson’s hawk.
More people died from the austerity in the five years before the pandemic than have died from COVID since.
It’s bad for the party of government – and the closer you look, the worse it gets.
Warming ocean water is ‘rocket fuel’ for increasingly destructive hurricanes.
Historical accounts show the upokororo was once common in rivers across the country. It’s now officially extinct, but is there a chance survivors could still be found in remote waterways?
You need an AI and lots of data to work out whether there’s any foul play in a chess game.
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Director of the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
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Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Oxford
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Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbiology, University of Oxford
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Researcher in Music, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in Climate Change Biology, University of Oxford
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Senior Researcher in Economics, University of Oxford
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Global Head of Wildlife Research, World Animal Protection, and Visiting Researcher, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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DPhil Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
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Professor of Climate Science, University of Oxford
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Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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Stipendiary Lecturer in Biology, University of Oxford
