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The final piece in the dementia puzzle is at the door.
There is a difference between people who deliberately seek out vaccines outside the system, and those who are offered them because they’re about to expire.
Religious opposition over a link to abortions performed decades ago and misunderstandings about effectiveness could lead to a nightmare of angry patients and wasted vaccine.
In a pandemic that exacerbates the gap between rich and poor, was the UK always doomed to have an enormous death toll?
A significant number of African countries might not make a decisive leap to renewables this decade.
A transcript of episode 4 of The Conversation Weekly podcast. Including a story on how scientists are speeding up the hunt for dark matter.
Entrenched inequality in most of Latin America has led to worsening poverty rates and increasing violence and instability/
Plus new research finds a way to speed up the search for dark matter. Listen to episode 4 of The Conversation Weekly.
En 1959, trois hommes armés ont fait irruption à l'Institut de microbiologie de l'Université de Montréal et ont dérobé 75 000 flacons d'un vaccin contre la polio. Avons-nous appris de cet événement ?
VR treatment can overcome many of the challenges of traditional therapy.
In 1959, three armed men broke into the University of Montréal and stole the whole supply of polio vaccine — 75,000 vials valued at $50,000. What have we learned from this event?
The pandemic has brought humanity’s strained relationship with nature into sharp focus.
Paying out 70% of salary for six months would line us up with much of the rest of the developed world.
The Perseverance rover’s landing could help reveal secrets of Mars’ interior.
The Hunger Games salute, teabags and Pepe the Frog are being adopted by young pro-democracy activists across south-east Asia.
From February 15, people travelling to the UK from a country on the UK’s travel-ban list will be required to quarantine in a government-approved hotel for ten days.
If you still haven’t seen this movie about a jazz pianist whose soul goes on a great adventure, it’s about time you did.
Unsettlingly, it appears that spiders’ legs really do have minds of their own.
The rules of impeachment in the US Constitution are vague, but here’s how the trial of Donald Trump in the US Senate will work.
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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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Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
