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Our obsession with gut health, diet and well-being is far from new: the Victorians had very similar concerns.
Brexit, bots and jobs and bitcoin are set to dominate economics news in 2018.
Some say Britain should be proud of its imperial past. Oxford academics say it's not so simple.
Inconsistencies in how judges handle appeal cases and different levels of legal provision around the country can leave asylum seekers facing a lottery.
This massive savannah needs restoration but we can't rely on food companies to do the hard work.
If you can't use Bitcoin to buy anything then it has no intrinsic value.
The self-declared territory of Somaliland has held peaceful elections since it broke away from Somalia in 1991. But last month's polls triggered protests that should be cause for reflection.
New findings reveal only 1.5% of all offers from Oxford and Cambridge went to black British A-level students.
Life expectancy has been steadily improving in the UK for 110 years. Until now.
AML can kill with surprising rapidity. Luckily new treatments are on the horizon.
A bold new commitment from the cocoa and chocolate industry to end deforestation is welcome. But we must avoid blaming the farmers.
Worries about the loss of low-skilled labour risk obscuring a genuine flaw in the UK economy at the upper end of the scale.
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Pain is something everyone experiences. This episode of The Anthill podcast explores how and why it works in our brains, what kinds of drugs are being developed to reduce pain, and whether or not robots of the future should be built so that they experience pain.
Five tricks that might help you get what you want from others.
A kingdom under pressure is fomenting crisis elsewhere.
How can we sort out the crisis of contemporary democracy?
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has brought dramatic change and his intolerance for corruption won him worldwide admiration. But his repressive means to stay in power are being questioned.
Aliens are highly likely to undergo natural selection, shows new research.
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Professor of Haematology, University of Oxford
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PhD Student, University of Oxford
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Senior Researcher in Statistical Genetics and Pathogen Dynamics, University of Oxford
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Researcher in Inherited Cardiac Conditions; Genetic counsellor, University of Oxford
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Doctoral Candidate in Politics, University of Oxford
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Senior Research Associate, University of Oxford
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Acting Director, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
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Professor in the Sociology of Politics, Official Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Biophysics, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of Politics, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Engineering, University of Oxford
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Senior Researcher, Diet and Obesity, University of Oxford
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Oxford
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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