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Latest Humanitas visiting professors announced
Arts at Oxford: This term's programme of Humanitas visiting professorships has been announced.
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Early feast clue to smell of ancient Earth
1,900 million-year-old fossils from rocks around Lake Superior give the first ever snapshot of organisms eating each other and suggest what the ancient Earth would have smelled like.
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Doubt over 'volcanic winter' after Toba super-eruption
New research from Oxford University casts doubt on the theory that the Mount Toba super-eruption, which took place at the Indonesian island of Sumatra 75,000 years ago, could have plunged the Earth into a volcanic winter leading to the near extinction of early humans.
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Genetic fingerprints can track drug resistance in malaria parasites
Resistance to the frontline malaria drug artemisinin can be identified by surveying the genomes of malaria parasite populations, a worldwide research collaboration has shown.