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Women of the Belle Époque: Understanding the ‘Beautiful Era’ Video feature: Can we make a sensor that can match a sniffer dog?
Dogs are amazing. Waggy tails, a healthy appreciation of sticks… and the most incredible noses around. Far more sensitive, in fact, than any man made sensors.
Scientists have invented chemiresistive thin film sensors, which use tiny organic compounds called conductive polymers to detect vapours, by measuring small changes in electrical resistance.
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Four Engineering Science academics announced as Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows
Royal Society appoints Dr Alan Roth Entrepreneur in Residence at Oxford
Saїd Business School announces Paul Polman as Board Chair
Law Professor Jeremias Prassl wins the St Petersburg International Legal Forum Private Law Prize
Professor Laura Hoyona to be part of government criminal justice review
Gorongosa National Park to collaborate with Oxford on 'Paleo-Primate Project'
EBRD appoints Oxford professor Beata Javorcik as new Chief Economist
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Oxford professor shares Man Booker International Prize for Arabic translation
Why one match a day is enough on dating sites
Oxford professor wins Costa biography prize for book on WW2
Oxford's new graduate college to focus on AI and climate change
Oxford University students give candidates their top interview tips
Moderate use of screen time can be good for your health, new study finds
Nothing clinically “wrong” with obsessive gamers, new study finds
Creating a trusted environment for the democratic use of technology
Vice-Chancellor's Oration 2019
Research, teaching and student support transformed by record-breaking fundraising campaign
Major European Research Council Synergy funding win for economic inequality project
Professor John Goodenough wins 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for lithium-ion battery research
The irresistible pull – when massive stars collide
Oxford highlights diversity with more portraits of black alumni
Sir Peter J Ratcliffe wins the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2019