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A clay tablet with wedge shaped marks (cuneiform script). The tablet is cracked horizontally and vertically into three pieces.

Researchers extract ancient DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick, revealing a time capsule of plant life

Biology
Genetics
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
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Science
When it gets too hot to work, people lose income, which means households may struggle to afford to buy food. This is experienced more in countries with vulnerable and informal work patterns – especially agriculture

Heat can cause rapid food insecurity in days, says Oxford research

Climate
Environment
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Social Sciences
A spacecraft shaped like a box with two arms in orbit above the Moon's surface.

Oxford University-built instrument ready to map water on the Moon

Astrophysics
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The Oxford study used well-being data from nearly a million people across 72 countries over 12 years and harnessed actual individual usage data from millions of Facebook users worldwide to investigate the impact of Facebook on well-being.

No evidence linking Facebook adoption and negative well-being

Research
Social Sciences
West African archaeology to benefit from partnership of Oxford School of Archaeology and Museum of West African Art

West African archaeology to benefit from partnership of Oxford School of Archaeology and Museum of West African Art.

Education
Research
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A male scientist in a white coat loads a sample into a machine using a pipette.

Nanopore technology achieves breakthrough in protein variant detection

Innovation
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
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The aqueduct at Pont du Gard

What did the Romans do for us? Aqueducts and the art of Roman water management

Research
Social Sciences
A satellite monitors a developing typhoon on Earth (seen as a spiral shaped cloud). Image credit: Shutterstock/ NASA

Researchers successfully train a machine learning model in outer space for the first time

Artificial Intelligence
Astrophysics
Innovation
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
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Science
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COVID-19 measures reduced life-threatening invasive bacterial infections

Coronavirus
Health
Medical Sciences
Policy
Research
Founded in 1902, the British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences

Twelve Oxford academics elected 2023 British Academy Fellows

Awards
Humanities
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