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When it comes to starting a family, timing is everything

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A flying insect sits on the rim of a large cup shaped plant.

Contours that kill: New study shows geometry influences prey capture in carnivorous pitcher plants

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Four Oxford academics awarded European Research Council Starting Grants to launch their ideas

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New ‘droplet battery’ could pave the way for miniature bio-integrated devices

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Oxford scientists honoured with four Royal Society Awards

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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
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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

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Nanopore technology achieves breakthrough in protein variant detection

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

Artificial Intelligence
Astrophysics
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Science Together celebrates a second successful year of community-led research collaborations

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