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A nurse from the mid-20th century answers the phone: Alice’s podcast will ask BBC audiences ‘What does Call the Midwife mean to you?’ and will produce new and diverse storytelling, and elicit untold local stories and intergenerational conversations inspir

Call the Academic: Oxford researcher wins BBC centenary grant for project exploring long-running ‘Midwife’ drama

Thinking outside the box to reduce CO2: Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is unavoidable in order to counterbalance hard-to-abate residual emissions. Credit: Shutterstock

Expert Comment: Five new(s) and five olds in the sixth IPCC report on mitigating climate change

Portrait of President Putin towering over a military march past: People’s identification with the Soviet Union appears to have a clear and growing basis in Russian public opinion, according to Professors Chaisty and Whitefield. Credit: Shutterstock.

Expert Comment: Putin’s Russia: people increasingly identify with the Soviet Union – here’s what that means

Adoption is a lifelong connection, a new family, for a child

Abused children who were adopted did ‘significantly better’ than those brought up in care – research

Unhappy girl using a smart phone: data shows girls experience a negative link between social media use and life satisfaction when they are 11-13 years old and boys when they are 14-15 years old. Credit: Shutterstock.

Negative impact of social media affects girls and boys at different ages – study

Energy security: Building a zero-carbon energy system will take time, but it will reduce dependence on imported gas and oil, protect consumers from the volatility of international fossil fuel markets, and decrease costs for consumers. Credit: Shutterstock

Delaying clean energy transition would be ‘lose-lose’ for UK energy security, households and the climate

Windfarm with sunset in background

Oxford launches new multi-disciplinary ZERO Institute

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