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Having the genetics of a night owl protects night shift workers against sleep loss

Brain health
Genetics
Health
Research
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Time to step inside your DNA

Global study shows the experience of Endometriosis is rooted in genetics

Genetics
Health
Medical Sciences
Research
Change is needed to the way safer sleep information is communicated, if risks to babies from unsafe sleeping practices are to be reduced

New report promoting safer sleeping for babies in England

Health
Policy
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A large drilling machine in the middle of a mining site. Image credit: Shutterstock.

New method shows promise for locating deposits of critical metals

Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science
Hospital

Prostate cancer AI diagnosis tool begins evaluation in Oxford

Artificial Intelligence
Cancer
Medical Sciences
Research
A flow of zero and one digits, representing data, with parts of this highlighted to give the image of a padlock. Image credit: Shutterstock.

New breakthrough enables perfectly secure digital communications

Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science
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Oxford awarded £1.25 million official funding to accelerate vital research, and go from local to global

Funding
Innovation
Research
Social Sciences
A row of helium gas canisters. Image credit Shutterstock.

New study could help pinpoint hidden helium gas fields – and avert a global supply crisis

Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science
The analysis also suggested a novel role for the red hair colour gene, melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) in reproductive biology

Genetic variants influencing human fertility identified - new research

Research
Social Sciences
An artist’s impression of an X-ray binary star system. This shows the normal star in yellow/red, the disc of rotating matter, the neutron star sitting in its centre, and the ‘radio jet’ shooting out. Credit: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

Major collaboration reveals new insights on binary star systems

Astrophysics
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science

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