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Photograph of a tropical butterfly

Nature prefers symmetry and simplicity

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pipette and test tubes

Professor Lynne Cox helps lead UK project to transform older age health

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Image of two hands setting a sensor

Seismometer technology field-tested in Antarctica before space missions

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Ipomoea aequatoriensis flowers at University of Oxford Department of Plant Sciences Photographs by Tom Wells

Mystery of sweetpotato origin uncovered, as missing link plant found by Oxford research

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We face a torrent of misinformation on topics great and small. The Royal Society report reviews the challenges of misinformation and what steps we can take to deal with them. It does not call for content removal as a panacea. Credit: Shutterstock

Royal Society cautions against online censorship of scientific misinformation

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Superbug MRSA arose in hedgehogs long before clinical use of antibiotics

Superbug MRSA arose in hedgehogs long before clinical use of antibiotics

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Sunset over the oil industry: Depleted oil fields are one of the targets for carbon dioxide burial.

Safer carbon capture and storage

Climate change
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Solar panel providing electricity to dwellings in rural Africa

New approach to predicting battery failure could help maintain electricity for millions around the world

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Packets of antibiotic pills

New resistance-busting antibiotic combination could extend the use of ‘last-resort’ antibiotics

Health
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CDC COVID 19 vaccination records

Key surveys overestimate COVID-19 vaccination rates in the USA

Coronavirus
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