Earlier this year, Professor Eleanor Stride from Oxford University's Institute of Biomedical Engineering won the 2014 IET A F Harvey Engineering Prize.
The largest telescope ever built will enable astronomers to create the biggest maps of the Universe yet, capturing vast swathes of the sky in 3D and helping to test ideas about the shape and composition of the cosmos.
Economic 'games' routinely used in the lab to probe people's preferences and thoughts find that humans are uniquely altruistic, sacrificing money to benefit strangers.
In a 3-part of the BBC's science documentary series Horizon, starting tonight on BBC2 at 9 pm, Susan Jebb and Paul Aveyard from Oxford University, together with Giles Yeo and Fiona Gribble from Cambridge, explore whether personalized diets tailored to different causes of overeating can succeed where other diets have failed.
The proportion of the Earth's crust that may be capable of supporting life could be much greater than previously thought.
That's according to new research into the hydrogen-rich waters trapped in rock fractures kilometres below the Earth's surface [see this nice BBC piece].
A sweet-smelling chemical marker in the breath of children with type 1 diabetes could enable a handheld device to 'sniff out' the condition before a child becomes seriously ill.
A giant study of genetic variants previously associated with cases of severe malaria has tidied up the existing evidence and provided a platform for further discoveries in understanding genetic influences on the disease.
The study confirmed some well-established findings, while more than 20 previously reported associations could not be confirmed.
