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A group of young people dressed in black and holding red and green flags. (The team use these flags to demonstrate the body's immune system response to precancer and cancer vaccines in the video).

Cancer vaccines: responding to the early red flags

Making cancer curable is undoubtedly one of the biggest medical challenges we face. But what if we could actually…

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A work of art: the mystery of the first heartbeat

“How do we get order emerging from randomness?” Poetically speaking, our heart is our centre – an organ that…

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Phytoplankton: the lungs of the Earth

You may have heard rainforests described as the ‘lungs of the Earth’, but what about the oceans? On the…

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Science and the Satirists

“As we scroll, somewhat aimlessly, through our social media feeds, it seems reasonable to think that we are in…

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Meteorites: the magnetic key to the early Solar System

How can we begin to understand events that happened billions of years ago, like the birth of our Solar…

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Life in the Field: Exploring the Seafloor

Hydrothermal systems, where water is heated by magma beneath the Earth’s crust, are much like the little sisters of…

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What is a digital brain twin?

Each of us is different. Our genetics and life experiences shape us into unique individuals – with unique brains.…

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How can we use AI to make drugs?

Put simply, most drugs work by binding to a protein and altering how they function. But how can we…

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How do you build the aeroplane of the future?

In 2022, 7% of the UK’s total carbon emissions came from the aviation sector – a figure that’s on…

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Should I be freaked out by the hantavirus?

Until recently, most of us had probably never even heard of the hantavirus. Now – with memories of the…

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Should we kill animals for conservation?

‘Killing animals’ and ‘conservation’ sound mutually exclusive, but when it comes to managing populations that are having a negative…

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Can you predict the lottery?

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Expert Comment: The UK’s Autumn budget. Tax rises are coming; let’s design them well

The Chancellor will deliver the Autumn Budget on 26 November 2025. In a pre-Budget statement from Downing Street, Rachel Reeves…

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Saturn’s icy moon may host a stable ocean fit for life, new study finds

A new study led by researchers from Oxford University and Southwest Research Institute and the Planetary Science Institute in…

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Discovery reveals ‘handbrake’ that controls cancer drug response

A world-first discovery, published in the journal Science, rewrites our understanding of how cells control the production of DNA’s…

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