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A spacecraft shaped like a box with two arms in orbit above the Moon's surface.

Oxford University-built instrument ready to map water on the Moon

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A male scientist in a white coat loads a sample into a machine using a pipette.

Nanopore technology achieves breakthrough in protein variant detection

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A satellite monitors a developing typhoon on Earth (seen as a spiral shaped cloud). Image credit: Shutterstock/ NASA

Researchers successfully train a machine learning model in outer space for the first time

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Groups of people look at posters displayed in a large historic stone hall. Light filters into the room through large windows.

Science Together celebrates a second successful year of community-led research collaborations

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Several glass structures of molecules are suspended in the air: the molecules have a central atom, with four connected ones radiating outwards. Image credit: Shutterstock.

Oxford chemists achieve breakthrough achievement: hazard-free production of fluorochemicals

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Artistic depiction of the James Webb Space Telescope in outer space. The triangular structure is topped by a large concave circular reflecting mirror.

James Webb Space Telescope detects interstellar dust grains in the first billion years of cosmic time

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A sea urchin with spines protruding all over its surface, some of which are caught in a plastic bag.

New study finds plastic pollution to be almost ubiquitous across coral reefs, mostly from fishing activities

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Rod-shaped Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria fill the alveoli sacs of an individual’s lungs. The alveolar sacs appear as a cluster of tiny, interconnected air sacs resembling a delicate network of bubbles. Credit: Shutterstock.

Study reveals new mechanism for rapid evolution of multi-drug resistant infections in patients

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Professor Harrison Steel with members of the Control Engineering lab. Photo: Olivia Gaskin

Harrison Steel and Mihir Sheth named Young Engineers of the Year by Royal Academy of Engineering

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A fossil imprint of a circular animal with wave-like impressions radiating out from the centre to the edges. Credit: Lidya Tarhan.

New Oxford study sheds light on the origin of animals

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