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Ovarian cancer cells under a microscope

Accurate predictions of ovarian cancer outcome possible with new classification system

Research
Health
the level of social media manipulation has soared, with governments and political parties spending millions on private sector ‘cyber troops’, who drown out other voices on social media

Social media manipulation by political actors an industrial scale problem - Oxford report

Research
Social Sciences
The results of this study suggest that dire wolves were more warm adapted and likely appeared more similar to dholes or South American canids with shorter, more reddish hair. They grey wolves in this image are included to show the contrast between the two

Dire Wolves: not just a Game of Thrones’ fantasy - a fearsome distinct, but extinct, canine

Social Sciences
Research
Domesday Book Cover

New insights from original Domesday survey revealed

Humanities
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Successful undergraduate offers for 2021

Admissions
University
The researchers found support for right-wing parties is strongly linked to scepticism on climate issues and opposition to climate-friendly policies

Link between climate scepticism and support for right-wing populists – study

Social Sciences
Climate change
Introductions into the UK of the COVID-19 virus

COVID-19 transmission chains in the UK accurately traced using genomic epidemiology

Coronavirus
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Supermarket visits have been relatively unaffected according to the Monitor which recorded national visits to large food shops of 4% more than pre-pandemic levels

UK population movement falls 59%, compared to -89% in March - Oxford COVID-19 Monitor

Social Sciences
Coronavirus
Schematic representation of a processor for matrix multiplications which runs on light. Together with an optical frequency comb, the waveguide crossbar array permits highly parallel data processing.

Light-carrying chips advance machine learning

Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
There is a prominent narrative in the energy planning community that the continent will be able to take advantage of its vast renewable energy resources and rapidly decreasing clean technology prices to leapfrog to renewables by 2030

Africa’s electricity unlikely to go green this decade

Environment
Social Sciences

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