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Oxford biologists comment on new Genetic Technology Act

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New study shows artificial intelligence could help locate life on Mars

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New method shows promise for locating deposits of critical metals

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New breakthrough enables perfectly secure digital communications

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New study could help pinpoint hidden helium gas fields – and avert a global supply crisis

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An artist’s impression of an X-ray binary star system. This shows the normal star in yellow/red, the disc of rotating matter, the neutron star sitting in its centre, and the ‘radio jet’ shooting out. Credit: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

Major collaboration reveals new insights on binary star systems

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New hub receives £2 million to develop the communications technologies of tomorrow

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Operation Pangolin launches to save world’s most trafficked wild mammal

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A scanning electron microscope image of the shell of the planktonic foraminifera species Globigerinella adamsi.

Large-scale fossil study reveals origins of modern-day biodiversity gradient 15 million years ago

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World’s oldest European hedgehog found in citizen science project

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