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Artistic impression of the exoplanet WASP-39b. Image credit: Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

New data from James Webb Space Telescope reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before

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Four Oxford academics have been awarded competitive starting grants from the European Research Council. Image credit: University of Oxford Images / John Cairns Photography

Four Oxford academics ‘showing great promise’ awarded European Research Council Starting Grants

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Cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

First evidence drug resistant bacteria can travel from gut to lung, increasing infection risks

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A fragment of the Winchcombe Meteorite. Credit: Trustees of the Natural History Museum, NHM.

New analysis of Winchcombe meteorite reveals a window into the early solar system

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The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption as seen by Japan's Himawari-8 satellite, at 05:40 UTC on 15th January (about 1 hour 35 minutes into the eruption). Image credit: Simon Proud / STFC RAL Space / NCEO / JMA.

Tonga volcano had highest plume ever recorded, new study confirms

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A new EU-backed research consortium involving Oxford University will investigate whether quantum technologies could make precision measurements more energy efficient. Image credit: Shutterstock.

Oxford University joins €2.9 million Quantum Technologies Flagship project

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Artist's reconstruction of Gangtoucunia aspera as it would have appeared in life on the Cambrian seafloor, circa 514 million years ago. The individual in the foreground has part of the skeleton removed to show the soft polyp inside the skeleton.

500 million year-old fossils reveal answer to evolutionary riddle

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Global.health enables access to real-time, anonymized health data on infectious disease outbreaks, for the first time. Image credit: Shutterstock.

$3m Rockefeller Foundation funding to strengthen pandemic surveillance and response innovation co-developed by Oxford biologists

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First observation of surface waves on Mars reveals details of planet’s crust. Kim et al., (2022) Science.

Two major meteorite impacts reveal new insights about the surface of Mars

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Artistic reconstruction of the fossil squamate, Bellairsia gracilis, basking on a dinosaur footprint. Artwork by Dr Elsa Panciroli.

New Scottish fossil sheds light on the origins of lizards

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