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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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Rising pollution on the Delhi-Jaipur expressway. Credit: Sudarshan Jha/Shutterstock

Expert Comment: Air pollution cools climate more than expected – making cutting carbon emissions more urgent

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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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Think of the woman fetching water for her family or cooking over a woodstove…she suffers more from the degradation of our natural biomass and water resources than anyone else

Expert comments: COP27 Gender Day

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Professor Myles Allen: Speaking last weekend on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Professor Allen used lumps of coal to illustrate how much fossil fuel the world has already burned – and continues to burn, despite efforts to reduce emissions. He said, ‘Calls

We must stop fossil fuels causing global warming, before the world stops using fossil fuels - Prof Myles Allen

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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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Bacterial armour plating has implications for antibiotics

Bacterial armour plating has implications for antibiotics

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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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