As 2023 bids us farewell, we take a lovely linguistic detour, examining not only what we've talked about, but also how we've expressed it. Enter the Oxford Word of the Year, a fragment of vocabulary that captures our conversation. And what about the prize for 2023? It's "rizz," a noun sparkling Read More...
10 years ago, at the Large Hadron Collider in Cern, Switzerland, the world changed with the discovery of the Higgs boson, also known as the “God Particle.” This was evidence of the Higgs field, an invisible energy field throughout the universe. The discovery of the Higgs boson explains three Read More...
A new study spearheaded by Professor Sarah Blagden and Dr. Hagen Schwenzer, researchers from the University of Oxford, in collaboration with biopharmaceutical company NuCana, has led to a novel chemotherapy drug that demonstrates significant potency in killing cancer cells. The new drug, called Read More...
Researchers from the Rosalind Franklin Institute at Oxford University have identified an unusual source for a potential Covid-19 treatment: the llama and the Syrian hamster. Like humans, llamas produce antibodies to recognize and defeat infections, but their antibodies are unusually small, Read More...
Apart from being a source of entertainment, video gaming can also have a positive influence on your mental health. At least, that’s what a new study from Oxford University has found, in which the researchers used actual gameplay data to analyze players’ wellbeing. The research, which analyzed Read More...
Because of limited lab capacity, people getting tested for COVID-19 these days sometimes have to wait days or even weeks to get their results back, rendering the tests nearly useless. This often makes it incredibly difficult for contact tracers to find other infected patients in time to stop the Read More...
The path towards a coronavirus vaccine has been tumultuous, but a new trial from Oxford University is showing the most promise to date in developing an immune response to covid-19. The study of 1,077 people showed that the developed injection produced antibodies and T cells to fight the Read More...
As awareness of the oil industry’s role in the climate crisis has grown in recent years, so has the pressure from environmental groups and students on universities to divest from dirty fossil fuels. Now those efforts seem to be paying off, with one of the world’s most prestigious universities Read More...
We all know that regular exercise is critical for maintaining physical health, but what if getting your heart rate up could boost mental function as well? Research from the University of Calgary and Oxford University has found that increased blood flow to the brain stimulated by regular exercise is Read More...