Research into how we spend our time – in this country and other countries around the world – is the focus of an international conference, hosted this week by the University of Oxford and sponsored by the Economic ...
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Oxford University researchers across the globe are working to beat Malaria. Now, a team of Oxford scientists in the UK and Kenya, working with colleagues in three Swiss institutes, have found two people who could reveal a ...
Dec 28, 2015
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How individuals respond to government advice on preventing the spread of COVID-19 will be at least as important, if not more important, than government action, according to a new commentary from researchers at the University ...
Mar 6, 2020
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Virtual reality can help treat severe paranoia by allowing people to face situations that they fear, an Oxford University study with patients from the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has found. The virtual reality simulations ...
May 5, 2016
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Humans are particularly good at using generalizations from past experiences to make broad assumptions when they are faced with little information about new experiences.
Jul 8, 2019
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The discovery of a new way to target and treat the leading genetic contributor to Parkinson's may open the way for a potential new clinical treatment.
May 3, 2019
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New genetic evidence reveals that most British men are not descended from farmers who migrated into Europe from the east 5,000–10,000 years ago – contrary to previous research.
Aug 24, 2011
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A study co-led by the Universities of Oxford, Birmingham and Southampton and the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA), published in Lancet Oncology today by the U.K. Coronavirus Cancer Evaluation Project, has found that while ...
May 23, 2022
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The rapid spread of the Alpha variant of COVID-19 resulted from biological changes in the virus and was enhanced by large numbers of infected people "exporting" the variant to multiple parts of the UK, in what the researchers ...
Jul 22, 2021
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A research team from Oxford University have shown how different colours of light could affect our ability to sleep.
Jun 8, 2016
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