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UK climate minister Katie White says a record El Niño leaves the food system vulnerable to the warm, wet, stormy winter the Met Office forecasts. Muddy fields could stop winter wheat being sown, just after the UK's worst-ever harvest.
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Researchers say two 5th-century BC Etruscan tombs were built as immersive sensory spaces, citing exceptionally long echoes in one of them. Their own account leaves open whether the sound was designed or simply came with the room.
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Oxford-led astronomers using DESI found 546 bulgeless galaxies with feeding black holes sit on the same black hole-to-stellar mass relation as bulged ones. A bulge usually signals past mergers, so the result favours growth fed by bars and spiral arms, if that proxy holds.
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Oxford-led researchers say the 590-million-year-old Weng'an Biota wrongly caps animal origins, pushing a clock estimate back about 200 million years. The resulting 800-to-700-million-year range depends on which older deposits replace Weng'an as the ceiling.
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AMNH and Oxford researchers report in Nature that 345-million-year-old Westlothiana had gills and a primitive skull. That takes away a fossil researchers have long used to date the origin of the group that includes reptiles, birds and mammals.
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Oxford and University of Southern Denmark researchers mapped 307 jaguar core areas and 176 corridors using GPS data from 172 collared cats. Most predicted movement runs through one South American stronghold, so the land choices that change connectivity lie in thinner links elsewhere.
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Veiled chameleon embryos form the pre-gastrulation cavity once thought unique to mammals, a Nature Communications study reports. The team proposes the lizard as a model for the earliest human stages, a period scientists rarely get to observe directly.
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Researchers say two fifth-century BC Etruscan tombs were built for sensory effect, citing exceptionally long reverberation in the Tomb of the Blue Demons. Intent stays an interpretation until the team publishes reverberation times measured against comparable chambers.
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Yemen's Houthis are advancing on Bab al-Mandab, the strait carrying 87% of Eritrea's maritime trade by value and US$520 billion of China's a year. Share and dollar value rank the exposed countries differently, and the researchers' US$30 billion estimate for a 30-day blockade is a global total.
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Anna Mittelholz of ETH Zurich and colleagues say a 60-km volcanic body under the Moon's Dewar swirl cooled in a field of at least 11.4 microteslas. They credit a core dynamo like Earth's, since the site's location makes an impact origin unlikely.
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Natural History Museum and Oxford researchers matched the timing of more than 6,000 Nigerian Lassa cases using rainfall and nearly 30 years of rodent data. Because the model runs on weather and rodent ecology, health authorities could use it to anticipate when the risk of spillover to people climbs each season.
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Oxford let OpenAI train on Bodleian texts it digitised, with 125,000 dissertation images shared by June 2025, internal documents show. Oxford says staff never hid the training use, though its 2025 announcement spoke only of wider access.
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One path of a rubidium atom was held against gravity while the other fell freely, and the phase the two arms accumulated matches what Einstein's equivalence principle predicts for a quantum wave.
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Alain Goriely worked through the refinements one at a time and found that either nobody has demonstrated the illusion or the effect is too small to see, and the earliest claim of intent postdates the temple by 400 years.
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CeMM and Oxford researchers degraded the protein NUDT5 in cells and made them resistant to 6-thioguanine, while inhibiting the same enzyme had little effect. The split separates what the protein catalyses from what it does by being present.
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Martin Maiden's team sequenced the bacterium from six Kent patients and matched it against 48,000 archived Neisseria genomes, finding iron-uptake and pilus genes acquired from species that live harmlessly in ordinary throats.
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Alain Goriely sets the stylobate's six-centimetre rise beside published curve-detection thresholds. Up close, he argues, the platform looks curved; at the distances where a sag would matter, the eye cannot see the curve at all.
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The Austrian Academy of Science built Apollo with Mistral and Sail Reply on roughly 600 million words of historical Greek, and made it free to academics through a chatbot. A scholar still picks the word that goes into the record.
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Bristol and Oxford researchers put all 104 matches through the UK's most powerful supercomputer and found harmful-commodity branding visible during 39.3 hours of live play, seven in ten appearances for food and drink.
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A team led by Mingsheng Zhan compared the freefall of two rubidium isotopes aboard the China Space Station. The 2.8 x 10^-8 uncertainty they report is the best any quantum test has managed. It is also well short of what macroscopic experiments already do.
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