A new leaf: The Botanic Garden’s new director shares his grand vision

A new leaf: The Botanic Garden’s new director shares his grand vision

A new leaf: The Botanic Garden’s new director shares his grand vision
The tall and the short of it: How average English height had changed over 2,000 years

The tall and the short of it: How average English height has changed over 2,000 years

Ups and downs of height over 2,000 years are a striking index of population wellbeing, new research shows.

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Shrimp Floyd… New species named after rock legends
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April 2017 crossword

Crossword — April 2017

Crack April’s crossword competition to win How English Became English: A Short History of a Global Language, by Simon Horobin.

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Crossword — February 2017
The Paddy Summerfield competition results
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Why China aims to be number one superpower by 2049
Why China aims to be number one superpower by 2049

The seeds of ambition are historical but all-important, says Oxford analyst Tom Miller.

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How you can beat the bankers at their own game
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Catch a virus, kill a cancer: The new world of virotherapy

Catch a virus, kill a cancer: The new world of virotherapy

Oxford scientist Len Seymour is honing a radical new weapon in the long war to defeat cancer.

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Lucy Kellaway: Compared with the girls I met at Oxford, I felt like Johnny Rotten
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Pride of place: Oxford puts a ‘great unrecorded history’ on the map

Pride of place: Oxford puts a ‘great unrecorded history’ on the map

The University’s museums unite to highlight lesbian, gay, bisexual and related heritage in their collections.

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‘So unfair’ — that’s the key to entertaining children, says playwright David Wood
Snapshots from the lost world of Rasputin’s dashing assassin
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A walk on the wild side with an Oxonian zoologist and wildlife vet

A walk on the wild side with an Oxonian zoologist and wildlife vet

Nigel Dougherty (St Anne’s, 1985) writes passionately on his work with animals in Africa and beyond.

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Gibraltar, my father’s lost Eden, is still shackled to a dream of empire
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