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How city birds adapt to life in the fast lane Sing high, sing fast. This is what songbirds have to do to survive in the din of city life, a study has found. Songbirds living in forests sing more...
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Murder case builder 'tortured academic for bank details' A cash-strapped builder tortured a talented Oxford academic to force her to hand over her bank details before leaving her to die, a court was...
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Rosalind Franklin Award
Deadline: 21/02/2007
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Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
Deadline: 20/02/2007
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Today's news
Last chance for Oxford reformers Reformers at Oxford University were yesterday handed a lifeline for their plans to strip academics of overall control of the executive body. About 200 dons have...
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Warning over 'playing politics' with the threat A leading academic yesterday warned politicians against "playing politics" with terrorism after John Reid, the Home Secretary, claimed an independent...
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A mental map of Archimedes' heirs
The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a writer once famously described as "English literature's performing flea": "My attention was drawn to...
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Uncowed, the ruthless Herbivores took control
The Middle Class
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In real science, invention often turns out to be the mother of necessity
Technology Matters
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Empires and fringes revisited, but riddle of the hen remains
The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume One
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The final steppe for Qianlong
China Marches West
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A dynastic diaspora
African Elites in India
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The first (or last) word on the trickster-spider
African Myths of Origin