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Influenza vaccine in adults. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Oxford researchers: flu vaccine reduces by 50% the chance of adults going to intensive care as a result of complications

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People aged 65 and older who were vaccinated had a 41% lower risk of being hospitalized with the flu in general and among the severe patients - a 45% lower risk of going to intensive care
Using artificial intelligence to crack the genome of the corona virus. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Artificial intelligence offers drugs against the corona virus from the protein sequence only

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IBM's artificial intelligence model was able to find compounds that bind to different sites on target proteins against the corona disease caused by the covid virus and this without knowing the mechanism of the attachment of the virus to the cell
viruses. Illustration: shutterstock

How can research in bacteria answer the question of how did plants and animals develop new features such as wings and flowers?

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Dorothy Crawford-Hodgkin. From Wikipedia

Dorothy Croft Hodgkin - Queen of Africa and pioneer of X-ray crystallography

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Planets in another solar system. Illustration: shutterstock

Seven planets pop up on every hill - Kepler's discovery broke the record for planets in one solar system

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3.4 billion year old microscopic fossils discovered in Western Australia. Photo: University of Western Australia and University of Oxford

The oldest fossil was discovered - bacteria 3.4 billion years old

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A clean graphene surface as scanned with an electron microscope. Image: Vanderbilt University

Monoatomic sheets as the material of the future

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Elephants run away from the sounds of angry bees. Source: University of Oxford.

Elephants make warning sounds when threatened by bees

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The threat of an academic boycott in the UK has been lifted again

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The University of Oxford will resume experiments in the stock market

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The ice melted, the primordial bacteria began to move

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