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FameLab Heats Up

This January eighteen engaging, creative and daring individuals came together in Oxford to deliver a fast-paced performance extravaganza involving song, comedy and horror. These budding Prof. Brian Cox’s are part…

‘I’m an engineer…get me out of here’

Friday, January 29

Stevie Wray is an electrical engineer at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. Last year he won ‘I’m an engineer…get me out of here’ – a free online X Factor-style competition between…

Why we still don’t have personalised medicine, 15 years after sequencing the human genome

Tuesday, January 26

Blog by Bryony Graham – Science Oxford Saturday Science Club manager (This blog was first published on theconversation.com in December 2015) The completion of the first draft of the human…

Science Oxford’s new Creative Computing Club

Wednesday, January 06

There is nothing more rewarding for the Science Oxford outreach team than to watch the excitement and wonder in the eyes of the children we engage with about science. And as technological…

Oxford: Hands-On Science!

Monday, December 14

Ping! You had one new email. It said: “Not sure that you’d be interested, but you’ll be in Oxford that week so I thought maybe you’d want to do one…

Things are looking up in The Basement

Thursday, December 10

Last night The Oxford Trust opened up the doors of its new The Basement project – an underground creative and learning space in the Oxford Centre for Innovation on New Road. The…

All that Glitters, Glows, Poetry and Prose

Tuesday, December 08

“Oxford is the only place you can get away with wearing full academic dress,” says John Runions, doing so. It’s also the only place you can dress up as a…

Spectacular Space

Tuesday, December 01

On a wet and windy Saturday afternoon in November the Science Oxford family team made its way to the Earth Trust in Little Wittenham, near Abingdon, to run a Spectacular Space event….

In Good Taste

Friday, November 20

We spend around five percent of our waking hours thinking about our next meal – cereal or toast, sandwich or sushi – but rarely think of the science behind what…

The Heart and the Head

Thursday, November 05

I greeted the T-Rex, grabbed myself a paper brain and a paper heart and sat comfortably on my chair, listening to the sound of a folk band. No, this isn’t…

Can carrots help you see in the dark?

Friday, October 30

Do carrots help you see in the dark? Chemist, teacher and author Andy Brunning explains the mysteries of how our bodies respond to the chemicals in carrots – click the player below…

Just for Graphs

Tuesday, October 27

Maths is dull and boring – right? Something you have to learn in school and not the first thing you would think of as a topic for a successful comedy…

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