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The Importance of Maintaining Mobility in Ageing and Dementia

Sunday 15th May 2016

Dementia has become a major challenge for our society. We have an increasing population of adults aged over 65 years and the number of people living with dementia in the…

How a singing maths teacher won hearts and minds at Famelab 2016

Tuesday 26th April 2016

Famelab 2016 winner Kyle Evans explains the inspiration behind his folk-math style which won him top spot at the Oxford regional heats and the national finals. Having toured the UK…

Lexi aged 9 takes a walk on the wild side with Science Oxford and tells the ‘tail’!

Tuesday 1st March 2016

Lexi Eades went along to animal show ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ at Abingdon School this February half-term, and met a colourful array of weird and wonderful creatures! Hear about the day in…

Never stop exploring!

Tuesday 23rd February 2016

Blog written by Dr Melanie Windridge What is so very wonderful about science is the opportunity to go out and explore, to learn something new, to keep asking “why?” We…

Can we save the banana before it splits?

Friday 19th February 2016

Did you know.. The flavouring in banana sweets is derived from the Big Mike, not the Cavendish We consume over 100 billion bananas a year Bananas are clones Bananas are…

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 29th January 2016

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…

Science Oxford’s new Creative Computing Club

Wednesday 6th January 2016

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 14th December 2015

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 10th December 2015

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 8th December 2015

“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 1st December 2015

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….

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