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Richard Ovenden
Burning the Books: knowledge under attack from Ancient Assyria to the age of AIRichard Ovenden Bodley’s Librarian and Head of Gardens, Libraries and Museums at the University of Oxford Burning the Books: knowledge under attack from Ancient Assyria to the age of AI
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Professor Marika Taylor
From black holes to quantum computersSummary A quantum computer makes use of the quantum states of subatomic particles to store and process information. Quantum computing has the potential to solve certain types of problems much more quickly than standard computers can do, and thus many researchers are working on developing large scale quantum computers. Remarkably,…
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Sir Jim Smith
How lessons from frogs help mend a broken heartSummary Jim Smith began his career as a developmental biologist, studying the mechanisms by which cells in the embryo come to form the right kind of specialised cell type in the right place. He focussed on the development of the frog Xenopus laevis, where he identified some of the signals…
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