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The five candidates in the final round of the election for the historic position have been announced.

The Conversation UK, Curtis Brown and Faber are pleased to announce our three judges for The Conversation Prize for writers: Miriam Frankel, senior science editor at The Conversation UK, Priya Atwal, historian, broadcaster and community history fellow at the University of Oxford, and Alice Hunt, professor of early modern literature…

‘Soft’ droplet battery is the first of its kind and has already been used to control mouse hearts

Exclusive: 10-year study finds menopausal women of Chinese and black African backgrounds about 80% less likely to get HRT

The University of Oxford has retained top place in an international league table for a record-breaking ninth year in a row.

There are around 7,500 new ovarian cancer cases in the UK every year

The jab is being developed in the UK.

The hope is the jab could be given to all women preventatively on the NHS to eliminate the disease, which is the sixth most common cancer in women.

‘A few decades ago the idea of a cancer vaccine was science fiction’ – but it is now becoming more of a reality, says Dr Claire Bromley from Cancer Research UK

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Cobenfy, which is owned by pharmaceutical firm Bristol Myers Squibb.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a rare galaxy at the dawn of time that may be a "missing link" between the oldest generation of stars and the ones we see near Earth.