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QUT physicist corrects Oxford English Dictionary (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Queensland University of Technology (QUT) physics lecturer has found a 99-year-old mistake in the Oxford English Dictionary - and is having it corrected.

Physics / General Physics

created May 10, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (30) | comments 125 | with audio podcast

Oxford Nanopore announces groundbreaking GridION and MinION gene sequencers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford University spinoff company, Oxford Nonopore has announced at this year’s Advances in Genome Biology and Technology conference in Florida, two new machines for sequencing genes. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Archaeologists uncover prehistoric landscape beneath Oxford

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists excavating the former Radcliffe Infirmary site in Oxford have uncovered evidence of a prehistoric monumental landscape stretching across the gravel terrace between the Thames ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Oxford English Dictionary may never be printed again

The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the word reference bible of the English language, may never appear in print and instead be accessible only online, its publisher said Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Nanopore: the Oxford story

Last month Oxford University spinout firm Oxford Nanopore revealed that it is to produce a new DNA sequencing machine the size of a USB stick. ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Skeletons found in Oxford could be '10th-century Viking raiders'

(Phys.org) -- Thirty-seven skeletons found in a mass burial site in the grounds of St John's College may not be who they initially seemed, according to Oxford researchers studying the remains.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

'Unfriend' is New Oxford American word of the year

The New Oxford American Dictionary named "unfriend" -- as in deleting someone as a friend on a social network such as Facebook -- its word of the year on Monday.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0