No evidence linking Facebook adoption and negative well-being

Published on August 2, 2023

The largest independent scientific study ever conducted, investigating the spread of Facebook across the globe found no evidence that the social media platform’s worldwide penetration is linked to widespread psychological harm, according to research today from leading Oxford internet researchers.  
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Nanopore technology achieves breakthrough in protein variant detection

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A team of scientists led by the University of Oxford have achieved a significant breakthrough in detecting modifications on protein structures. The method, published in Nature Nanotechnology, employs innovative nanopore technology to identify structural variations at the single-molecule level, even deep within long protein chains.