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12 DNA areas ‘linked with the age at which we have our first child and family size’

Twelve DNA areas 'linked with the age at which we have our first child and family size'

Food bank volunteer

Strong link between increased benefit sanctions and higher foodbank use

Monkeys are seen making stone flakes so humans are ‘not unique’ after all

The Oxford skyline

Oxford has three new fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences

Wild-beard capuchin in Brazil is observed smashing stones and unintentionally creating flakes similar to those once created intentionally by hominins.

'Monkeys make stone flakes too so humans are not unique after all'

Public interest in plane crashes only predicted ‘if death toll is 50 or higher’

Teeth of ancient Britons reveal long journeys to sacred sites where they were buried

Wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight near Rossipne, Donetsk region of Ukraine.

When we care about some plane crashes and not so much others

Being kind to others does make you happy, concludes large-scale review of evidence

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