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Are human beings still evolving?

Homo sapiens have been around for 250,000 years - surely...

Big Data in the UK Biobank: Opportunities and Challenges

The UK Biobank allows scientists to access a vault of...

From Conquest to Control

From the 1880s through to the First World War, European...

Our Changing Bodies: The lessons of anthropometric history

What can the study of height, health and welfare teach...

The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition and Development in the Western World since 1700

At the end of the eighteenth century, the average British...

Assessing the Three New Science & Society Commissions

Discovering Australia: The legend and the reality of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders is remembered as one of Britain’s greatest navigator-explorers...

Percy Grainger: Australia's greatest composer?

We can think of world-leading Australians in sport (Don Bradman)...

Incest and Folk-Dancing: Two things to be avoided

How closely are we related to each other, and how...

A is for Autism

Half a million people in the UK are on the...