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Chimpanzees use medicinal leaves to perform first aid

16 May 2025
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Americans Bond Over Grief, Brits Over Football: How Both Might Offer Second Chances for Ex-Prisoners

07 May 2025
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Mākereti Papakura, the first indigenous woman to study at Oxford, to be awarded a posthumous degree

30 April 2025
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New research by doctoral student Kimberly Schoemaker explores beach renourishment and its implications for climate-vulnerable coastal communities

28 April 2025
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Volume 6 of TRAJECTORIA is out now

14 April 2025
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Last chance to see 'Oracles, Omens and Answers' exhibition

07 April 2025
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Alpa Shah wins best nonfiction author prize at the AutHer Awards for 'The Incarcerations'.

26 March 2025
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Paul Basu to lecture on 'museum conservation and the forensis of provenance' at the Getty Conservation Institute

24 March 2025
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Rallying through the rubble - earthquake brings people in Turkey and Syria together

24 March 2025
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New research reveals chimpanzees act as 'engineers', choosing materials to make tools based on their structural and mechanical properties which make them ideal for the job

24 March 2025

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Scientists finally decode why most humans are right-handed

Article based on research published by  Dr Thomas A. Püschel, Rachel M. Hurwitz at Oxford's School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, with Professor Chris Venditti at the University of Reading,

The Independent | 19 May 2026

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COMPAS Blog - Beyond safety and necessity: Understanding Syria's mass return

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COMPAS Blog | 22 May 2026