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App lets Indigenous Brazilians connect in own languages
Jan 30, 2024 (AFP)
Hyper-connected Brazil has more cell phones than people -- over 250 million, for a population of 203 million, according to communications consultancy Teleco. Bu...
Activists decry Tibet 'cultural genocide' ahead of China rights review
Jan 22, 2024 (AFP)
United Nations experts and activists estimate that more than a million Tibetan children between the ages of three and 18 have been separated from their families...
Critically endangered gorilla born at London Zoo
Jan 18, 2024 (AFP)
Western lowland gorillas, which inhabit dense and largely remote rainforests in west and central Africa, are classified as having a high risk of becoming extinc...
Global study reveals increasing life expectancy and narrowing gender longevity gap
Jan 18, 2024 (SPX)
Historically, longevity has improved globally over two centuries. However, the patterns of mortality and longevity convergence across nations have remained a su...
Woolly mammoth movements tied to earliest Alaska hunting camps
Jan 18, 2024 (SPX)
Scientists made those connections by using isotope analysis to study the life of a female mammoth, named E'lmayuujey'eh, by the Healy Lake Village Council. A tu...
Money weighs on would-be Chinese parents as population falls
Jan 17, 2024 (AFP)
China's population decline accelerated in 2023, official figures released on Wednesday showed, shrinking by more than two million people. Long alarmed by fallin...
China's population decline accelerates in 2023
Jan 17, 2024 (AFP)
Once the world's most populous country, China was overtaken by India last year, with Beijing now scrambling to boost falling birth rates through subsidies and p...
Scientists clone first rhesus monkey using new method
Jan 16, 2024 (AFP)
Primates have proved particularly difficult to clone, and the scientists overcame years of failure by replacing the cloned cells that would become the placenta ...
Many cities across the United States could become ghost towns by 2100
Jan 14, 2024 (UPI)
"Close to half of the nearly 30,000 cities in the United States will face some sort of population decline," researchers from the University of Chicago in Illino...
Ancient cities provide insights for urban planning in the Anthropocene
Jan 12, 2024 (SPX)
In a new study, an interdisciplinary team of authors from the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology argue that the history of urbanism provides an important r...
Scientists discover dopamine at the heart of desire
Jan 12, 2024 (UPI)
The study, published Jan. 12 in the journal Current Biology, analyzed the habits of prairie voles, which are similar to humans in that they are one of the few m...
Orbitally-induced strong monsoons facilitated early human dispersal to East Asia
Jan 11, 2024 (SPX)
Led by Prof. AO Hong from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the researchers integrated a comprehensive compilation of...
Late apes: Biggest primate ever died off due to 'huge mistake'
Jan 10, 2024 (AFP)
Gigantopithecus blacki, which stood three metres tall (10 feet) and weighed up to 300 kilogrammes (660 pounds), thrived in the forests of southern Asia until a ...
Report: Huge primates died out because they couldn't adapt to changing climate
Jan 10, 2024 (UPI)
The 9-foot-tall Gigantopithecus blacki is believed to have lived from about 5 million years ago until a little over 200,000 years ago and is thought to be the l...
Primordial primate ancestors likely lived in pairs, contradicting Solitary Theory
Jan 10, 2024 (SPX)
The concept of pair living among primates, which involves long-term bonding between two adults, often includes shared responsibilities such as raising offspring...
Study reveals dietary adaptation of large herbivores to human impact in Anthropocene
Jan 04, 2024 (SPX)
The 20th century witnessed an exponential human population growth, soaring from 1.6 billion to over 6 billion. This surge has profoundly affected global environ...
North America's first people may have arrived by sea ice highway
Dec 18, 2023 (SPX)
But a growing number of archeological and genetic finds - including human footprints in New Mexico dated to around 23,000 years old - suggests that people made ...
To counter effect of facial biases in legal system, researchers suggest new training
Dec 14, 2023 (UPI)
Certain facial features, such as downturned lips and a heavy brow, can make someone seem untrustworthy, even though these do not have an effect on the person's ...
Smoking shrinks brain, says study linking cigarettes to Alzheimer's, dementia
Dec 12, 2023 (UPI)
The study at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and published Tuesday in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, set out to examine ...
Wild birds analyze grunts, whistles made by human honey-hunters
Dec 07, 2023 (AFP)
In a new study published Thursday in Science, researchers have found that honeyguide birds in Tanzania and Mozambique distinguish between honey-hunters' calls, ...
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