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Hair today, hungover tomorrow as young Japanese come of age
Jan 09, 2017 (AFP)
Draped in dazzling kimonos, thousands of expensively made-up young Japanese women marked their entry into adulthood on Monday -- with many planning a night on t...
Ancient DNA can both diminish and defend modern minds
Jan 03, 2017 (SPX)
You've likely heard about being in the right place at the wrong time, but what about having the right genes in the wrong environment? In other words, could a ge...
'Latest spoke in the wheel' drives brain-mapping advances
Jan 03, 2017 (SPX)
Advances in microscopy techniques have often triggered important discoveries in the field of neuroscience, enabling vital insights in understanding the brain an...
New study finds evolution of brain and tooth size were not linked in humans
Jan 03, 2017 (SPX)
A new study from the George Washington University's Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology (CASHP) found that whereas brain size evolved at differe...
Study: Language barriers holding back global science
Dec 30, 2016 (UPI)
The domination of English and a lack of translation is hurting global science, new research suggests. According to a new study in the journal PLOS Biology, the ...
Archaeologists: Chaco Canyon inhabitants likely relied on imported food
Dec 29, 2016 (UPI)
Chaco Canyon was once host to several thousand people. By A.D. 1100, it was the pinnacle of Pueblo culture in the American Southwest. Yet, its soil was unable t...
Earliest evidence discovered of plants cooked in ancient pottery
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
A team of international scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has uncovered the earliest direct evidence of humans processing plants for food found anyw...
Chimpanzees are 'indifferent' when it comes to altruism
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
New research into chimpanzees suggests that, when it comes to altruistically helping a fellow chimpanzee, they are 'indifferent'. The paper, published in Nature...
Dental hygiene, caveman style
Dec 19, 2016 (SPX)
Bits of wood recovered from a 1.2-million-year-old tooth found at an excavation site in northern Spain indicate that the ancient relatives of man may have use a...
Neurons paralyze us during REM sleep
Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)
During REM sleep, the brain inhibits the motor system, which makes the sleeper completely immobile. CNRS researchers working in the Centre de Recherche en Neuro...
Neanderthals visited seaside cave in England for 180,000 years
Dec 14, 2016 (UPI)
Neanderthals may have taken vacations, or at least they liked the view from the granite cliffs of Jersey. New evidence suggests Neanderthals visited La Cotte de...
Sex of prehistoric hand-stencil artists can be determined forensic analysis
Dec 13, 2016 (UPI)
Attempts to determine the sex of prehistoric hand-stencil artists have turned up contradicting conclusions. Researchers in England and South Africa suggest focu...
Study: Peripheral vision vulnerable to uniformity illusion
Dec 08, 2016 (UPI)
Many studies have revealed the fragility of human perception. Put simply, humans see things that aren't there for a variety of reasons. But some portions of a p...
Secrets of the paleo diet
Dec 07, 2016 (SPX)
A tiny grape pip (scale 1mm), left on the ground some 780,000 years ago, is one of more than 9,000 remains of edible plants discovered in an old Stone Age site ...
Human ancestor 'Lucy' was a tree climber, new evidence suggests
Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)
Evidence preserved in the internal skeletal structure of the world-famous fossil, Lucy, suggests the ancient human species frequently climbed trees, according t...
The role of physical environment in the 'broken windows' theory
Nov 22, 2016 (SPX)
For decades, the influential "broken windows" theory has linked signs of petty crime to bigger problems in a neighborhood. Largely left out of such discussions,...
Scientist uses 'dinosaur crater' rocks, prehistoric teeth to track ancient humans
Nov 22, 2016 (SPX)
Where's the best place to start when retracing the life of a person who lived 4,000 years ago? Turns out, it's simple - you start at the beginning. Using a meth...
Genes for speech may not be limited to humans
Nov 16, 2016 (SPX)
Our current understanding is that mice have either no - or extremely limited - neural circuitry and genes similar to those that regulate human speech. According...
Neanderthal inheritance helped humans adapt to life outside of Africa
Nov 11, 2016 (SPX)
As the ancestors of modern humans made their way out of Africa to other parts of the world many thousands of years ago, they met up and in some cases had childr...
Traumatic stress shapes the brains of boys and girls in different ways
Nov 11, 2016 (UPI)
New research show the brains of boys and girls are affected differently by trauma. The structural differences between young male and female PTSD patients were f...
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