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Boosting Synaptic Plasticity to Accelerate Learning

Mar 23, 2016 (SPX)

The body's branching network of peripheral nerves connects neurons in the brain and spinal cord to organs, skin, and muscles, regulating a host of biological fu...

Ancient Denisovan DNA excavated in modern Pacific Islanders

Mar 22, 2016 (SPX)

The archaic Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA that persists in modern individuals from the Pacific islands of Melanesia could be a source of new information about e...

Researchers find ancient DNA preserved in modern-day humans

Mar 22, 2016 (SPX)

Residents of the remote equatorial islands of Melanesia share fragments of genetic code with two extinct human species. That's the key finding of a new study pu...

Why did humans make more pottery after the last ice age?

Mar 21, 2016 (UPI)

Archaeologists believe pottery was invented by the people of ancient Japan some 16,000 years ago. But production was slow until the end the ice age. Around 11,5...

How the brain detects short sounds

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

For humans to understand speech and for other animals to know each other's calls, the brain must distinguish short sounds from longer sounds. By studying frogs,...

400,000-year-old fossils from Spain provide earliest genetic evidence of Neandertals

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

Previous analyses of the hominins from Sima de los Huesos in 2013 showed that their maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA was distantly related to Denisovans, ...

Early human habitat, recreated for first time, shows life was no picnic

Mar 14, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists have pieced together an early human habitat for the first time, and life was no picnic 1.8 million years ago. Our human ancestors, who looked like a ...

Neanderthal diet: Only 20 percent vegetarian

Mar 14, 2016 (UPI)

Neanderthals were apparently too busy hunting and scavenging to pay much attention to Michael Pollan's dietary advice: eat mostly plants. New isotopic analysis ...

Dalai Lama urges education reform to end human cruelty

Mar 11, 2016 (AFP)

The Dalai Lama called Friday for dramatic education reforms to put more emphasis on values such as compassion. "Frankly speaking, our generation, not much hope,...

Early human habitat model reveals a dangerous existence

Mar 10, 2016 (UPI)

Paleoanthropologists at Rutgers University recreated the African landscape of 1.8 million years ago to show what life was like for early humans. Surprise, it wa...

Meat, food processing key to early human evolution

Mar 09, 2016 (UPI)

Chimpanzees, humans' closest relatives, spend 50 percent of their waking life chewing their food. Humans spend much less time and devote much less energy chewin...

ONR Global sponsors research to improve memory through electricity

Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)

In a breakthrough study that could improve how people learn and retain information, researchers at the Catholic University Medical School in Rome significantly ...

Neanderthals and modern H. sapiens crossbred over 100,000 years ago

Feb 18, 2016 (SPX)

A multidisciplinary team which included participants from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has discovered that Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapien...

Neanderthals mated with modern humans much earlier than previously thought

Feb 18, 2016 (SPX)

Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of an interbreeding event bet...

Clues about human migration to Imperial Rome uncovered in 2,000-year-old cemetery

Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)

Isotope analysis of 2000-year-old skeletons buried in Imperial Rome reveal some were migrants from the Alps or North Africa, according to a study published Febr...

South Africa's Sterkfontein Caves produce 2 new hominin fossils

Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)

Two new hominin fossils have been found in a previously uninvestigated chamber in the Sterkfontein Caves, just North West of Johannesburg in South Africa. The t...

Minimally Invasive Stentrode Shows Potential as Neural Interface for Brain

Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)

A DARPA-funded research team has created a novel neural-recording device that can be implanted into the brain through blood vessels, eliminating the need for in...

Easter Island not destroyed by war, analysis of 'spear points' shows

Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)

Analysis of artifacts found on the shores of Rapa Nui, Chile (Easter Island) originally thought to be used as spear points reveal that these objects were likely...

Fossil analysis pushes back human split from other primates by 2 million years

Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)

A paper in the latest issue of the journal Nature suggests a common ancestor of apes and humans, Chororapithecus abyssinicus, evolved in Africa, not Eurasia, tw...

Modern 'Indiana Jones' on mission to save antiquities

Feb 17, 2016 (AFP)

A technology-wielding archeologist billed as a real-world "Indiana Jones" called Tuesday for an online platform that entices just about anyone to help find undi...