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ASU scientists take steps to unlock the secrets to the fountain of youth
May 05, 2014 (SPX)
ASU scientists, together with collaborators from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, have published, in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, a firs...
Autism risk is half genetic, half environmental: study
May 04, 2014 (AFP)
A large study in Sweden has shown that genes are just as important as environmental factors in assessing the causes of autism. Researchers were surprised to dis...
Extreme sleep durations may affect brain health in later life
May 02, 2014 (SPX)
A new research study led by Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published in The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society in May, shows an association between ...
Neanderthals were not inferior to modern humans
May 02, 2014 (SPX)
If you think Neanderthals were stupid and primitive, it's time to think again. The widely held notion that Neanderthals were dimwitted and that their inferior i...
Brain Does Not Work The Way A Computer Does Recognizing Speech
May 02, 2014 (SPX)
How does the brain decide whether or not something is correct? When it comes to the processing of spoken language - particularly whether or not certain sound co...
DNA 'Sat Nav' directs you to your ancestor's home
May 02, 2014 (SPX)
Tracing where your DNA was formed over 1,000 years ago is now possible due to a revolutionary technique developed by a team of international scientists led by e...
British designer Heatherwick seeks cities with 'human scale'
Apr 30, 2014 (AFP)
Counting among his creations an Olympic cauldron, a sunken desert oasis and a London double-decker bus, British designer Thomas Heatherwick can at the very leas...
Genomic diversity and admixture differs for Stone-Age Scandinavian foragers and farmers
Apr 29, 2014 (SPX)
An international team led by researchers at Uppsala University and Stockholm University reports a breakthrough on understanding the demographic history of Stone...
Cyber buddy is better than 'no buddy'
Apr 24, 2014 (SPX)
A Michigan State University researcher is looking to give exercise enthusiasts the extra nudge they need during a workout, and her latest research shows that a ...
Too many chefs: Smaller groups exhibit more accurate decision-making
Apr 24, 2014 (SPX)
The trope that the likelihood of an accurate group decision increases with the abundance of brains involved might not hold up when a collective faces a variety ...
What gave us the advantage over extinct types of humans
Apr 24, 2014 (SPX)
In parallel with modern man (Homo sapiens), there were other, extinct types of humans with whom we lived side by side, such as Neanderthals and the recently dis...
It's a bubble, but not as we know it
Apr 24, 2014 (SPX)
Multi-sensory technology that creates soap bubbles, which can have images projected onto them or when the bubbles are burst release a scent, will be unveiled at...
Microbes provide insights into evolution of human language
Apr 24, 2014 (SPX)
Big brains do not explain why only humans use sophisticated language, according to researchers who have discovered that even a species of pond life communicates...
Neanderthals and Cro-magnons did not coincide on the Iberian Peninsula
Apr 17, 2014 (SPX)
The meeting between a Neanderthal and one of the first humans, which we used to picture in our minds, did not happen on the Iberian Peninsula. That is the concl...
Researchers say Neanderthals were no strangers to good parenting
Apr 15, 2014 (SPX)
Archaeologists at the University of York are challenging the traditional view that Neanderthal childhood was difficult, short and dangerous. A research team fro...
New method confirms humans and Neandertals interbred
Apr 09, 2014 (SPX)
Technical objections to the idea that Neandertals interbred with the ancestors of Eurasians have been overcome, thanks to a genome analysis method described in ...
Indigenous societies' 'first contact' typically brings collapse, but rebounds are possible
Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)
It was disastrous when Europeans first arrived in what would become Brazil - 95 percent of its population, the majority of its tribes, and essentially all of it...
New Technique Sheds Light on Human Neural Networks
Mar 28, 2014 (SPX)
Using spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM) techniques developed by Gabriel Popescu, director of the lab, the researchers were able to show for the first...
Technofossils are an unprecedented legacy left behind by humans
Mar 28, 2014 (SPX)
A new study by an international team of scientists, including Dr Jan Zalasiewicz and Professor Mark Williams of the University of Leicester's Department of Geol...
Scientists build 'designer' chromosome
Mar 28, 2014 (AFP)
Scientists say they have built the first synthetic chromosome for a complex-celled organism after a seven-year effort, a step towards man-made genomes that some...
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