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Geneticist wants to revive Neanderthals
Jan 22, 2013 (UPI)
A U.S. geneticist from Harvard who helped start the Human Genome Project says he's looking for an "adventurous" woman to give birth to a Neanderthal. Professor ...
Chimpanzees successfully play the Ultimatum Game
Jan 18, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, are the first to show chimpanzees possess a sense of fairness that has previously ...
Gene flow from India to Australia about 4,000 years ago
Jan 18, 2013 (SPX)
Australia is thought to have remained largely isolated between its initial colonization around 40,000 years ago and the arrival of Europeans in the late 1800s. ...
DNA database not so anonymous on the Internet: study
Jan 18, 2013 (AFP)
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog -- but it is getting increasingly easy for someone to figure it out. As more and more of our personal data -- and tho...
Study: Chimps can use gestures to achieve specific goals cooperatively
Jan 17, 2013 (UPI)
Chimpanzees are capable of using gestures to communicate with each other as they pursue goals such as finding a hidden piece of food, U.S. researchers say. Rese...
Outside View: How could we be so stupid?
Jan 15, 2013 (UPI)
Today is a bad day for many with quarterly income tax estimates due to the U.S. government but a really bad day occurred five days short of 94 years ago. On Jan...
Australia study debunks existence of 'sixth sense' or ESP
Jan 14, 2013 (UPI)
The belief that a sixth sense, also known as extrasensory perception, exists has no foundation in science, researchers at the University of Melbourne say. Inste...
Eliminating useless information important to learning, making new memories
Jan 10, 2013 (SPX)
As we age, it just may be the ability to filter and eliminate old information - rather than take in the new stuff - that makes it harder to learn, scientists re...
Dopamine-receptor gene variant linked to human longevity
Jan 09, 2013 (SPX)
A variant of a gene associated with active personality traits in humans seems to also be involved with living a longer life, UC Irvine and other researchers hav...
Tech world crawling into the crib
Jan 09, 2013 (AFP)
One is never too young to be connected. The technology industry displaying its wares at the massive Consumer Electronics Show this week included a variety of pr...
Promising compound restores memory loss and reverses symptoms of Alzheimer's
Jan 09, 2013 (SPX)
A new ray of hope has broken through the clouded outcomes associated with Alzheimer's disease. A new research report published in January 2013 print issue of th...
Did Lucy walk, climb, or both?
Jan 08, 2013 (SPX)
Much has been made of our ancestors "coming down out of the trees," and many researchers view terrestrial bipedalism as the hallmark of "humanness." After all, ...
Japan's population logs record drop
Jan 07, 2013 (AFP)
Japan's population logged a record drop in 2012, health ministry estimates showed Tuesday, highlighting concerns that an ever-dwindling pool of workers is havin...
Study refutes accepted model of memory formation
Jan 04, 2013 (SPX)
A study by Johns Hopkins researchers has shown that a widely accepted model of long-term memory formation - that it hinges on a single enzyme in the brain - is ...
Reading a good book may make permanent changes to your brain
Jan 03, 2013 (UPI)
Reading an inspiring story or novel that changed your life may have done so by changing your brain, researchers at Emory University in Atlanta report. In a stud...
Decision to give a group effort in the brain
Dec 28, 2012 (SPX)
A monkey would probably never agree that it is better to give than to receive, but they do apparently get some reward from giving to another monkey. During a ta...
Fluctuating environment may have driven human evolution
Dec 27, 2012 (SPX)
A series of rapid environmental changes in East Africa roughly 2 million years ago may be responsible for driving human evolution, according to researchers at P...
Scientists construct first map of how the brain organizes everything we see
Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)
Our eyes may be our window to the world, but how do we make sense of the thousands of images that flood our retinas each day? Scientists at the University of Ca...
Do palm trees hold the key to immortality?
Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)
For centuries, humans have been exploring, researching, and, in some cases, discovering how to stave off life-threatening diseases, increase life spans, and obt...
US shooting revives debate over videogame violence
Dec 19, 2012 (AFP)
The massacre of 26 people, mostly young children, at a US school has revived the perennial debate about the impact of violent videogames on the warped minds of ...
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