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ALS patient pioneering brain-computer connection
Aug 20, 2023 (AFP)
The 63-year-old Australian shared his thoughts by using his eyes to pinpoint letters on a screen and "clicking" on words with his mind. Thanks to an eight-milli...
The race to link our brains to computers is hotting up
Aug 20, 2023 (AFP)
Billions of dollars are flowing into a clutch of specialist companies hunting for treatments for some of the most debilitating ailments. And pioneering studies ...
A climate-orchestrated early human love story
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
Modern-day people carry in their cells a small quantity of DNA deriving from other human species, namely the Neanderthals and the elusive Denisovans. Back in 20...
Just 5000 steps can save your life
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
The study, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, found that walking at least 3967 steps a day started to reduce the risk of dying from any...
Indigenous groups call for bold steps at Amazon summit
Aug 07, 2023 (AFP)
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will host fellow regional leaders Tuesday and Wednesday for the first summit in 14 years of the eight-nation Amazo...
Workers less productiv, make more typos in afternoon and especially on Fridays
Aug 04, 2023 (SPX)
A recent interdisciplinary study at the Texas A and M School of Public Health used a novel method of data collection to show that employees really are less acti...
Indigenous chiefs demand action from Brazil govt on land rights
Jul 29, 2023 (AFP)
The Supreme Court's so-called "trial of the century" could remove the protected status of some Indigenous lands, opening them up to agribusiness and mining. In ...
New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages
Jul 28, 2023 (SPX)
To solve these problems, researchers from the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology assemble...
Vibrating vests translate music for deaf concertgoers
Jul 27, 2023 (AFP)
That's one way audio expert Patrick Hanlon programs haptic suits, designed to enable concertgoers who are deaf or hard of hearing to experience orchestral music...
Gullah Geechee, descendants of enslaved, fight to protect US island
Jul 20, 2023 (AFP)
But because of climate change -- and against the steady creep of housing developments -- his way of life on this outlying edge of the Atlantic seaboard is at ri...
How larger body sizes helped the colonizers of New Zealand
Jul 14, 2023 (SPX)
Results showed that people making the first voyages from Tahiti to New Zealand in sailing canoes would expend 3.3 to 4.8 times more energy on thermoregulation -...
How Tau tangles form in the brain
Jul 14, 2023 (SPX)
In the new study, the researchers discovered that one segment of the Tau protein is more flexible than expected, and this flexibility helps the fibrils take on ...
The sound of silence? Researchers prove people hear it
Jul 12, 2023 (SPX)
The findings address the debate of whether people can hear more than sounds, which has puzzled philosophers for centuries. "We typically think of our sense of h...
The Anthropocene heralds disaster. Can humans change course?
Jul 11, 2023 (AFP)
Pacific island nations are ground zero for climate change impacts and their plight embodies the sweeping environmental damage that is the hallmark of the era of...
Signs of the human era, from nuclear fallout to microplastics
Jul 10, 2023 (AFP)
Soaring greenhouse gases, ubiquitous microplastics, pervasive "forever chemicals", the global upheaval of animals, even old mobile phones and chicken bones -- a...
Welcome to the Anthropocene, Earth's new chapter
Jul 10, 2023 (AFP)
On Tuesday they will deliver the last of their findings -- the location of ground-zero for the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch borne of humanity's o...
Crowds 'stone the devil' in final hajj ritual
Jun 28, 2023 (AFP)
From dawn, hundreds of thousands of worshippers began pelting pebbles at three concrete monoliths representing Satan, the last major ritual of an event held in ...
Living near green space makes you 2.5 years younger: study
Jun 28, 2023 (AFP)
They also help slow biological aging, with people who have access to green spaces found to be on average 2.5 years biologically younger than those who do not, a...
Beatboxing orangutans and the evolution of speech
Jun 28, 2023 (SPX)
The study was conducted by Adriano Lameira and Madeleine Hardus, who dedicated their time to observe and analyze the vocalizing behaviors of orangutans in their...
Humans' evolutionary relatives butchered one another 1.45 million years ago
Jun 27, 2023 (SPX)
In a new study published in Scientific Reports, National Museum of Natural History paleoanthropologist Briana Pobiner and her co-authors describe nine cut marks...
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