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What the Jetsons got right and wrong about the future of work
Apr 11, 2023 (SPX)
The Jetsons was created by the Hanna-Barbara animation studio in Los Angeles as a futuristic version of the studio's hit series The Flintstones, the first carto...
Amazon Indigenous lands prevent disease, save billions: study
Apr 06, 2023 (AFP)
The decade-long study analyzed the health impacts of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon, which release huge amounts of particles into the atmosphere that can ...
Spatial computing enables flexible working memory
Mar 31, 2023 (SPX)
The research, led by scientists at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, the Karolinksa Institute, and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stock...
Global population could peak below 9 billion in 2050s
Mar 28, 2023 (SPX)
The new projections by researchers from the Earth4All initiative for the Global Challenges Foundation is published as a working paper People and Planet, 21st Ce...
Japanese immigrant's legacy paints Mexico City violet
Mar 25, 2023 (AFP)
In Mexico, however, it is not cherry trees but blooming jacarandas that turn the capital into a sea of violet. Admiring the blossoms has become an annual event ...
Time capsules: Mauritania's precious Chinguetti manuscripts
Mar 22, 2023 (AFP)
"What would the world be without poetry?" he asked, using cotton gloves to handle the thin paper document, written in an ink concocted from charcoal and gum Ara...
Vast cemetery in Iraq echoes 14 centuries of life and death
Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)
Flowers, photographs and religious banners honour many of the millions buried in the ochre desert sands of the "Valley of Peace" -- victims of war and disease, ...
In Old Cairo, residents reconnect with their heritage
Feb 19, 2023 (AFP)
In one of the world's oldest Islamic cities, communities were becoming increasingly separated from the centuries-old buildings they lived alongside -- prompting...
Back to the time of the first Homo Sapiens with a futuristic clock, the new Radiocarbon 3.0
Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)
These important findings - published in the journal PLOS ONE - are the result of extensive research work, coordinated by Professor Sahra Talamo, director of the...
Iraq dig uncovers 5,000 year old pub restaurant
Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)
The US-Italian team made the find in the ruins of ancient Lagash, northeast of the modern city of Nasiriyah, which was already known to have been one of the fir...
People can tell whether they like a song within seconds, study finds
Feb 09, 2023 (UPI)
The researchers had participants listen to over 250 songs, as well as excerpts that lasted 5, 10 or 15 seconds. They found that the length of a clip did not alt...
Changing climate conditions likely facilitated human migrations to the Americas
Feb 08, 2023 (SPX)
The findings align with a growing body of evidence that the most likely path for the first Americans was a Pacific coastal route that was in use before the larg...
Earliest evidence found of Neanderthals killing elephants for food
Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)
Some 125,000 years ago, Neanderthals deliberately hunted down and slaughtered European straight-tusked elephants, whose meat and fatty tissue represented an imp...
The chemistry of mummification - Traces of a global network
Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)
In collaboration with the National Research Center in Cairo, a team of researchers from LMU Munich and the University of Tubingen has analyzed chemical residues...
Superhighways of first Australians reveals a 10,000-year journey through the continent
Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)
New, sophisticated models combined recent improvements in demography and models of wayfinding based on geographic inference to show the scale of the challenges ...
Brazilian army deploys to protect Indigenous Yanomami
Feb 01, 2023 (AFP)
The air force said it was deploying fighter jets and surveillance planes to wrest back control of the airspace over the remote Amazon rainforest territory and h...
China's Sichuan to scrap three-child limit as birth rates drop
Jan 30, 2023 (AFP)
China's population shrank last year for the first time in more than six decades, official data released this month showed, and the nation of 1.4 billion has see...
First primate relatives discovered in the high Arctic from around 52 million years ago
Jan 26, 2023 (SPX)
The Eocene Epoch was a time of intense global warming, providing a crucial case study for examining how ecosystems react to changing climates. Fossils from Elle...
Brazil police open investigation of Indigenous 'genocide'
Jan 24, 2023 (AFP)
The announcement came after a government report revealed Saturday that 99 Yanomami children living on Brazil's largest Indigenous reservation -- all under the a...
AIR launches high-resolution sensing and electrical stimulation neural activity study
Jan 23, 2023 (SPX)
The Project aims to develop high-resolution multi-channel implantable neural microelectrode arrays and smart neural chips for neural information detection and c...
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