ABOUT US

News About The Human Species

2,224 articles

Colombia's Indigenous nomads displaced by violence
Dec 16, 2021 (AFP)
Violence and illnesses inflicted first by settlers and later by armed groups forced the Nukak from their homes and into voluntary isolation decades ago, turning...
Researchers uncover earliest evidence for prehistoric humans transforming surroundings
Dec 15, 2021 (UPI)
Specifically, they identified a distinct footprint of Neanderthal activities near a large body of water in the region surrounding the Neumark-Nord site, a dig l...
Space-bound research a step toward feeding Earth's people
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
But it's the potential for the experiments in the flight hardware to which the Paw is attached that truly excites him. Saski's cotton regeneration research, ado...
Oldest documented grave of infant girl in Europe found
Dec 14, 2021 (UPI)
The 10,000-year-old burial site, in a cave in Liguria, Italy, includes over 60 pierced shell beads, four pendants and an eagle-owl talon alongside the human rem...
'Baby talk' helps infants learn words, study finds
Dec 10, 2021 (UPI)
Mimicking the sound of a smaller vocal tract clues babies into how words should sound coming out of their own mouths, the researchers said. "It seems to stimula...
The impact of drugs on gut microbes is greater than we thought
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
Researchers from the Bork group at EMBL Heidelberg, working together with a European consortium involving more than twenty European institutes, have now shown t...
A step toward living biotherapeutics
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
One of the obstacles to developing these "living biotherapeutics" is that many of the species that could be beneficial are harmed by oxygen, making it difficult...
Who were the first to permanently settle the Tibetan Plateau
Dec 09, 2021 (SPX)
The article, which was published online this month in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, suggests that a cross-look at archaeological and genetic evid...
Archaeologist claims human relative used controlled fire for light, cooking
Dec 06, 2021 (UPI)
The claims around Homo naledi haven't been published or peer-reviewed yet, but the discovery made by paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his team is drawing a lo...
Ancient human relative, Australopithecus sediba, 'walked like a human, but climbed like an ape'
Nov 24, 2021 (SPX)
The recovery of new lumbar vertebrae from the lower back of a single individual of the human relative, Australopithecus sediba, and portions of other vertebrae ...
Prehistoric mums may have cared for kids better than we thought
Nov 24, 2021 (SPX)
The findings shed new light on the history of our ancestors and debunk old assumptions that infant mortality rates were consistently high in ancient populations...
Taking it easy as you get older could be the wrong move
Nov 24, 2021 (SPX)
A team of evolutionary biologists and biomedical researchers from Harvard are taking a run at it (sometimes literally) in a new study published in PNAS. The wor...
The brain uses bodily signals to regulate fear
Nov 22, 2021 (SPX)
However, when the body freezes in response to fear, the heartbeat slows down leading to attenuated insular cortex activity. Processing these opposing signals he...
Poll: 81% of parents think their children are ungrateful
Nov 22, 2021 (UPI)
The poll, conducted for the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Michigan, noted that the holiday is a great opportunity to teach gratitude to children but warned t...
Study: Gender stereotypes affect girls' interest in STEM subjects as early as age 6
Nov 22, 2021 (UPI)
Researchers found that children start developing ideas that STEM courses are more fit for boys as young as six years old. "Gender-interest stereotypes that STEM...
Black, Hispanic cancer clinical trial enrollment starts to rise
Nov 22, 2021 (UPI)
Black and Hispanic patients were more likely now to participate in breast, lung and prostate cancer trials from 2015-2019 than they were to participate in trial...
Should all babies have their genome sequenced at birth?
Nov 19, 2021 (SPX)
But should every newborn baby have their whole genome sequenced? Experts debate the issue in The BMJ today. Extensive clinical evidence has shown that screening...
Chemical in human body odor triggers aggression in women, but not men
Nov 19, 2021 (UPI)
The chemical in question, called hexadecanal, or HEX, is also emitted by infants when under stress, the researchers said. This may be why the odor it produces l...
Perceptual links between sound and shape may unlock origins of spoken words
Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)
Language scientists have discovered that this effect exists independently of the language that a person speaks or the writing system that they use, and it could...
Toddlers regulate emotions better after watching adults calm themselves
Nov 17, 2021 (UPI)
They also tend to increase their use of "distraction" as a mechanism to calm themselves in stressful situations after they watched others use the same approach,...
Buy Advertising About Us Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.