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Ancient Aboriginal memory technique outperforms famous Greek method
May 18, 2021 (UPI)
For the Aboriginal people of Australia, there was no survival handbook. For centuries, Aboriginal groups accumulated knowledge of their natural world, using ora...
City of centenarians points the way for China's ageing future
May 12, 2021 (AFP)
But the spry great-grandfather is five years younger than the oldest member of the community in Rugao, an eastern city home to more than 500 centenarians and wh...
China posts slowest population growth in decades
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
The growth of 5.4 percent over the past decade was the slowest since the 1960s, and comes alongside a sharp drop in the number of working-age people. China rema...
Overthinking may be to blame for missed penalty kicks, study says
May 07, 2021 (UPI)
To find out why, scientists analyzed brain activity during both successful and failed penalty kicks. Their findings, published Friday in the journal Frontiers i...
More than 45,000 people volunteer to kill 12 bison in US national park
May 07, 2021 (AFP)
If their numbers grow too high, buffalo can damage park ecosystems such as vegetation and soil, NPS spokeswoman Kaitlyn Thomas told AFP. Thomas said there was g...
Most human origins stories are not compatible with known fossils
May 07, 2021 (SPX)
A new review out on May 7 in the journal Science looks at the major discoveries in hominin origins since Darwin's works and argues that fossil apes can inform u...
Africa's oldest human burial uncovered in Kenya
May 05, 2021 (UPI)
The human burial pit, dubbed Panga ya Saidi, is the oldest yet discovered in Africa. Ancient human burials are rare in Africa. The next oldest burial is South A...
Dunbar's number debunked: You can have more than 150 friends
May 05, 2021 (UPI)
According to a new study, published this week in the journal Biology Letters, suggests "Dunbar's number," which puts an upper limit on the human brain's capacit...
Circadian rhythm-controlling 'clock genes' could be tweaked to alter sleep
May 04, 2021 (UPI)
Scientists were able to identify the network of "clock genes," described Tuesday in the journal Applied Physics Reviews, using an advanced statistical model. Wi...
Prehistoric humans first traversed Australia by 'superhighways'
May 04, 2021 (SPX)
"One of the really big unanswered questions of prehistory is how Australia was populated in the distant past. Scholars have debated it for at least 150 years," ...
Model shows first Australians travelled on 'superhighways'
Apr 29, 2021 (UPI)
In the first study, scientists have created computer simulation models testing more than 125 billion possible paths of motion. Professor Corey Bradshaw, CABAH C...
Head shape, breed function play a part in dog-to-human communication
Apr 29, 2021 (UPI)
A Hungarian study suggests dog breeds with smaller faces, forward-set eyes and shorter noses are better at visual communication than others. The study, publishe...
A new perspective on the genomes of archaic humans
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
"When we're looking at archaic genomes, we don't have all the layers and marks that we usually have in samples from present-day individuals that help us interpr...
Planet of the Cave People
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
New research, published in Quaternary Science Reviews, led by a team of geologists and archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) and the Unive...
UBCO researcher re-evaluates estimate of the world's high-altitude population
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
Dr. Joshua Tremblay, a postdoctoral fellow in UBC Okanagan's School of Health and Exercise Sciences, has released updated population estimates of how many peopl...
Modern human brain originated in Africa around 1.7 million years ago
Apr 09, 2021 (SPX)
They already walked upright, but their brains were only about half the size of today's humans. These earliest Homo populations in Africa had primitive ape-like ...
S.Africa's gangster baboon comes to an untimely end
Apr 08, 2021 (AFP)
The alpha-male monkey found himself high on the unwanted list last year after he moved into the scenic Cape Town suburb of Smitswinkel Bay following a stint alo...
Big beats: Gorilla chest thumps 'signal' body size
Apr 08, 2021 (AFP)
Unlike the croak of a frog or the growl of a lion, the mountain gorilla's chest thumping is unusual because it is not a vocalisation but rather a form of physic...
South African rock shelter artifacts show early humans colonized inland areas
Mar 31, 2021 (UPI)
For generations, the rock shelter on Ga-Mohana Hill, positioned at the edge of South Africa's Kalahari Desert, has served as a spiritual site for local people. ...
Overhearing negative social remarks can inspire bias in children
Mar 24, 2021 (UPI)
In a new study, scientists contrived a situation in which children overheard negative comments about a new social group. The experiment -- described Wednesday i...
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