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Scientists throw lifeline to world's rarest primate

Oct 15, 2020 (AFP)

Decades of economic development, along with logging and deforestation, had reduced their habitat by more than half. What primary forest remained was also fragme...

Early human species likely driven to extinction by climate change

Oct 15, 2020 (UPI)

New research published Thursday in the journal One Earth suggests climate change likely drove the earliest human species to extinction. Until now, most hominin ...

Study: Marmoset monkeys self-domesticated, just like humans

Oct 15, 2020 (UPI)

According to scientists, it's not a coincidence that dogs are cuter than wolves and goats at the petting zoo appear cuddlier than their relatives in the wild. T...

Past tropical forest changes drove megafauna and hominin extinctions

Oct 08, 2020 (SPX)

"Southeast Asia is often overlooked in global discussions of megafauna extinctions," says Associate Professor Julien Louys who led the study, "but in fact it on...

Musical training boosts attention, working memory in children

Oct 08, 2020 (UPI)

For the study, published Thursday in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, researchers measured attention control and auditory encoding processes in the brains...

Study finds preserved brain material in Vesuvius victim

Oct 07, 2020 (AFP)

The preserved neuronal structures in vitrified or frozen form were discovered at the archaeological site of Herculaneum, an ancient Roman city engulfed under a ...

Neuroscientists discover a molecular mechanism that allows memories to form

Oct 07, 2020 (SPX)

This remodeling, which allows specific genes involved in storing memories to become more active, takes place in multiple stages spread out over several days. Ch...

Modern humans arrived in Western Europe 5,000 years earlier than thought

Sep 29, 2020 (UPI)

The discovery and analysis of ancient stone tools in a Portuguese cave -- detailed Monday in the journal PNAS -- suggests modern humans were along Europe's Atla...

Unveiling: Malaysian activist fights for hijab freedom

Sep 21, 2020 (AFP)

Her crime? Speaking out about her decision to stop wearing the hijab and criticising what she sees as institutional patriarchy in Islam. Most in Muslim-majority...

DNA data shows not all Vikings were Scandinavian

Sep 16, 2020 (UPI)

For the last six years, researchers in Britain and Denmark have been sequencing and analyzing DNA from more than 400 Viking skeletons recovered from dig sites a...

Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs

Sep 16, 2020 (SPX)

Now a team led by researchers at MIT and the University of Alcala in Spain has discovered evidence that hot springs may have existed in Olduvai Gorge around tha...

The oldest Neanderthal DNA of Central-Eastern Europe

Sep 09, 2020 (SPX)

This cultural tradition is named Micoquian, and spread across the frosty environment between eastern France, Poland and the Caucasus. Previous genetic analyses ...

Unfair playing fields, pay gaps drag down everyone's motivation

Sep 04, 2020 (UPI)

According to a new study, published Friday in the journal PLOS One, large disparities in compensation cause workers to feel less happy and, a result, it decreas...

Being a jerk won't get you a promotion, study says

Aug 31, 2020 (UPI)

For the study, published Monday in the journal PNAS, researchers tracked the career achievements of individuals who participated in a personality survey 14 year...

Each human gut hosts a unique community of viruses

Aug 24, 2020 (UPI)

The virome is the equivalent of the microbiome, and research published Monday in the journal Cell Host and Microbe suggests each human hosts a unique virome in ...

Study: Humans have been sleeping on beds for 200,000 years

Aug 14, 2020 (UPI)

Archaeologists have uncovered 200,000-year-old evidence of grass bedding inside South Africa's Border Cave. At the back of the cave, located in the KwaZulu-Nata...

Humans have been cremating the dead since at least 7,000 B.C.

Aug 13, 2020 (UPI)

An international team of researchers led by Fanny Bocquentin, an archaeologist and anthropologist with the French National Center for Scientific Research, uncov...

Primate voice boxes are bigger, evolve at a faster pace, study says

Aug 11, 2020 (UPI)

The finding suggests the diversification of the larynx was key to the development of vocal communication systems among primates, researchers say. The larynx ser...

To read, humans 'recycled' a brain region meant for recognizing objects

Aug 04, 2020 (UPI)

Previously, neuroscientists have hypothesized that humans repurposed, or "recycled," parts of the brain for reading. Now, they have proof. New research by scien...

Tackling risk factors could stop or slow 4 in 10 dementia cases: study

Jul 30, 2020 (AFP)

The number of people around the world living with dementia is expected to soar from around 50 million today to over 150 million by 2050. But experts in a commis...