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China says US withdrawal from UNESCO not behaviour of 'responsible country'
Jul 23, 2025 (AFP)
"This is not the action that a responsible major country should take," foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said. "China has always firmly supported the work o...
Hong Kong leader backs same-sex couples' rights bill
Jul 15, 2025 (AFP)
Lee's administration proposed legislation this month to recognise some rights for same-sex partners whose marriages are registered abroad. Despite LGBTQ activis...
Finns flock to 'shepherd weeks' to disconnect on holiday
Jul 10, 2025 (AFP)
Petri Stenberg is enjoying a "shepherd week" together with his wife Oona and their two children Fia, age 2, and Hugo, 4, on an old farm on an island in the Isoj...
Beyond male dominance in primates new study redefines gender power roles
Jul 08, 2025 (SPX)
The comprehensive analysis uncovered that nearly half of all aggressive interactions within social primate groups occur between males and females. This high rat...
Deforestation in S.Leone national park threatens chimps, humans alike
Jun 17, 2025 (AFP)
The young apes, who arrived at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary when they were just three months old, listened with wide eyes as other chimps screeched and pla...
Human brain reveals hidden action cues AI still fails to grasp
Jun 17, 2025 (SPX)
Led by PhD candidate Clemens Bartnik and computational neuroscientist Iris Groen, the research team examined how people evaluate potential movements in differen...
Light travels through entire human head in breakthrough for optical brain imaging
Jun 17, 2025 (SPX)
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), a technique that measures blood absorption of light to infer brain activity, is prized for being low-cost and por...
If people stopped having babies, how long would it be before humans were all gone?
Jun 12, 2025 (SPX)
Even if all births were to suddenly cease, this decline would start slowly. Eventually there would not be enough young people coming of age to do essential work...
Overlooked cells might explain the human brain's huge storage capacity
May 28, 2025 (SPX)
The brain also contains billions of astrocytes - star-shaped cells with many long extensions that allow them to interact with millions of neurons. Although they...
Orangutan Communication Reveals Surprising Complexity Once Thought Uniquely Human
May 19, 2025 (SPX)
The study, published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, focused on the alarm calls of Sumatran orangutans. It revealed that these primates can a...
Ancient Hands Reveal Diverse Gripping Abilities in Early Hominins
May 15, 2025 (SPX)
The study examined two nearly complete hand skeletons from South Africa, including the hand of Australopithecus sediba, discovered in 2010 at the Malapa site an...
Chimpanzees Use Medicinal Plants for Wound Care and Hygiene in Ugandan Forests
May 14, 2025 (SPX)
Research led by Dr. Elodie Freymann from the University of Oxford, published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, focused on two chimpanzee communities - Sons...
Hormone cycles shape the structure and function of key memory regions in the brain
May 14, 2025 (SPX)
"We've known for some time that ovarian hormones, and particularly estradiol - a type of estrogen - have important consequences for neurons' structure and funct...
Orangutan Mothers Show Individual Variation in Parenting Styles
May 14, 2025 (SPX)
"Sumatran orangutan mothers are not all the same when it comes to parenting behaviors," said Revathe Thillaikumar, a postdoctoral researcher at MPI-AB and first...
Aztec Obsidian Study Uncovers Complex Ancient Trade Networks
May 13, 2025 (SPX)
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, analyzed 788 obsidian artifacts from the Templo Mayor, revealing that while the Mex...
Versatile Call Combinations in Chimpanzees May Shed Light on the Evolution of Human Language
May 12, 2025 (SPX)
While this open-ended, combinatorial nature is central to human communication, understanding where this capacity originated remains a fundamental scientific que...
'Toxic beauty': Rise of 'looksmaxxing' influencers
Apr 23, 2025 (AFP)
Looksmaxxing influencers -- part of an online ecosystem dubbed the "manosphere" -- have surged in popularity across social media, capitalizing on the insecuriti...
Sunscreen and shelter strategies may have shielded early humans from solar radiation
Apr 22, 2025 (SPX)
This study, published in Science Advances and spearheaded by experts in engineering and anthropology, suggests that these adaptations may have played a pivotal ...
A visual pathway in the brain may do more than recognize objects
Apr 16, 2025 (SPX)
Consistent with this, in the past decade, MIT scientists have found that when computational models of the anatomy of the ventral stream are optimized to solve t...
Primate mothers react differently to infant loss than humans
Apr 10, 2025 (SPX)
Published in Biology Letters, the research reveals that bereaved macaque mothers rest significantly less in the first two weeks following their infant's death c...
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