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Great apes and ravens plan without thinking
Dec 03, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers have previously suggested that ravens can plan better than four-year-old children. The new study "What can associative learning do for planning?" re...
Breakthroughs Inspire Hope for Treating Intractable Mood Disorders
Dec 03, 2018 (SPX)
The premise of SUBNETS is that brain function and dysfunction - rather than being relegated to distinct anatomical regions of the brain - play out across distri...
All of Africa served as the cradle of humankind
Nov 30, 2018 (UPI)
Archaeologists in Spain recently recovered ancient stone artifacts in Algeria, the oldest evidence of a human presence in North Africa. Using paleomagnetism, or...
Peru's untouched indigenous tribes facing growing threats
Nov 30, 2018 (AFP)
But their way of life, and indeed their lives, are under threat from drug trafficking, illegal deforestation and mineral exploitation. Peru, half of which is co...
Stone tools suggest humans were in Arabia as recently as 190,000 years ago
Nov 29, 2018 (UPI)
Stone hand axes are the trademark of Acheulean technology, the longest cultural-technological tradition in human evolutionary history. The new findings -- annou...
China halts activities of baby gene-editing scientist
Nov 29, 2018 (AFP)
China's National Health Commission has ordered an investigation into He Jiankui's experiment, which was condemned by the scientific community in China and abroa...
9,000-year-old stone mask excavated in Israel's Hebron Hills
Nov 28, 2018 (UPI)
"Stone masks are linked to the agricultural revolution," Omry Barzilai, head of the archaeological research department at the Israel Antiquities Authority, said...
Gene-edited baby trial 'paused': China scientist
Nov 28, 2018 (AFP)
He Jiankui defended his work in front of a packed Hong Kong biomedical conference, saying he had successfully altered the DNA of twin girls born to an HIV-posit...
Hacking the aging code: Big data to the rescue
Nov 28, 2018 (SPX)
New article published in Frontiers in Genetics by MIPT scientist Peter Fedichev describes a strategy for systematic development of novel anti-aging therapeutics...
Genetics summit holds breath for Chinese baby-editing details
Nov 28, 2018 (AFP)
Chinese scientist He Jiankui is due to speak Wednesday at a summit of biomedical experts in Hong Kong, just days after publishing claims to have created the wor...
Prehistoric cave art reveals ancient use of complex astronomy
Nov 28, 2018 (SPX)
The artworks, at sites across Europe, are not simply depictions of wild animals, as was previously thought. Instead, the animal symbols represent star constella...
DNA analysis suggests people migrated from Siberia to Finland 3,500 years ago
Nov 27, 2018 (UPI)
The research showed Siberian ancestry migrated from Russia's Kola Peninsula to Finland several thousand years ago. Scientists confirmed the link by comparing DN...
Chinese hospital denies approving gene-edited babies experiment
Nov 27, 2018 (AFP)
Shenzhen Harmonicare Women and Children's Hospital said in a statement that it suspected the signature on a document approving the experiment, specifically its ...
China scientist claims world's first gene-edited babies
Nov 26, 2018 (AFP)
Chinese university professor He Jiankui posted a video on YouTube saying that the twin girls, born a few weeks ago, had had their DNA altered to prevent them fr...
China orders probe into scientist claims of first gene-edited babies
Nov 26, 2018 (AFP)
A video posted on YouTube by university professor He Jiankui said that the twin girls, born a few weeks ago, had had their DNA altered to prevent them from cont...
US missionary's body could be lost in battle to preserve isolated tribe
Nov 24, 2018 (AFP)
The menace to the Sentinelese from Chau's one-man invasion is such that tribal rights specialists say no murder charges will ever be laid and Chau's body will h...
Paradise regained? Experts call for European approach to US housing
Nov 21, 2018 (AFP)
But experts warn that with megafires the new normal in a warming global climate, housing in the western United States is going to need a revolutionary rethink a...
The location of neurons within the cortex affects how they process information
Nov 21, 2018 (UPI)
Until now, neuroscientists agreed the microcircuits of neurons found in the brain's outermost layer, the cortex, functioned and interacted in a standardized way...
The 'Swiss Army knife of prehistoric tools' found in Asia, suggests homegrown technology
Nov 20, 2018 (SPX)
A study by an international team of researchers, including from the University of Washington, determines that carved stone tools, also known as Levallois cores,...
Late Miocene ape upper jaw discovered in western India
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
Apes, or hominoids, are a group of primates from Africa and Southeast Asia that includes the gibbons and the great apes: chimps, orangutans, gorillas, and human...
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