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Study: Potentially no limit to human lifespan
Jun 29, 2017 (UPI)
Biologists Bryan G. Hughes and Siegfried Hekimi at Canada's McGill University studied the longest-living people from the U.S., Britain, France and Japan since 1...
Cave painting sites may have been chosen for their acoustics, scientists argue
Jun 29, 2017 (UPI)
Such a connection would suggest cave paintings held a religious or spiritual significance and were the site of rituals featuring chants and music. Scientists fo...
New research could help humans see what nature hides
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
UT Austin researchers investigated the three main background properties that affect the ability to see objects: the luminance or brightness, the contrast (the v...
Humans lived year round in the Andean highlands 7,000 years ago
Jun 28, 2017 (UPI)
Excavations at archaeological sites in southern Peru suggest early hunter-gatherers began occupying Andean settlements some 9,000 years ago. But researchers hav...
Beyond bananas: 'Mind reading' technology decodes complex thoughts
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
The findings indicate that the mind's building blocks for constructing complex thoughts are formed by the brain's various sub-systems and are not word-based. Pu...
The neural relationship between light and sleep
Jun 27, 2017 (SPX)
But while a great deal is known about how light affects circadian rhythms, little is known about the direct effects of light on sleep: Why do we tend to wake up...
New research suggests problematic memories could be deleted
Jun 22, 2017 (UPI)
The feat, detailed in the journal Current Biology, suggests problematic memories -- like those responsible for PSTD and anxiety -- in the human brain could be e...
Skull shape analysis highlights migratory movements in Ancient Rome
Jun 21, 2017 (UPI)
Scientists at North Carolina State University and California State University, Sacramento digitized and analyzed the shapes of dozens of human skulls collected ...
World population to reach 9.8 bln in 2050, UN says
Jun 21, 2017 (AFP)
Nigeria will overtake the United States by 2050 to become the third most populous country in the world, according to the figures by the UN Department of Economi...
Chinese gays hear wedding bells as Taiwan move fuels hope
Jun 17, 2017 (AFP)
China does not recognise same-sex unions but that's not stopping couples like Ren and Zhu from tying the knot in informal ceremonies as the country's sexual min...
Blue Brain team discovers a multi-dimensional universe in brain networks
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
Using algebraic topology in a way that it has never been used before in neuroscience, a team from the Blue Brain Project has uncovered a universe of multi-dimen...
Czech cave dig reveals details of Neanderthal-human transition
Jun 15, 2017 (UPI)
Researchers say the wealth of artifacts has provided insights into the transition from Neanderthals to modern humans. In addition to thousands of animal bones, ...
Too much brain activity may contribute to memory, attention impairments
Jun 15, 2017 (UPI)
Too much neural activity can overwhelm the brain. The neurotransmitter Gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA, play an important role in inhibiting excess neural acti...
In tense times, top conductor creates UN of orchestras
Jun 15, 2017 (AFP)
Closing his tenure in one of classical music's most prestigious positions, Gilbert is planning a next chapter by creating a sort of United Nations of orchestras...
Dating expert ages oldest modern human
Jun 14, 2017 (SPX)
Professor Rainer Grun, director of the leading Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE), was among an international research team that dated fossi...
The first of our kind
Jun 14, 2017 (SPX)
The finds are dated to about 300 thousand years ago and represent the oldest securely dated fossil evidence of our own species. This date is 100 thousand years ...
Removal of aging cells could extend human life
Jun 14, 2017 (SPX)
This breakthrough research has been led by Dr. Chaekyu Kim of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who is now at UNIST, and Dr. Ok Hee Jeon of the J...
Obesity 'epidemic' affects one in 10 worldwide
Jun 12, 2017 (AFP)
Obesity numbers have more than doubled in 73 countries and surged elsewhere around the world since the launch in 1980 of the study published in the New England ...
How the brain recognizes what the eye sees
Jun 12, 2017 (SPX)
Now, Salk Institute researchers have analyzed how neurons in a critical part of the brain, called V2, respond to natural scenes, providing a better understandin...
Living long and living well: Is it possible to do both
Jun 07, 2017 (SPX)
Developing metrics to help answer these questions and to understand the tradeoffs between lifespan and health span is the subject of a recent paper by MDI Biolo...
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