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Light and manganese to discover the source of submerged Roman marble
Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)
The Roman Emperors used to spend their summers in the city of Baia, near Naples. With the passage of time, however, the majority of their luxury villas became i...
Changes in dwellings impact microbe exposure for human immune system
Feb 16, 2016 (SPX)
The shift from living in jungle huts to cities has dramatically changed human exposure to certain microbes, which could have implications for healthy immune fun...
Study: Link between sleep loss and social media usage
Feb 16, 2016 (UPI)
A new study from the University of California at Irvine found a link between social media usage and lack of sleep. The study didn't look at how much social medi...
Neanderthal DNA has subtle but significant impact on human traits
Feb 15, 2016 (SPX)
Since 2010 scientists have known that people of Eurasian origin have inherited anywhere from 1 to 4 percent of their DNA from Neanderthals. The discovery spawne...
Early human ancestor did not have the jaws of a nutcracker
Feb 10, 2016 (SPX)
South Africa's Australopithecus sediba, discovered in 2008 at the renowned archaeological site of Malapa in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, is agai...
Wirelessly supplying power to brain
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
Human and animal movements generate slight neural signals from their brain cells. These signals obtained using a neural interface are essential for realizing br...
DNA evidence uncovers major upheaval in Europe near end of last Ice Age
Feb 05, 2016 (SPX)
DNA evidence lifted from the ancient bones and teeth of people who lived in Europe from the Late Pleistocene to the early Holocene - spanning almost 30,000 year...
Humans evolved by sharing technology and culture
Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)
Blombos Cave in South Africa has given us vast knowledge about our early ancestors. In 2015, four open access articles, with research finds from Blombos as a st...
How environmental awareness helped the Bushmen to poison their game
Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)
Being responsible for providing their food straight from nature, the San tribes, also called Bushmen, have quickly found ways to evolve their hunting methods. I...
New research sharpens understanding of poison-arrow hunting in Africa
Feb 03, 2016 (SPX)
While academic awareness of African peoples' hunting with poison-tipped arrows extends back for centuries, knowledge of the ingenious practice has been scattere...
U.K. regulators give the go ahead to modify human embryos
Feb 01, 2016 (UPI)
Health regulators in the United Kingdom have granted permission for a team of scientists to genetically modify human embryos. The decisions comes just a few mon...
Long-term study shows impact of humans on land
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
Humans have been working the land to sustain our lives for millennia, cultivating plants or herding animals. This has created socio-ecological systems and lands...
Scientists decode brain signals nearly at speed of perception
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
Using electrodes implanted in the temporal lobes of awake patients, scientists have decoded brain signals at nearly the speed of perception. Further, analysis o...
Chinese scientists create 'autistic' monkeys
Jan 25, 2016 (AFP)
Scientists in China have engineered monkeys with a human autism gene and symptoms, in the hopes of unlocking a treatment for the debilitating but little-underst...
The indications of a new geological epoch marked by human impact are clear
Jan 25, 2016 (SPX)
The Anthropocene, which is regarded as having begun halfway through the 20th century, is marked by the expansion of new materials, such as aluminium, cement, pl...
Dartmouth study helps fill in gaps in our visual perception
Jan 22, 2016 (SPX)
A Dartmouth College study sheds light on how the brain fills in the gaps of how we visually perceive the world around us. Visual images and other raw sensory da...
Evidence of a prehistoric massacre extends the history of warfare
Jan 22, 2016 (SPX)
The fossilised bones of a group of prehistoric hunter-gatherers who were massacred around 10,000 years ago have been unearthed 30km west of Lake Turkana, Kenya,...
Neolithic tomb reveals community stayed together, even in death
Jan 22, 2016 (SPX)
A Neolithic Spanish burial site contains remains of a closely-related local community from 6000 years ago, according to a study published January 20th, 2015 in ...
Neolithic megalithic tomb examined for the first time
Jan 22, 2016 (SPX)
People of the Neolithic age around 6,000 years ago were closely connected both in life and death. This became evident in a detailed archaeological and anthropol...
Why are habits so hard to break
Jan 22, 2016 (SPX)
By now, you might have discovered that taming your sweet tooth as a New Year's resolution is harder than you think. New research by Duke University scientists s...
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