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Memory capacity of brain is 10 times more than previously thought
Jan 21, 2016 (SPX)
Salk researchers and collaborators have achieved critical insight into the size of neural connections, putting the memory capacity of the brain far higher than ...
Harmful mutations have accumulated during early human migrations out of Africa
Jan 20, 2016 (SPX)
The researchers analysed genomes of individuals across four continents while former studies had only been carried out on two populations. The study has now been...
Chimp friendships are based on trust
Jan 15, 2016 (SPX)
It almost goes without saying that trust is a defining element of genuine human friendship. Now, a report in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on January 1...
Study: 920,000 Pygmies living in forests of Central Africa
Jan 15, 2016 (UPI)
For the first time, a comprehensive survey is offering a measured estimate of the Pygmy population in Central Africa. In addition to tallying the number of Pygm...
Brain monitoring takes a leap out of the lab
Jan 14, 2016 (SPX)
Bioengineers and cognitive scientists have developed the first portable, 64-channel wearable brain activity monitoring system that's comparable to state-of-the-...
Research suggests morality can survive without religion
Jan 13, 2016 (UPI)
Results from a longitudinal survey suggest morality hasn't declined with the decline of organized religion. The findings were published in the journal Politics ...
Britain's Pompeii: Bronze Age stilt houses found in English quarry
Jan 12, 2016 (UPI)
Archaeologists are hard at work at Must Farm in East Anglia, excavating what they say are the best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever discovered in Britain. Do...
Decision making in action
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
The brain prepares multiple available movements before deciding between them, according to findings from Queen's researchers Jason Gallivan and Randy Flanagan. ...
Mental synthesis experiment could teach us more about our imagination
Jan 06, 2016 (SPX)
While there is general consensus that the ability to imagine a never-before-seen object or concept is a unique and distinctive human trait, there is little that...
Why the real King Kong became extinct
Jan 04, 2016 (AFP)
The largest ape to roam Earth died out 100,000 years ago because it failed to tuck into savannah grass after climate change hit its preferred diet of forest fru...
Carnegie Mellon develops new method for analyzing synaptic density
Jan 01, 2016 (SPX)
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new approach to broadly survey learning-related changes in synapse properties. In a study published in t...
Genomes of early Irish settlers sequenced
Dec 28, 2015 (UPI)
Scientists in Ireland have sequenced the genomes of some of the island nation's earliest settlers. The sequenced genomes belong to a woman farmer who lived near...
Same growth rate for farming, non-farming prehistoric people
Dec 28, 2015 (SPX)
Prehistoric human populations of hunter-gatherers in a region of North America grew at the same rate as farming societies in Europe, according to a new radiocar...
How brain architecture leads to abstract thought
Dec 19, 2015 (SPX)
Using 20 years of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from tens of thousands of brain imaging experiments, computational neuroscientists Hava Sieg...
Scientists say face mites evolved alongside humans
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered a universal human truth about our bodies: they all, without exception, have mites. A landmark new study, led by scientists at Bowdoin...
Humans evolved to get better sleep in less time
Dec 16, 2015 (SPX)
Insomniacs take heart: Humans get by on significantly less sleep than our closest animal relatives. The secret, according to a new study, is that our sleep is m...
Chitchat and small talk could serve an evolutionary need to bond with others
Dec 16, 2015 (SPX)
We think of chitchat and small talk as the things people say to pass the time or kill an awkward silence. New research suggests, however, that these idle conver...
Research differentiates facial growth in Neanderthals and modern humans
Dec 10, 2015 (SPX)
An international research team, led by Rodrigo Lacruz, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology at New York Universi...
East Asia Pacific ageing faster than anywhere else in history: World Bank
Dec 09, 2015 (AFP)
The East Asia Pacific region is ageing at a faster rate than any other place in history, the World Bank warned Wednesday, a demographic shift likely to cramp pu...
Engraved schist slab may depict paleolithic campsites
Dec 08, 2015 (SPX)
A 13,000 year-old engraving uncovered in Spain may depict a hunter-gatherer campsite, according to a study published December 2, 2015 in PLOS ONE by Marcos Garc...
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