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The accidental discovery of how to stay young for longer
Dec 07, 2015 (SPX)
Living longer usually means a longer dotage, but wouldn't it be enticing to extend young adulthood instead? It's such an appealing prospect that scientists who ...
China cloning pioneer offers vision of brave new world
Dec 01, 2015 (AFP)
The Chinese scientist behind the world's biggest cloning factory has technology advanced enough to replicate humans, he told AFP, and is only holding off for fe...
Fossilized Homo erectus skull found in China
Nov 25, 2015 (UPI)
A group of scientists in eastern China's Anhui province recently unearthed a fossilized skull belonging to Homo erectus. The well preserved skull was found at t...
Clues emerge about the earliest known Americans
Nov 25, 2015 (SPX)
Stone tools, cooked animal and plant remains and fire pits found at the Monte Verde site in southern Chile provide greater interdisciplinary evidence that the e...
'Fourth strand' of European ancestry originated with hunter-gatherers isolated by Ice Age
Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)
The first sequencing of ancient genomes extracted from human remains that date back to the Late Upper Palaeolithic period over 13,000 years ago has revealed a p...
Human brains evolved to be more responsive to environmental influences
Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)
Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, but what is it about the human brain that makes us so different? Researchers at the George Washington University m...
Scientists fill in the gaps of human hunter-gatherer history
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
An international team led by scientists in Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and Cambridge University, has, for the first time, sequenced ancien...
CCNY researchers open 'Golden Window' in deep brain imaging
Nov 18, 2015 (SPX)
The neuroscience community is saluting the creation of a "Golden Window" for deep brain imaging by researchers at The City College of New York led by biomedical...
Environment and climate helped shape varied evolution of human languages
Nov 06, 2015 (SPX)
It's well known that gradual adaptation to the environment shaped the development of human bodies and brains, but recent work by an international group of resea...
Early proto-porcelain from China likely made from local materials
Nov 06, 2015 (SPX)
Early Chinese proto-porcelain was likely made from materials gathered locally, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Yu Li from ...
Predicting the human genome using evolution
Nov 02, 2015 (SPX)
To gain a clearer picture of health and disease, scientists have now provided an independent reference for all human variation by looking through the evolutiona...
Extinct ape species resets the scale on humans' ancestors
Nov 02, 2015 (SPX)
A team of researchers from the George Washington University (GW) and the Institut Catala de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) identified a new genus and spec...
Divisive religious beliefs humanity's biggest challenge: Grayling
Oct 30, 2015 (AFP)
British philosopher A.C. Grayling has penned more than 30 books tackling everything from happiness and friendship to humanism and freedom. In 2011, he founded t...
Research backs human role in extinction of mammoths, other mammals
Oct 28, 2015 (SPX)
Radiocarbon analysis of the decline and extinction of large mammals in the Americas lends support to the idea that hunting by humans led to the animals' demise ...
Study: Being an angry white male is key to being influential
Oct 26, 2015 (UPI)
In America, being an angry white man is, however unfortunately, a national pastime. Being an angry woman is less celebrated. This may sound hyperbolic, but a ne...
3-D map of the brain
Oct 26, 2015 (SPX)
The animal brain is so complex, it would take a supercomputer and vast amounts of data to create a detailed 3-D model of the billions of neurons that power it. ...
Study: Cadaver arms suggest human fists evolved for punching, too
Oct 22, 2015 (UPI)
Most researchers agree the human hand evolved for tool creation and manipulation, but some scientists say violence played a role too. To test the hypothesis tha...
Mathematically modeling the mind
Oct 21, 2015 (SPX)
Try to remember a phone number, and you're using what's called your sequential memory. This kind of memory, in which your mind processes a sequence of numbers, ...
Being rich in the Middle Ages led to an unhealthy life
Oct 21, 2015 (SPX)
In the Middle Ages only wealthy town people could afford to eat and drink from beautiful, colored glazed cups and plates. But the glazing was made of lead, whic...
Third ancient spearhead found on N.J. shore
Oct 17, 2015 (UPI)
Another spearhead believed to be handmade by Native Americans at least 10,000 years ago has been found along the New Jersey coastline. New Jersey native Audrey ...
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