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Study: Apes may not be that far away from talking

Aug 13, 2015 (UPI)

Ever since the 1940s, when a couple attempting to raise a pair of chimpanzees like children failed to impart the ability of speech, scientists have assumed lang...

World population to top 11 billion by end of the century

Aug 10, 2015 (UPI)

By 2100, demographers and statisticians at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs expect the world's population to top 11.2 billion. Today...

Wild bonobos show similarities to development of human speech

Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)

From an early age, human infants are able to produce vocalisations in a wide range of emotional states and situations - an ability felt to be one of the factors...

Body size increase did not play a role in the origins of Homo genus

Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)

A new analysis of early hominin body size evolution led by a George Washington University professor suggests that the earliest members of the Homo genus (which ...

Take a trip through the brain

Aug 01, 2015 (SPX)

A new imaging tool developed by Boston scientists could do for the brain what the telescope did for space exploration. In the first demonstration of how the tec...

An all-natural sunscreen derived from algae

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

For consumers searching for just the right sunblock this summer, the options can be overwhelming. But scientists are now turning to the natural sunscreen of alg...

Swipe right: dating apps change US courtship rituals

Jul 29, 2015 (AFP)

From adulterous middle-aged marrieds to millennials who say only freaks chat up people in bars, millions of Americans are finding love online as technology corn...

It don't mean a thing if the brain ain't got that swing

Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)

Like Duke Ellington's 1931 jazz standard, the human brain improvises while its rhythm section keeps up a steady beat. But when it comes to taking on intellectua...

For dating apps in Asia, love by numbers or chaperone

Jul 29, 2015 (AFP)

Move over Tinder -- a crop of dating apps in smartphone-addicted Asia is offering to recruit friends for group dates or send along a chaperone to steer the cour...

4-year-olds don't care much for crummy prizes

Jul 27, 2015 (UPI)

Preschoolers don't care how hard they worked to win a prize. If it's a lame reward, it's likely to go in the garbage. But with age, research shows, kids learn t...

Evidence of cultural diversification between neighboring chimp communities

Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)

For centuries it has been thought that culture is what distinguishes humans from other animals, but over the past decade this idea has been repeatedly called in...

Isolated indigenous group reaches out in Peru's Amazon

Jul 27, 2015 (AFP)

Members of an isolated indigenous group made contact over the weekend with villagers in Peru's Amazon basin seeking food and supplies, a Lima newspaper reported...

Researchers to discover first evidence of farming in Mideast

Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)

Until now, researchers believed farming was "invented" some 12,000 years ago in the Cradle of Civilization - Iraq, the Levant, parts of Turkey and Iran - an are...

Genetic studies link indigenous peoples in the Amazon and Australasia

Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)

Native Americans living in the Amazon bear an unexpected genetic connection to indigenous people in Australasia, suggesting a previously unknown wave of migrati...

Genome analysis pins down arrival and spread of first Americans

Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)

The original Americans came from Siberia in a single wave no more than 23,000 years ago, at the height of the last Ice Age, and apparently hung out in the north...

Archaeologists reexplore move from hunting, gathering to farming

Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)

One of the enduring mysteries of the human experience is how and why humans moved from hunting and gathering to farming. From their beginnings humans, like othe...

The population history of Native Americans

Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)

There is archaeological evidence of modern humans in the Americas by ca. 15 thousand years ago (KYA). However, there is still debate over exactly when and how m...

Study: Subject experts have tendency to overclaim false information

Jul 20, 2015 (UPI)

Self-proclaimed subject matter experts are more likely to fall victim to the illusion of knowledge. According to new research, experts are likely to "overclaim"...

Study: Poverty does lasting damage to a child's brain

Jul 20, 2015 (UPI)

The most long-lasting scars of childhood poverty may not be visible to the naked eye. New research suggests they are buried deep in the brain tissue of a child....

Continued destruction of Earth's plant life places humans in jeopardy

Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)

Unless humans slow the destruction of Earth's declining supply of plant life, civilization like it is now may become completely unsustainable, according to a pa...