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Kennewick Man: Solving a scientific controversy
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
An 8,500-year-old male skeleton discovered in 1996 in Columbia River in Washington State has been the focus of a bitter dispute between Native Americans and Ame...
Cell density remains constant as brain shrinks with age
Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)
New, ultra-high-field magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the brain by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago provide the most detailed images to d...
Stone tools from Jordan point to dawn of division of labor
Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)
Thousands of stone tools from the early Upper Paleolithic, unearthed from a cave in Jordan, reveal clues about how humans may have started organizing into more ...
Technology offers bird's-eye view of foreclosure affects on landscape
Jun 16, 2015 (SPX)
Contrary to popular belief, foreclosed properties do not always lead to unkempt lawns. University of Illinois researchers used remote sensing technology to obse...
Manuela's Madrid: a pretty, gritty city
Jun 15, 2015 (AFP)
Tourists love it, locals are proud of it, but beyond Madrid's tree-lined boulevards, pavement cafes and world-class museums lies a world of inequality that its ...
Chimpanzee flexibly use facial expressions and vocalizations
Jun 11, 2015 (SPX)
Chimpanzee may be able to use facial expressions and vocalizations flexibly, notably during physical contact play, according to a study published June 10, 2015 ...
Cooking up cognition
Jun 10, 2015 (SPX)
These days, cooking dinner requires no more thought than turning a knob on a stovetop, but for early humans the notion that - simply by applying heat or fire - ...
Out of Africa via Egypt
Jun 05, 2015 (SPX)
New research suggests that European and Asian (Eurasian) peoples originated when early Africans moved north - through the region that is now Egypt - to expand i...
World's last tribes on collision course with modern society
Jun 05, 2015 (AFP)
Threatened by disease and deforestation, the world's last isolated tribes in the Amazon are on a collision course with modern society like never before, experts...
Lethal wounds on skull may indicate 430,000-year-old murder
Jun 04, 2015 (SPX)
Lethal wounds identified on a human skull in the Sima de los Huesos, Spain, may indicate one of the first cases of murder in human history, some 430,000 years a...
New human ancestor species from Ethiopia lived alongside Lucy's species
Jun 04, 2015 (SPX)
A new relative joins "Lucy" on the human family tree. An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie of The Cleveland Museum of Natural...
Greenery on city rooftops can boost concentration levels
Jun 03, 2015 (SPX)
A University of Melbourne study shows that glancing at a grassy green roof for only 40 seconds markedly boosts concentration. The study, published in the Journa...
The Bronze Age Egtved Girl was not from Denmark
Jun 02, 2015 (SPX)
The Bronze Age Egtved Girl came from far away, as revealed by strontium isotope analyses of the girl's teeth. The analyses show that she was born and raised out...
Our bond with dogs may go back more than 27,000 years
May 29, 2015 (SPX)
Dogs' special relationship to humans may go back 27,000 to 40,000 years, according to genomic analysis of an ancient Taimyr wolf bone reported in the Cell Press...
To make new friends, simply smile
May 26, 2015 (UPI)
Researchers say the key to making new friends is all in the mouth. Show your shiny whites, and friendships are easier to come by. The reason smiling is key to n...
Scientists discover world's oldest stone tools
May 25, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long before the advent of modern humans, a...
Google aims to patent child toy that pays attention
May 23, 2015 (AFP)
Google has filed a patent for toys that pay attention to who is in a room and can interact with other media devices. The US Patent and Trademark Office shared d...
Why modern hunter-gatherers live with so few kin
May 21, 2015 (SPX)
Allowing both males and females in hunter-gatherer groups to choose their living companions reduces the number of family members in individual hunter-gatherer c...
'Natural' sounds improve mood and productivity
May 21, 2015 (SPX)
Playing natural sounds such as flowing water in offices could boosts worker moods and improve cognitive abilities in addition to providing speech privacy, accor...
Burmese long-tailed macaque stone-tool use catalogued
May 20, 2015 (SPX)
Eighty percent of a population of Burmese long-tailed macaques on an island in southern Thailand use stone and shell tools to crack open seafood, and do so usin...
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