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Social grooming can promote the spread of disease among monkeys
May 19, 2015 (UPI)
The system of social grooming among spider monkeys isn't perfect. Like many other biological strategies, there are both costs and benefits. The benefits are sel...
Microsoft: Humans have shorter attention span than a goldfish
May 15, 2015 (UPI)
A small study by researchers at Microsoft has found the human attention span is shortening. At just 8 seconds, they say it is now shorter than the attention spa...
A new chapter in Earth history
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
An international group of scientists has proposed that fallout from hundreds of nuclear weapons tests in the late 1940s to early 1960s could be used to mark the...
Can skull shape determine what food was on prehistoric plates
May 05, 2015 (SPX)
When paleontologists put together a life history for a long-extinct animal, it's common to infer the foods it ate by looking at modern animals with similar skul...
Study finds ancient clam beaches not so natural
May 03, 2015 (SPX)
Casting a large interdisciplinary research net has helped Simon Fraser University archaeologist Dana Lepofsky and 10 collaborators dig deeper into their finding...
Human weapons may not have caused the demise of the Neanderthals
May 01, 2015 (SPX)
The demise of Neanderthals may have nothing to do with innovative hunting weapons carried by humans from west Asia, according to a new study published in the Jo...
DARPA Aims to Accelerate Memory Function for Skill Learning
Apr 30, 2015 (SPX)
A new DARPA program aims to investigate the role of neural "replay" in the formation and recall of memory, with the goal of helping individuals better remember ...
Insight into how brain makes memories
Apr 30, 2015 (SPX)
Every time you make a memory, somewhere in your brain a tiny filament reaches out from one neuron and forms an electrochemical connection to a neighboring neuro...
Large heads, narrow pelvises and difficult childbirth in humans
Apr 24, 2015 (SPX)
The size of the neonatal skull is large relative to the dimensions of the birth canal in the female pelvis. This is the reason why childbirth is slower and more...
Technology can transfer human emotions to your palm through air
Apr 23, 2015 (SPX)
Human emotion can be transferred by technology that stimulates different parts of the hand without making physical contact with your body, a University of Susse...
Scientists urge moratorium after Chinese 'edit' human embryos
Apr 23, 2015 (AFP)
Global scientists on Thursday renewed calls to halt controversial research to genetically edit human embryos after a Chinese team published details of a breakth...
MIT study links family income, test scores, brain anatomy
Apr 17, 2015 (UPI)
It goes without saying that poor children aren't born less intelligent. But a long list of studies show children in low-income households consistently rank belo...
Neanderthals manipulated bodies shortly after death
Apr 16, 2015 (SPX)
Neanderthals from the French region of Poitou-Charentes cut, beat and fractured the bones of their recently deceased companions, as revealed by the fossil remai...
Complex cognition shaped the Stone Age hand axe
Apr 16, 2015 (SPX)
The ability to make a Lower Paleolithic hand axe depends on complex cognitive control by the prefrontal cortex, including the "central executive" function of wo...
World's oldest tools found near Africa's Lake Turkana
Apr 16, 2015 (UPI)
A group of archaeologists say they've uncovered the world's oldest tools. At 3.3 million years old, the newly unearthed tools predate the evolution of modern hu...
Why we have chins
Apr 15, 2015 (SPX)
Look at a primate or a Neanderthal skull and compare it with a modern human's. Notice anything missing? We have one feature that primates, Neanderthals, archaic...
Mountain gorillas enter the genomic age
Apr 15, 2015 (SPX)
The first project to sequence whole genomes from mountain gorillas has given scientists and conservationists new insight into the impact of population decline o...
Ancient human fossils from Laos reveal early diversity
Apr 10, 2015 (SPX)
An ancient human skull and a jawbone found a few meters away in a cave in northern Laos add to the evidence that early modern humans were physically quite diver...
The rest of the brain gets in the way
Apr 09, 2015 (SPX)
Why do some people learn a new skill right away, while others only gradually improve? Whatever else may be different about their lives, something must be happen...
If your kid hates school, it just may be their genes
Apr 08, 2015 (UPI)
Some kids take naturally to the process of formal education. Others, not so much. Bad attitudes and poor teachers may often take the blame, but as a new study p...
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