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Apr 05, 2015 (SPX)

Mammals are good at figuring out which direction a sound is coming from, whether it's a rabbit with a predator breathing down its neck or a baby crying for its ...

'Little Foot' 3.67 million years old

Apr 05, 2015 (SPX)

A skeleton named Little Foot is among the oldest hominid skeletons ever dated at 3.67 million years old, according to an advanced dating method. Little Foot is ...

Researchers improve efficiency of human walking

Apr 02, 2015 (SPX)

Humans have evolved to be incredibly efficient at walking. In fact, simulations of human locomotion show that walking on level ground and at a steady speed shou...

Earliest humans had diverse range of body types, just as we do today

Mar 31, 2015 (SPX)

One of the dominant theories of our evolution is that our genus, Homo, evolved from small-bodied early humans to become the taller, heavier and longer legged Ho...

Did monkey business shape human society?

Mar 27, 2015 (UPI)

In the jungles of Sulawesi, an Indonesian island, primatologist Maura Tyrrell crouches to study the behavior of a crested black macaque, an endangered Old World...

Carbon nanotube fibers make superior links to brain

Mar 27, 2015 (SPX)

Carbon nanotube fibers invented at Rice University may provide the best way to communicate directly with the brain. The fibers have proven superior to metal ele...

Did volcanic cataclysm trigger final demise of the Neanderthals

Mar 26, 2015 (SPX)

The Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) eruption in Italy 40,000 years ago was one of the largest volcanic cataclysms in Europe and injected a significant amount of sulfu...

Autistic and non-autistic brain differences isolated for first time

Mar 26, 2015 (SPX)

The functional differences between autistic and non-autistic brains have been isolated for the first time, following the development of a new methodology for an...

Human parasites found in medieval cesspit reveal ancient links

Mar 23, 2015 (SPX)

A new analysis of a medieval cesspit in the Christian quarter of the old city of Jerusalem has revealed the presence of a number of ancient parasite eggs, provi...

Men's preference for certain body types has evolutionary roots

Mar 23, 2015 (SPX)

A psychology study from The University of Texas at Austin sheds new light on today's standards of beauty, attributing modern men's preferences for women with a ...

Atlas of thoughts

Mar 23, 2015 (SPX)

Are humans born with the ability to solve problems or is it something we learn along the way? A research group at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhu...

Scientist hopes vest will broaden range of human senses

Mar 18, 2015 (AFP)

Neuroscientist David Eagleman hopes that one day a special piece of clothing he has designed will let the deaf "hear" and allow wearers to sense what is happeni...

Wealth and power may have played a stronger role than 'survival of the fittest'

Mar 18, 2015 (SPX)

The DNA you inherit from your parents contributes to the physical make-up of your body - whether you have blue eyes or brown, black hair or red, or are male or ...

Chimpanzees will travel for preferred foods, innovate solutions

Mar 18, 2015 (SPX)

Just as humans will travel to their favorite restaurant, chimpanzees will travel a farther distance for preferred food sources in non-wild habitats, according t...

Neandertals modified white-tailed eagle claws 130,000 years ago

Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)

Krapina Neandertals may have manipulated white-tailed eagle talons to make jewelry 130,000 years ago, before the appearance of modern human in Europe, according...

Saharan 'carpet of tools' is earliest known man-made landscape

Mar 16, 2015 (SPX)

A new intensive survey of the Messak Settafet escarpment, a massive outcrop of sandstone in the middle of the Saharan desert, has shown that stone tools occur "...

Early humans took to the rainforests sooner than previously thought

Mar 13, 2015 (UPI)

A new study suggests early humans began populating the rainforest as early as 20,000 years ago on the island of Sri Lanka. Previously, the earliest evidence of ...

Epoch-defining study pinpoints when humans came to dominate planet Earth

Mar 13, 2015 (SPX)

The human-dominated geological epoch known as the Anthropocene probably began around the year 1610, with an unusual drop in atmospheric carbon dioxide and the i...

Magnetic brain stimulation

Mar 13, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to stimulate brain tissue using external magnetic fields and injected magnetic nanoparticles - a technique allowing d...

New genetic evidence resolves origins of modern Japanese

Mar 12, 2015 (SPX)

Was there a single migration event or gradual mixing of cultures that gave rise to modern Japanese? According to current theory, about 2,000-3,000 years ago, tw...