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Mar 11, 2015 (UPI)

By studying the electromagnetic waves produced by the brain during sleep cycles, researchers say they can predict who will be more likely to experience insomnia...

Amid chaos of Libya, newly unearthed fossils give clues to our own evolution

Mar 11, 2015 (SPX)

Libya hasn't been terribly hospitable for scientific research lately. Since the 2011 toppling of Muammar Gaddafi, fighters tied to various tribes, regions and r...

Ancient tooth enamel undermines history of African cattle herding

Mar 10, 2015 (UPI)

When the Sahara desert began expanding 5,500 years ago, cattle herders were forced to migrate southward, following and the grasslands southward. But around 2,00...

Ancient fossils reveal diversity in the body structure of human ancestors

Mar 10, 2015 (SPX)

Recently released research on human evolution has revealed that species of early human ancestors had significant differences in facial features. Now, a Universi...

Stone tool in Oregon forces archaeologists to rethink settlemnent timeline

Mar 09, 2015 (UPI)

An ancient stone tool, carved from a piece of agate, was recently uncovered in the high desert of Oregon. Most significantly, the tool was unearthed from beneat...

Praising a child too much might make them a narcissist later in life

Mar 09, 2015 (UPI)

A new study from Ohio State University finds that praising a child too much can turn them into a narcissist. Researchers checked in with 565 children and their ...

Researchers map switches that shaped the evolution of the human brain

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

Thousands of genetic "dimmer" switches, regions of DNA known as regulatory elements, were turned up high during human evolution in the developing cerebral corte...

Earliest known fossil of the genus Homo dates to 2.8 to 2.75 million years ago

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

The earliest known record of the genus Homo - the human genus - represented by a lower jaw with teeth, recently found in the Afar region of Ethiopia, dates to b...

Discovery of jaw by ASU team sheds light on early Homo

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

A fossil lower jaw found in the Ledi-Geraru research area, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia, pushes back evidence for the human genus - Homo - to 2.8 million years...

When age matters

Mar 05, 2015 (SPX)

A partial human skull unearthed in 2008 in northern Israel may hold some clues as to when and where humans and Neanderthals might have interbred. The key to add...

New fossil pushes back Homo genus 400,000 years

Mar 04, 2015 (UPI)

The genus Homo, the lineage that spawned modern man, may be 400,000 years older than previously thought. That's the conclusion scientists have made after pullin...

Brain waves

Mar 04, 2015 (SPX)

Like musical sounds, different states of mind are defined by distinct, characteristic waveforms, recognizable frequencies and rhythms in the electrical field of...

Surprise, men are more narcissistic than women

Mar 04, 2015 (UPI)

Men love themselves more than women do. That's the takeaway from a new study by researchers at the University of Buffalo that claims men are consistently more n...

US cracks down on Chinese 'maternity tourism' in LA

Mar 04, 2015 (AFP)

US investigators launched dawn raids Tuesday on dozens of locations dotted around Los Angeles suspected of offering "maternity tourism" services for Chinese mot...

Mystery of the reverse-wired eyeball solved

Mar 02, 2015 (SPX)

From a practical standpoint, the wiring of the human eye - a product of our evolutionary baggage - doesn't make a lot of sense. In vertebrates, photoreceptors a...

Predicting human crowds with statistical physics

Mar 02, 2015 (SPX)

For the first time researchers have directly measured a general law of how pedestrians interact in a crowd. This law can be used to create realistic crowds in v...

How does the human brain tackle problems it did not evolve to solve?

Feb 27, 2015 (SPX)

Online dating, chatty smartphones, and social media played no role in the evolution of our ancestors, yet humans manage to deal with and even exploit these hall...

Bad weather delays US woman's execution

Feb 25, 2015 (AFP)

The execution Wednesday of a woman in the US state of Georgia was put off for several days because of a winter storm and "associated scheduling issues," authori...

Your eyelashes are fine as they are, it's math

Feb 25, 2015 (UPI)

Stop with the extensions. There's a reason your eyelashes are the length they are. A new study claims a mathematical formula adopted by evolutionary biology off...

Nanotech and genetic interference may tackle untreatable brain tumors

Feb 25, 2015 (SPX)

There are no effective available treatments for sufferers of Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive and devastating form of brain tumor. The disease...