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Scientists extend telomeres to slow cell aging
Jan 27, 2015 (SPX)
Will extending telomeres lead to longer, healthier lives? Researchers have taken an important step toward answering this question by developing a new treatment ...
Early human ancestors used their hands like modern humans
Jan 26, 2015 (SPX)
New research suggests pre-Homo human ancestral species, such as Australopithecus africanus, used human-like hand postures much earlier than was previously thoug...
A mother's baby talk isn't easier to understand
Jan 23, 2015 (UPI)
Slow and sing-song, with a diminutive -y added onto plenty of the words (yummy, tummy, potty) -- these are a few of the characteristics of baby talk, the way so...
Humanity has exceeded 4 of 9 'planetary boundaries'
Jan 22, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of researchers says climate change, the loss of biosphere integrity, land-system change, and altered biogeochemical cycles like phosphorus...
ENIGMA consortium aims to crack brain's genetic code
Jan 22, 2015 (SPX)
In the largest collaborative study of the brain to date, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) led a globa...
Dog-human cooperation is based on social skills of wolves
Jan 22, 2015 (SPX)
Commonly accepted domestication hypotheses suggest: "Dogs have become tolerant and attentive as a result of humans actively selecting for these skills during th...
ORNL model explores location of future US population growth
Jan 22, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a population distribution model that provides unprecedented county-level ...
Planetary dashboard shows massive acceleration in human activity
Jan 20, 2015 (SPX)
Human activity, predominantly the global economic system, is now the prime driver of change in the Earth System (the sum of our planet's interacting physical, c...
Did the Anthropocene begin with the nuclear age?
Jan 20, 2015 (SPX)
An international group of scientists has proposed a start date for the dawn of the Anthropocene - a new chapter in the Earth's geological history. Humans are ha...
Success at work influenced by personality of your spouse
Jan 20, 2015 (UPI)
You can thank your wife for that new promotion. You can also blame your boyfriend for getting canned. That's according to a new research suggesting the personal...
First human conversations were probably about rocks
Jan 15, 2015 (UPI)
Sometime around two million years ago, a primitive proto-language was invented. And researchers say the first topic of conversation was almost certainly rock --...
Stress and social media: it's complicated
Jan 15, 2015 (AFP)
Using digital technologies does not directly cause stress, but social media can increase awareness of problems facing friends and family, and this stress is "co...
World's oldest butchering tools gave evolutionary edge to speech
Jan 15, 2015 (SPX)
Two and a half million years ago, our hominin ancestors in the African savanna crafted rocks into shards that could slice apart a dead gazelle, zebra or other g...
People conform to the norm, even if the norm is a computer
Jan 15, 2015 (SPX)
Often enough it is human nature to conform. This tendency makes us follow the lead of computers, even if the machines give us the wrong advice. This is the find...
Summer no sweat for Aussies but winter freeze fatal
Jan 13, 2015 (SPX)
Australians are more likely to die during unseasonably cold winters than hotter than average summers, QUT research has found. Across the country severe winters ...
No benefit from nutrient additions to water and energy drinks
Jan 13, 2015 (SPX)
A new study by researchers working at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University investigated the nutritional benefits of novel beverages (vitamin waters,...
'Belty' offers tech solution to weighty problem
Jan 08, 2015 (AFP)
Wearable tech can sometimes cut right to the chase: that's the case with "Belty," a smart belt unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show which aims to help peop...
Tech never sleeps in quest for better slumber
Jan 07, 2015 (AFP)
This new technology is staying up all night, so you don't have to. Among the new gadgetry on display at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas are a...
Sun may determine lifespan at birth: study
Jan 07, 2015 (AFP)
Could the Sun be your lucky -- or unlucky -- star? In an unusual study published Wednesday, Norwegian scientists said people born during periods of solar calm m...
Study: Brain scans could predict future behavior
Jan 07, 2015 (UPI)
Brain scans have been widely employed and remarkably useful in correlative and experimental research, helping scientists better understand the human brain struc...
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