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Humans, sparrows make sense of sounds in similar ways
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
The song of the swamp sparrow -- a grey-breasted bird found in wetlands throughout much of North America -- is a simple melodious trill, repeated over and over ...
New research dishes the dirt on the demise of a civilization
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
Two researchers are taking a new twist on long-published research about what an ancient civilization did for a living. W. Flint Dibble, a University of Cincinna...
Scientists discover oldest stone tool ever found in Turkey
Dec 29, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered the oldest recorded stone tool ever to be found in Turkey, revealing that humans passed through the gateway from Asia to Europe much ...
The fine-tuning of human color perception
Dec 24, 2014 (SPX)
The evolution of trichromatic color vision in humans occurred by first switching from the ability to detect UV light to blue light (between 80-30 MYA) and then ...
Mind over matter, the brain alone can tone muscle
Dec 24, 2014 (UPI)
New research suggests muscles respond to simple thoughts of exercise; simply imagining exercise can trick the muscles into delaying atrophy and even getting str...
Lightweight skeletons of modern humans have recent origin
Dec 24, 2014 (SPX)
New research shows that modern human skeletons evolved into their lightly built form only relatively recently--after the start of the Holocene about 12,000 year...
Commensal bacteria were critical shapers of early human populations
Dec 24, 2014 (SPX)
Using mathematical modeling, researchers at New York and Vanderbilt universities have shown that commensal bacteria that cause problems later in life most likel...
Researchers date oldest stone tool ever found in Turkey
Dec 23, 2014 (UPI)
After a series of sophisticated dating techniques, scientists can confirm the discovery of the oldest stone tool ever found in Turkey. The find pushes back the ...
Echolocation acts as supplemental sense for the blind
Dec 23, 2014 (UPI)
Echolocation is most famously employed by bats and toothed whales like dolphins and porpoises. But new research suggests the technique can offer a substitute vi...
Egyptian culture minister disputes million-mummy cemetery claim
Dec 22, 2014 (UPI)
An Egyptian culture minister is disputing claims that archaeologists have discovered a remote cemetery boasting a million mummies. "It is not true," Yousef Khal...
More than a million mummies found in ancient Roman cemetery
Dec 18, 2014 (UPI)
A team of archaeologists from Brigham Young University have nearly completed their excavation of an ancient Egyptian cemetery boasting more than a million mummi...
How information moves between cultures
Dec 18, 2014 (SPX)
By analyzing data on multilingual Twitter users and Wikipedia editors and on 30 years' worth of book translations in 150 countries, researchers at MIT, Harvard ...
Tourism poses a threat to dolphins in the Balearic Islands
Dec 18, 2014 (SPX)
The rise in tourism, fishing and sea transport between the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands is compromising the wellbeing of a small population of com...
Human DNA shows traces of ancient battle between primate and pathogen
Dec 18, 2014 (SPX)
Examination of DNA from 21 primate species - from squirrel monkeys to humans - exposes an evolutionary war against infectious bacteria over iron that circulates...
Reshaping the horse through millennia
Dec 16, 2014 (SPX)
Whole genome sequencing of modern and ancient horses unveils the genes that have been selected by humans in the process of domestication through the latest 5.50...
Study: humans first began using fire regularly some 350,000 years ago
Dec 15, 2014 (UPI)
Archaeologists, historians and evolutionary biologists have long tried to affix the development of humans to various technological milestones -- tool-making, th...
Scientists reveal parchment's hidden stories
Dec 10, 2014 (SPX)
Millions of documents stored in archives could provide scientists with the key to tracing agricultural development across the centuries, according to new resear...
Ancient engravings rewrite human history
Dec 10, 2014 (SPX)
An international team of scientists has discovered the earliest known engravings from human ancestors on a 400,000 year-old fossilised shell from Java. The disc...
Commentary calls for new 'science of climate diversity'
Dec 10, 2014 (SPX)
There is cloud hanging over climate science, but one Cornell University expert on communication and environmental issues says he knows how to help clear the air...
Living African group most populous humans over past 150,000 years
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
New genetic research reveals that a small group of hunter-gatherers now living in Southern Africa once was so large that it comprised the majority of living hum...
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