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Facebook, Apple to cover women's egg-freezing: report
Oct 14, 2014 (AFP)
Facebook and Apple are covering the costs for female employees to freeze their eggs to delay childbearing which could hamper their careers, NBC News reported Tu...
Buried complex of ancient cult uncovered in Israel
Oct 14, 2014 (UPI)
Archaeologists at the ancient site of Tel Burna, in Israel, have uncovered a massive complex they say likely served as the meeting place for a cult that worship...
How to be Emirati in a sea of foreign influence
Oct 09, 2014 (AFP)
Think of the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf and what springs to mind? Billowing white robes against desert dunes, camel racing and falconry or futuristic buil...
World's oldest rock art found in Indonesian cave
Oct 08, 2014 (UPI)
Archaeologists recently matched a date to the perfect hand stencil discovered on the wall of a cave in Indonesia roughly half a century ago. The painting is at ...
Protected caves in Oregon change ideas of early Americans
Oct 06, 2014 (UPI)
A string of caves in rural Oregon are now federally protected after being added to the National Register of Historic Places. Paisley Five Mile Point Caves were ...
Scientists are closer to understanding human height
Oct 05, 2014 (UPI)
Scientists believe they now have a better understanding of what determines height in humans. An international group of researchers came together and studied a g...
Curiosity helps the brain acquire new information
Oct 02, 2014 (UPI)
Being curious about something actually changes the way the brain behaves, preparing it to learn something new. In fact, a piqued interest doesn't just ready the...
DNA analysis suggests humanity has more mothers than fathers
Oct 01, 2014 (UPI)
Throughout human history monogamy has been a sexual philosophy largely eschewed by men, yet demanded of women. This was especially so for men of early human soc...
Skin pigment renders sun's UV radiation harmless using projectiles
Sep 30, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden and other institutions have worked out how the pigment of the skin manages to protect the body from the sun's dangerous...
Ancient genome from southern Africa throws light on our origins
Sep 30, 2014 (SPX)
What can DNA from the skeleton of a man who lived 2,330 years ago in the southernmost tip of Africa tell us about ourselves as humans? A great deal when his DNA...
Human genome was shaped by an evolutionary arms race with itself
Sep 30, 2014 (SPX)
New findings by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggest that an evolutionary arms race between rival elements within the genomes of prim...
New study explains the brain of multitaskers
Sep 27, 2014 (UPI)
Americans are becoming more and more comfortable with multitasking, and a new study from the University of Sussex might have an explanation for its relation to ...
Stone Age site challenges assumptions about human technology
Sep 26, 2014 (SPX)
The analysis of artifacts from a 325,000-year-old site in Armenia shows that human technological innovation occurred intermittently throughout the Old World, ra...
Innovative Stone Age tools were not African invention
Sep 26, 2014 (SPX)
A new discovery of thousands of Stone Age tools has provided a major insight into human innovation 325,000 years ago and how early technological developments sp...
Politics Divide Coastal Residents' Views of Environment
Sep 25, 2014 (SPX)
From the salmon-rich waters of Southeast Alaska to the white sand beaches of Florida's Gulf Coast to Downeast Maine's lobster, lumber and tourist towns, coastal...
Sensing Neuronal Activity With Light
Sep 24, 2014 (SPX)
For years, neuroscientists have been trying to develop tools that would allow them to clearly view the brain's circuitry in action-from the first moment a neuro...
Do wearable lifestyle activity monitors really work?
Sep 24, 2014 (SPX)
Wearable electronic activity monitors hold great promise in helping people to reach their fitness and health goals. These increasingly sophisticated devices hel...
Chimps raised by humans don't get along with other chimps
Sep 24, 2014 (UPI)
It's estimated there are more than 700 pet chimpanzees currently living in the United States, many of them smuggled illegally from Africa. Should any of these 7...
Modern Europeans descended from three groups of ancestors
Sep 22, 2014 (SPX)
New studies of ancient DNA are shifting scientists' ideas of how groups of people migrated across the globe and interacted with one another thousands of years a...
Human faces are so variable because we evolved to look unique
Sep 22, 2014 (SPX)
The amazing variety of human faces - far greater than that of most other animals - is the result of evolutionary pressure to make each of us unique and easily r...
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