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Eyes are windows to the soul -- and evolution
Mar 24, 2014 (SPX)
Why do we become saucer-eyed from fear and squint from disgust? These near-opposite facial expressions are rooted in emotional responses that exploit how our ey...
New stratigraphic research makes Little Foot the oldest complete Australopithecus
Mar 17, 2014 (SPX)
After 13 years of meticulous excavation of the nearly complete skeleton of the Australopithecus fossil named Little Foot, South African and French scientists ha...
Stirring the simmering 'designer baby' pot
Mar 16, 2014 (SPX)
From genetic and genomic testing to new techniques in human assisted reproduction, various technologies are providing parents with more of a say about the child...
Empathy chimpanzees offer is key to understanding human engagement
Mar 12, 2014 (SPX)
In their latest study about empathy, Yerkes National Primate Research Center researchers Matthew Campbell, PhD, and Frans de Waal, PhD, have shown chimpanzees e...
Natural selection has altered the appearance of Europeans over the past 5,000 years
Mar 12, 2014 (SPX)
There has been much research into the factors that have influenced the human genome since the end of the last Ice Age. Anthropologists at Johannes Gutenberg Uni...
'Seeing' bodies with sound (no sight required)
Mar 10, 2014 (SPX)
People born unable to see are readily capable of learning to perceive the shape of the human body through soundscapes that translate images into sound, accordin...
Abandoned Spanish villages, given away for free
Mar 09, 2014 (AFP)
For sale: hamlet in Spain. Needs work. Price: zero euros. Like thousands of abandoned villages in Spain, A Barca -- with its 12 crumbling stone homes covered in...
Brain circuits multitask to detect, discriminate the outside world
Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)
Imagine driving on a dark road. In the distance you see a single light. As the light approaches it splits into two headlights. That's a car, not a motorcycle, y...
Research reveals first glimpse of brain circuit that helps experience to shape perception
Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)
Odors have a way of connecting us with moments buried deep in our past. Maybe it is a whiff of your grandmother's perfume that transports you back decades. With...
Cambodia's floating villages face uncertain future
Feb 28, 2014 (AFP)
Cambodia's floating villages have adapted to the ebb and flow of Southeast Asia's largest lake for generations, but modernisation and a scarcity of fish are now...
Baylor Sheds New Light on the Habitat of Early Apes
Feb 24, 2014 (SPX)
Baylor University researchers, in collaboration with an international team of scientists, have discovered definitive evidence of the environment inhabited by th...
Thinking it through: Scientists seek to unlock mysteries of the brain
Feb 20, 2014 (SPX)
Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to this challenge, we will gain profound insights in...
What makes memories last?
Feb 20, 2014 (SPX)
Prions can be notoriously destructive, spurring proteins to misfold and interfere with cellular function as they spread without control. New research, publishin...
Cortical convolutions controlled in sections
Feb 20, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers have tied a particular gene to the development of cortical convolutions-the prominent but enigmatic folds covering the surface of the human brain. T...
Why did the orangutan come down from the trees?
Feb 19, 2014 (SPX)
Orang-utans come down from the trees and spend more time on the ground than previously realised - but this behaviour may be partly influenced by man, a new stud...
Ancient settlements and modern cities follow same rules of development
Feb 19, 2014 (SPX)
Recently derived equations that describe development patterns in modern urban areas appear to work equally well to describe ancient cities settled thousands of ...
For new study, 100 people commit their bodies to science
Feb 15, 2014 (AFP)
One hundred people are about to share their live bodies for science as part of an unprecedented new study that will examine how to improve personal health, rese...
Mobile apps shake up world of dating
Feb 13, 2014 (AFP)
Looking to meet women, 20-year-old US college student Leland turned to mobile phone app Tinder, after a friend told him about his own successful exploits. Lelan...
Population bomb may be defused, but research reveals ticking household bomb
Feb 13, 2014 (SPX)
After decades of fretting about population explosion, scientists are pointing to a long-term hidden global menace. The household. More specifically, the househo...
The genetic origins of high-altitude adaptations in Tibetans
Feb 13, 2014 (SPX)
Genetic adaptations for life at high elevations found in residents of the Tibetan plateau likely originated around 30,000 years ago in peoples related to contem...
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