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Texting may be good for your health
Dec 27, 2013 (SPX)
New University of Michigan research says that a simple tool right in your back pocket may help decrease your risk for type 2 diabetes: Text messages on your pho...
New evidence that computers change the way we learn
Dec 23, 2013 (SPX)
People who use computers regularly are constantly mapping the movements of their hand and computer mouse to the cursor on the screen. Now, researchers reporting...
Neanderthal genome shows early human interbreeding, inbreeding
Dec 20, 2013 (SPX)
The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history o...
Fossil throat bone suggests Neanderthals had power of speech
Dec 20, 2013 (UPI)
An analysis of a fossil bone suggests Neanderthals may have had the ability to speak, an Australian researcher says. Stephen Wroe of the University of New South...
Sunlight adaptation of Neanderthal genome found in 65 percent of modern East Asians
Dec 20, 2013 (SPX)
With the Neanderthal genome now published, for the first time, scientists have a rich new resource of comparative evolution. For example, recently, scientists h...
Prismatic social network follows interests
Dec 19, 2013 (AFP)
Prismatic chief Bradford Cross believes that online social networks should go beyond following people to pursuing interests. To that end, the San Francisco-base...
Study: Kids understand multi-digit numbers as early as age 3
Dec 18, 2013 (UPI)
Children as young as 3 years old can grasp large numbers and may be ready for more direct math instruction when they enter school, U.S. researchers say. The fin...
Discovery of 1.4 million-year-old fossil human hand bone closes human evolution gap
Dec 17, 2013 (SPX)
Humans have a distinctive hand anatomy that allows them to make and use tools. Apes and other nonhuman primates do not have these distinctive anatomical feature...
Chimpanzees are rational, not conformists
Dec 17, 2013 (SPX)
Chimpanzees are sensitive to social influences but they maintain their own strategy to solve a problem rather than conform to what the majority of group members...
Neanderthals buried their dead
Dec 17, 2013 (SPX)
Neanderthals, forerunners to modern humans, buried their dead, an international team of archaeologists has concluded after a 13-year study of remains discovered...
Study: Young people in Canada prefer urban cores to suburban living
Dec 16, 2013 (UPI)
In choosing where to live, young people in Canada are trending toward transit-rich urban cores over the suburbs, a study indicates. Researchers at the Universit...
Evolution of 'third party punishment'
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
You're shopping for holiday gifts when you spot someone pocketing a nice pair of leather gloves. What do you do? A new study by University of Maryland researche...
Simple mathematical formula describes human struggles
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
Would you believe that a broad range of human struggles can be understood by using a mathematical formula? From child-parent struggles to cyber-attacks and civi...
New evidence suggests Neanderthals organized their living spaces
Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have found that Neanderthals organized their living spaces in ways that would be familiar to modern humans, a discovery that once again shows similar...
Oldest hominin DNA sequenced
Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)
Using novel techniques to extract and study ancient DNA researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have determin...
Scientists find second, 'hidden' language in human genetic code
Dec 12, 2013 (UPI)
U.S. geneticists say a second code hiding within DNA changes how scientists read its instructions and interpret mutations to make sense of health and disease. S...
Not all species age the same; humans may be outliers
Dec 12, 2013 (SPX)
Adult humans get weaker as they age and then die, but that's not the typical pattern across species. Some organisms don't appear to show signs of aging at all. ...
Aging out of bounds
Dec 12, 2013 (SPX)
Despite aging being one the hottest topic in the media recently, scientists have no coherent explanation for it. New demographic data on humans, animals and pla...
Malaysia's once-nomadic Penan caught between two worlds
Dec 11, 2013 (AFP)
Through eons spent roaming Borneo's rainforests, Malaysia's Penan people became supremely adapted to surviving, and thriving, in the wild. But that has left the...
Not all species age the same, and humans are outside the norm
Dec 11, 2013 (UPI)
Not all species age the same, U.S. researchers say, and humans may be outside the norm because adult humans get weaker as they age and then die. That's not the ...
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