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Biden calls ally Japan 'xenophobic' along with India, China
May 02, 2024 (AFP)
"Why is China stalling so badly economically? Why is Japan in trouble? Why is Russia in trouble? And India? Because they're xenophobic. They don't want immigran...
UK researchers unveil face of 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman
May 01, 2024 (AFP)
Named Shanidar Z after the cave in Iraqi Kurdistan where her skull was found in 2018, the latest discovery has led experts to probe the mystery of the forty-som...
Ancient landscapes point to Australia's initial human migration paths
Apr 30, 2024 (SPX)
An interdisciplinary team from The University of Sydney, Southern Cross University, Flinders University and Universite Grenoble-Alpes used a newly developed lan...
LGBTQ Iraqis fear dark days ahead after anti-gay law
Apr 30, 2024 (AFP)
But a homecoming has become impossible after Iraq's parliament passed an anti-LGBTQ bill on Saturday that criminalises same-sex relations, carrying sentences of...
Iraq passes bill sentencing same-sex acts to 10-15 years' jail
Apr 27, 2024 (AFP)
Transgender people will be sentenced to three years' jail under the amendments to a 1988 anti-prostitution law, which were adopted during a session attended by ...
Evidence of long term human occupation in lava tube cave in Saudi Arabia
Apr 22, 2024 (SPX)
The research focused on Umm Jirsan, a site rich with archaeological deposits dating from the Neolithic to the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age periods, approximately 10,...
Schoningen Discoveries Highlight Wood's Vital Role in Early Human Technology
Apr 05, 2024 (SPX)
The detailed analysis of these wooden artifacts, facilitated by modern imaging technologies such as 3D microscopy and micro-CT scanning, revealed a diversity of...
Activists slam new Hong Kong ID card policy for trans people
Apr 03, 2024 (AFP)
The city's top court decided in 2023 that it was unconstitutional for the government to require a person to complete full gender reassignment surgery before the...
Paleolithic sites near water sources key to understanding early human hunting practices
Mar 28, 2024 (SPX)
The duo's findings, published in the journal Archaeologies, draw from extensive research into flint quarrying and tool-making sites in the Upper Galilee. These ...
No 'human era' in Earth's geological history, scientists say
Mar 22, 2024 (AFP)
After 15 years of deliberation, a team of scientists made the case that humankind has so fundamentally altered the natural world that a new phase of Earth's exi...
Enhancing AI Truth Detection: A New Approach Against Economic Deceit
Mar 21, 2024 (SPX)
Mehmet Caner, co-author of the study and the Thurman-Raytheon Distinguished Professor of Economics at NC State's Poole College of Management, highlighted the ch...
How the brain coordinates speaking and breathing
Mar 12, 2024 (SPX)
The newly discovered circuit controls two actions that are required for vocalization: narrowing of the larynx and exhaling air from the lungs. The researchers a...
Becoming human: An ancient genome perspective
Mar 04, 2024 (SPX)
The fascination with human origins is a universal trait, intertwined deeply within various global belief systems. Traditional approaches to unraveling our past,...
How cognition changes before dementia hits
Mar 04, 2024 (SPX)
This deficit is independent of the memory deficit that characterizes this group and may provide an additional "cognitive biomarker" to aid in early detection - ...
Researchers say education might slow pace of aging
Mar 01, 2024 (UPI)
"Upward educational mobility was significantly associated with a slower pace of aging and lower risk of death," the School of Public Health's team said in a pre...
Finding Skywalker gibbons with love songs: study
Feb 16, 2024 (AFP)
When the Skywalker hoolock gibbon was first discovered in 2017 by a group of Star Wars-loving scientists, its only confirmed population -- less than 200 individ...
Roads, farming threaten Ecuador 'lost city' complex
Feb 13, 2024 (AFP)
Traces of an Amazonian "lost city" were first discovered in 1978, but the full extent of what is now believed to be the largest and oldest such urban expanse we...
Innovation in stone tool technology involved multiple stages at the time of modern human dispersals
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
Published in Nature Communications, the researchers' insights into stone tool technology suggest that the commonly held view of a 'revolution' in culture and te...
Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered the hunter-gatherer population
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
The extensive study has been published as four separate articles in the journal Nature. An international research team, of which Lund University in Sweden is a ...
US patient 'happy again' after brain implant treats epilepsy and OCD
Feb 04, 2024 (AFP)
But the repetitive rituals of her condition are largely consigned to memory, thanks to a revolutionary brain implant that is being used to treat both her epilep...
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