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Virtual Reality Could Help People Lose Weight and Fight Prejudice
Nov 15, 2012 (SPX)
Internet-based interactive games and social media outlets have become intertwined with the physical realities of millions of people around the world. When an in...
A better brain implant: Slim electrode cozies up to single neurons
Nov 15, 2012 (SPX)
A thin, flexible electrode developed at the University of Michigan is 10 times smaller than the nearest competition and could make long-term measurements of neu...
Research suggests that humans are slowly but surely losing intellectual and emotional abilities
Nov 15, 2012 (SPX)
Human intelligence and behavior require optimal functioning of a large number of genes, which requires enormous evolutionary pressures to maintain. A provocativ...
U.N. report: Birth control a human right
Nov 14, 2012 (UPI)
Investments in family planning could save developing nations $11 billion a year, a U.N. Population Fund report released Wednesday stated. The report -- "The Sta...
A firm molecular handshake needed for hearing and balance
Nov 12, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers have mapped the precise 3-D atomic structure of a thin protein filament critical for cells in the inner ear and calculated the force necessary to pu...
Activating the 'mind's eye': sounds can be alternative vision
Nov 12, 2012 (SPX)
Common wisdom has it that if the visual cortex in the brain is deprived of visual information in early infanthood, it may never develop properly its functional ...
Healthy Living Adds 14 Years to Your Life
Nov 08, 2012 (SPX)
If you have optimal heart health in middle age, you may live up to 14 years longer, free of cardiovascular disease, than your peers who have two or more cardiov...
Weizmann Institute scientists observe as humans learn to sense like a rat, with whiskers
Nov 08, 2012 (SPX)
Rats use a sense that humans don't: whisking. They move their facial whiskers back and forth about eight times a second to locate objects in their environment. ...
Bigger human genome pool uncovers more rare variants
Nov 02, 2012 (SPX)
Thanks to powerful computational tools developed at Simon Fraser University, more than 100 scientists from around the world have genetically mapped the largest ...
'Digital eternity' beckons as death goes high-tech
Oct 31, 2012 (AFP)
Death is no longer the fusty business it once was: from swipeable bar codes on headstones to designer urns, webcam-based ceremonies and virtual memorials, funer...
Village in Bulgaria said Europe's oldest
Oct 31, 2012 (UPI)
A prehistoric town unearthed in Bulgaria is the oldest such settlement found to date in Europe, archaeologists say. The walled fortified settlement, near the mo...
Primates' brains make visual maps using triangular grids
Oct 30, 2012 (SPX)
Primates' brains see the world through triangular grids, according to a new study published online Sunday in the journal Nature. Scientists at Yerkes National P...
Lucy and Selam's species climbed trees
Oct 30, 2012 (SPX)
Australopithecus afarensis (the species of the well-known "Lucy" skeleton) was an upright walking species, but the question of whether it also spent much of its...
Genetics suggest global human expansion
Oct 30, 2012 (UPI)
Scientists using DNA sequencing say they've uncovered a previously unknown period when the human population expanded rapidly in prehistory. The sequencing of 36...
Grandmas made humans live longer
Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)
Computer simulations provide new mathematical support for the "grandmother hypothesis" - a famous theory that humans evolved longer adult lifespans than apes be...
How fear skews our spatial perception
Oct 25, 2012 (SPX)
That snake heading towards you may be further away than it appears. Fear can skew our perception of approaching objects, causing us to underestimate the distanc...
New Stanford analysis provides fuller picture of human expansion from Africa
Oct 25, 2012 (SPX)
A new, comprehensive review of humans' anthropological and genetic records gives the most up-to-date story of the "Out of Africa" expansion that occurred about ...
New images could crack ancient writings
Oct 23, 2012 (UPI)
British researchers say new technology may soon allow historians to crack the world's oldest as-yet undeciphered system of writing. Scientists from the Universi...
Japanese lake record improves radiocarbon dating
Oct 19, 2012 (SPX)
A new series of radiocarbon measurements from Japan's Lake Suigetsu should help make radiocarbon dating more precise and accurate, especially for older objects,...
Discovery of two opposite ways humans voluntarily forget unwanted memories
Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)
If only there were a way to forget that humiliating faux pas at last night's dinner party. It turns out there's not one, but two opposite ways in which the brai...
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