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Oct 18, 2012 (UPI)

We are all born tainted, or so most religions claim. There are a number of rituals to cleanse us so that we may enter humanity's diversity unmarked by sin. Ther...

The evolutionary origins of our pretty smile

Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)

It takes both teeth and jaws to make a pretty smile, but the evolutionary origins of these parts of our anatomy have only just been discovered, thanks to a part...

Novel chewing gum formulation helps prevent motion sickness

Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)

A new prototype for medicated chewing gum has been developed for motion sickness that may offer many advantages over conventional oral solid dosage forms. About...

Nasty noises: Why do we recoil at unpleasant sounds

Oct 15, 2012 (SPX)

Heightened activity between the emotional and auditory parts of the brain explains why the sound of chalk on a blackboard or a knife on a bottle is so unpleasan...

Chimps said attacking humans in Africa

Oct 11, 2012 (UPI)

Habitat loss may be the cause of some violent attacks by chimpanzees on humans in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, scientists say. At leas...

UN report warns of possible rise in child marriages

Oct 11, 2012 (AFP)

The number of girls who marry before their 18th birthday could increase dramatically over the next two decades, a new UN report warned Thursday. If current tren...

New human neurons from adult cells right there in the brain

Oct 09, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers have discovered a way to generate new human neurons from another type of adult cell found in our brains. The discovery, reported in the October 5th ...

Dating encounters between modern humans and Neandertals

Oct 09, 2012 (SPX)

To discover why Neandertals are most closely related to people outside Africa, Harvard and Max Planck Institute scientists have estimated the date when Neandert...

Last speaker of 'fisherfolk' dialect dies

Oct 04, 2012 (UPI)

The last native speaker of the Cromarty dialect, spoken by fisherfolk in the far north of Scotland, has died, the BBC reported. Retired engineer Bobby Hogg, 92,...

Compelling evidence that brain parts evolve independently

Oct 01, 2012 (SPX)

An Evolutionary Biologist at The University of Manchester, working with scientists in the United States, has found compelling evidence that parts of the brain c...

Anti-aging pill being developed

Sep 29, 2012 (UPI)

A British doctor says anti-aging drugs that can lower the risk of diseases such as cancer and dementia, as well as wrinkles, will soon be available. Linda Partr...

Human Brains Develop Wiring Slowly, Differing from Chimpanzees

Sep 27, 2012 (SPX)

Research comparing brain development in humans and our closest nonhuman primate relatives, chimpanzees, reveals how quickly myelin in the cerebral cortex grows,...

Breaking up harder to do on Facebook

Sep 23, 2012 (UPI)

Breaking up is hard to do and staying friends on social networking sites such as Facebook may make it harder, British researchers say. Tara C. Marshall of Brune...

Genetic mutation may have allowed early humans to migrate throughout Africa

Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)

A genetic mutation that occurred thousands of years ago might be the answer to how early humans were able to move from central Africa and across the continent i...

Ancient tooth may provide evidence of early human dentistry

Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers may have uncovered new evidence of ancient dentistry in the form of a 6,500-year-old human jaw bone with a tooth showing traces of beeswax filling, ...

People change moral position without even realizing it

Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)

Shortly after expressing a moral view about a difficult topic, people may easily endorse the opposite view and remain blind to the psychological mismatch, accor...

Seeing fewer older people in the street may lead low-income adults to fast-track their lives

Sep 20, 2012 (SPX)

Why do people in deprived areas live life in the fast lane? It may be because of the age of people they observe in the street, according to a new study by Danie...

How early social deprivation impairs long-term cognitive function

Sep 17, 2012 (SPX)

A growing body of research shows that children who suffer severe neglect and social isolation have cognitive and social impairments as adults. A study from Bost...

Some gains but many mysteries as Alzheimer's epidemic looms

Sep 17, 2012 (AFP)

More than 100 years after it was first caught in the act of decaying a patient's brain, Alzheimer's remains one of medicine's greatest challenges as it robs eve...

Stress breaks loops that hold short-term memory together

Sep 17, 2012 (SPX)

Stress has long been pegged as the enemy of attention, disrupting focus and doing substantial damage to working memory - the short-term juggling of information ...