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Aug 15, 2012 (SPX)

During the Neolithic Age (approximately 10000-6000 BCE), early man evolved from hunter-gatherer to farmer and agriculturalist, living in larger, permanent settl...

Early human ancestors had more variable diet

Aug 14, 2012 (SPX)

An international team of researchers, including Professor Francis Thackeray, Director of the Institute for Human Evolution at Wits University, will be publishin...

Researchers develop new physical face cloning method

Aug 14, 2012 (SPX)

Animatronics aims at creating physical robots that move and look like real humans. Many impressive characters have been created in this spirit, like those in th...

It's in our genes: Why women outlive men

Aug 06, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists are beginning to understand one of life's enduring mysteries - why women live, on average, longer than men. Published in Current Biology, research le...

Later Stone Age got earlier start in South Africa than thought

Aug 03, 2012 (SPX)

The Later Stone Age emerged in South Africa more than 20,000 years earlier than previously believed - about the same time humans were migrating from Africa to t...

Modern culture 44,000 years ago

Aug 02, 2012 (SPX)

An international team of researchers, including scientists from Wits University, have substantially increased the age at which we can trace the emergence of mod...

Hey, I'm over here: Men and women see things differently

Aug 02, 2012 (SPX)

In a new study published in the journal Vision Research, researchers at the University of Southern California show that the eyes and attention of men and women ...

Unprecedented accuracy in locating brain electrical activity with new device

Jul 31, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have developed the world's first device designed for mapping the human brain that combines whole-head magnetoencephal...

Piglets in mazes provide insights into human cognitive development

Jul 31, 2012 (SPX)

Events that take place early in life almost certainly have consequences for later cognitive development. Establishing the connections is difficult, however, bec...

Genomic study of Africa's hunter-gatherers elucidates human variation and ancient interbreeding

Jul 31, 2012 (SPX)

Human diversity in Africa is greater than any place else on Earth. Differing food sources, geographies, diseases and climates offered many targets for natural s...

The longer you're awake, the slower you get

Jul 30, 2012 (SPX)

Anyone that has ever had trouble sleeping can attest to the difficulties at work the following day. Experts recommend eight hours of sleep per night for ideal h...

Japan women lose longest-lived title: government

Jul 26, 2012 (AFP)

Japan's women lost their place as the world's longest-lived in 2011 for the first time in more than 25 years, officials said Thursday, after the quake-tsunami c...

Kissenger: virtual lips for long-distance lovers

Jul 23, 2012 (AFP)

Finding it hard to keep up the passion in a long-distance relationship? Help might be on the way. A robotics professor in Singapore has invented a gadget equipp...

Oregon's Paisley Caves as old as Clovis sites - but not Clovis

Jul 20, 2012 (SPX)

A new study of Oregon's Paisley Caves confirms that humans used the site as early as 12,450 radiocarbon years ago, and the projectile points they left behind we...

Neanderthals at El Sidron, Northern Spain, had knowledge of plants' healing qualities

Jul 19, 2012 (SPX)

An international team of researchers, led by the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and the University of York, has provided the first molecular evidence that Ne...

Unique Neandertal arm morphology due to scraping, not spearing

Jul 19, 2012 (SPX)

Unique arm morphology in Neandertals was likely caused by scraping activities such as hide preparation, not spear thrusting as previously theorized, according t...

Paisley Caves yield 13,000-year old Western Stemmed points, more human DNA

Jul 18, 2012 (SPX)

Archaeological work in Oregon's Paisley Caves has found evidence that Western Stemmed projectile points - darts or thrusting spearheads - were present at least ...

Pregnant new CEO for Yahoo! stirs US debate on working moms

Jul 18, 2012 (AFP)

No sooner was Marissa Mayer named chief executive of Yahoo! than she announced she's pregnant. In doing so, she ramped up a lively ongoing debate in the United ...

Endangered languages get a Google protection plan

Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)

Google on Tuesday unveiled an online information exchange platform to try to give some extra lasting power to more than 3,000 endangered languages. Called endan...

The Clovis First Theory is put to rest at Paisley Caves

Jul 16, 2012 (SPX)

Who were the first humans to enter the North American continent? Were they humans who founded what is known as the Clovis culture over 13,000 years ago? Or did ...