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A middle-ear microphone
May 02, 2012 (SPX)
Cochlear implants have restored basic hearing to some 220,000 deaf people, yet a microphone and related electronics must be worn outside the head, raising relia...
'Inhabitants of Madrid' ate elephants' meat and bone marrow 80,000 years ago
May 01, 2012 (SPX)
Humans that populated the banks of the river Manzanares (Madrid, Spain) during the Middle Palaeolithic (between 127,000 and 40,000 years ago) fed themselves on ...
Eating more berries may reduce cognitive decline in the elderly
May 01, 2012 (SPX)
Blueberries and strawberries, which are high in flavonoids, appear to reduce cognitive decline in older adults according to a new study published in Annals of N...
New study chronicles the rise of agriculture in Europe
Apr 30, 2012 (SPX)
An analysis of 5,000-year-old DNA taken from the Stone Age remains of four humans excavated in Sweden is helping researchers understand how agriculture spread t...
Learning mechanism of the adult brain revealed
Apr 30, 2012 (SPX)
They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Fortunately, this is not always true. Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN-KNAW) have ...
Scientists show how social interaction and teamwork lead to human intelligence
Apr 26, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered proof that the evolution of intelligence and larger brain sizes can be driven by cooperation and teamwork, shedding new light on the ...
Rio Summit must address population growth: scientists
Apr 26, 2012 (AFP)
A top scientific academy on Thursday called on June's Rio Summit to tackle population growth and voracious consumption that are placing Earth's resources under ...
NIST mini-sensor measures magnetic activity in human brain
Apr 25, 2012 (SPX)
A miniature atom-based magnetic sensor developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has passed an important research milestone by succ...
Meat eating led to earlier weaning, helped humans spread across globe
Apr 23, 2012 (SPX)
When early humans became carnivores, their higher-quality diet allowed mothers to wean babies earlier and have more children, with potentially profound effects ...
Majority-biased learning
Apr 20, 2012 (SPX)
The transmission of knowledge to the next generation is a key feature of human evolution. In particular, humans tend to copy behaviour that is demonstrated by m...
Genetic adaptation of fat metabolism key to development of human brain
Apr 20, 2012 (SPX)
About 300 000 years ago humans adapted genetically to be able to produce larger amounts of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids. This adaptation may have been crucia...
Chimpanzee ground nests offer new insight into our ancestors descent from the trees
Apr 20, 2012 (SPX)
The first study into rarely documented ground-nest building by wild chimpanzees offers new clues about the ancient transition of early hominins from sleeping in...
Development of the glial cell revealed
Apr 20, 2012 (SPX)
A vast majority of cells in the brain are glial, yet our understanding of how they are generated, a process called gliogenesis, has remained enigmatic. Research...
New study explores what the evolution of names reveals about China
Apr 19, 2012 (SPX)
What can surnames tell us about the culture, genetics and history of our society? That is the question being answered by Chinese researchers who have traced the...
Fine-scale analysis of the human brain yields insight into its distinctive composition
Apr 17, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science have identified similarities and differences among regions of the human brain, among the brains of human ind...
Excessive worrying may have co-evolved with intelligence
Apr 17, 2012 (SPX)
Worrying may have evolved along with intelligence as a beneficial trait, according to a recent study by scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and other in...
Data mining opens the door to predictive neuroscience
Apr 16, 2012 (SPX)
The discovery, using state-of-the-art informatics tools, increases the likelihood that it will be possible to predict much of the fundamental structure and func...
Chinese-Brazilian superkid insists he's no 'genius'
Apr 15, 2012 (AFP)
Moshe Kai Cavalin insists he is not a "genius" -- even though he earned an associate's degree when he was 11, and is soon to graduate from the University of Cal...
The Neurogenics of Niceness
Apr 13, 2012 (SPX)
It turns out that the milk of human kindness is evoked by something besides mom's good example. Research by psychologists at the University at Buffalo and the U...
Scientists find evidence that human ancestors used fire one million years ago
Apr 05, 2012 (SPX)
An international team led by the University of Toronto and Hebrew University has identified the earliest known evidence of the use of fire by human ancestors. M...
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