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Princeton scientists identify neural activity sequences that help form memory, decision-making

Mar 19, 2012 (SPX)

Princeton University researchers have used a novel virtual reality and brain imaging system to detect a form of neural activity underlying how the brain forms s...

Self-centered kids? Blame their immature brains

Mar 16, 2012 (SPX)

A new study suggests that age-associated improvements in the ability to consider the preferences of others are linked with maturation of a brain region involved...

Strong scientific evidence that eating berries benefits the brain

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

Strong scientific evidence exists that eating blueberries, blackberries, strawberries and other berry fruits has beneficial effects on the brain and may help pr...

What have we got in common with a gorilla?

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

A team of researchers have completed the genome sequence for the gorilla - the last genus of the living great apes to have its genome decoded. While confirming ...

Human-like fossils in China caves puzzle scientists

Mar 14, 2012 (AFP)

The most recent fossils ever found of a human-like species in southeast China have presented scientists with a mystery about what may be an unknown Stone Age cu...

Knowledge gap widens gulf between South Asian nations

Mar 14, 2012 (IANS)

People in the South Asian region have little knowledge about each other that widens the gulf between them, experts at a regional conference said Saturday. The e...

First Evidence of Hunting by Prehistoric Ohioans

Mar 08, 2012 (SPX)

Cut marks found on Ice Age bones indicate that humans in Ohio hunted or scavenged animal meat earlier than previously known. Dr. Brian Redmond, curator of archa...

Lockheed Martin and ZyGEM To Offer Rapid DNA Analysis Platform for Human Identity Testing

Mar 08, 2012 (SPX)

Lockheed Martin and ZyGEM announced plans to release a version of their rapid DNA analysis platform that is designed to simplify and speed DNA analysis for huma...

Scientists search for source of creativity

Mar 06, 2012 (SPX)

It takes two to tango. Two hemispheres of your brain, that is. USC researchers are working to pin down the exact source of creativity in the brain - and have fo...

Neandertals faced extinction before the arrival of modern humans

Mar 05, 2012 (SPX)

New findings from an international team of researchers show that most neandertals in Europe died off around 50,000 years ago. The previously held view of a Euro...

Bosnian fights to save 'bear children', Laka and Gvido

Mar 03, 2012 (AFP)

Emin Ljutic is so attached to his twin brown bears he says he's ready to take his own life rather than see them put to death, as ordered by Bosnian law. In the ...

Website lets people shine light on dark secrets

Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)

People around the world share their deep secrets with Frank Warren and he, in turn, reveals them to all. Confessions drawn, pasted or written on postcards flow ...

Georgia Tech Develops Braille-Like Texting App

Feb 29, 2012 (SPX)

Imagine if smartphone and tablet users could text a note under the table during a meeting without anyone being the wiser. Mobile gadget users might also be enab...

Did Neanderthals take to the seas first?

Feb 29, 2012 (UPI)

Neanderthals may have taken to the seas to become ancient mariners centuries before modern humans managed the same trick, researchers in Greece say. Archaeologi...

New evidence of end of Neanderthals seen

Feb 27, 2012 (UPI)

European Neanderthals were dying off and already on the verge of extinction even before the arrival of competing modern humans, Swedish researchers say. Scienti...

Taking tips from Vikings can help us adapt to global change

Feb 27, 2012 (SPX)

Climate change, economic turmoil and cultural upheaval may be pressing concerns today - but history can teach us how best to respond, research suggests. Scienti...

Digital technologies reversing extinction of languages

Feb 17, 2012 (AFP)

Digital technologies are the new life-savers for languages on the verge of extinction, linguists said Friday as they announced eight new dictionaries at a major...

Chile social network shatters shyness barrier

Feb 12, 2012 (AFP)

You're madly in love but you just can't work up the nerve to let him or her know? Chile's social network Huntcha is out to blast through that great wall of shyn...

Brain capacity limits exponential online data growth

Feb 10, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists have found that the capacity of the human brain to process and record information - and not economic constraints - may constitute the dominant limiti...

Entire genome of extinct human decoded from fossil

Feb 10, 2012 (SPX)

In 2010, Svante Paabo and his colleagues presented a draft version of the genome from a small fragment of a human finger bone discovered in Denisova Cave in sou...