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Patents for humanity: Special edition of Technology and Innovation
Nov 03, 2014 (SPX)
The current special issue of Technology and Innovation, is devoted to patents that benefit people around the world who live with limited resources, in challengi...
Psychedelic mushrooms enable a hyperconnected brain
Oct 30, 2014 (UPI)
Many laypeople as well as scientists know the chemical that puts the "magic" in magic mushrooms is psilocybin. But how exactly does psilocybin affect the brain?...
Urban seismic network detects human sounds
Oct 30, 2014 (SPX)
When listening to the Earth, what clues can seismic data reveal about the impact of urban life? Although naturally occurring vibrations have proven extremely us...
Free urban data - what's it good for?
Oct 30, 2014 (SPX)
Cities around the world are increasingly making urban data freely available to the public. But is the content or structure of these vast data sets easy to acces...
Reducing population is no environmental quick fix
Oct 28, 2014 (SPX)
New multi-scenario modelling of world human population has concluded that even stringent fertility restrictions or a catastrophic mass mortality would not bring...
Highest altitude ice age human occupation documented in Peruvian Andes
Oct 27, 2014 (SPX)
In the southern Peruvian Andes, an archaeological team led by researchers at the University of Maine has documented the highest altitude ice age human occupatio...
Genomic data support early contact between Easter Island and Americas
Oct 27, 2014 (SPX)
People may have been making their way from Easter Island to the Americas well before the Dutch commander Jakob Roggeveen arrived with his ships in 1722, accordi...
Parts of UK 'under siege' from immigration: defence minister
Oct 26, 2014 (AFP)
Parts of Britain are "under siege" from immigration, prompting the government to look at ways to stem the number of EU workers arriving, Defence Secretary Micha...
Death and social media: what happens next
Oct 25, 2014 (UPI)
A lot of people wonder what will happen to their social media accounts and files after they die, and more companies and communities are getting involved in the ...
Some scientists share better than others
Oct 24, 2014 (SPX)
Some scientists share better than others. While astronomers and geneticists embrace the concept, the culture of ecology still has a ways to go. Research by Mich...
Ice Age people in Peru's Andes lived at extreme highs
Oct 23, 2014 (AFP)
Ice Age people were able to survive at high elevations in the Peruvian Andes 12,400 years ago, almost a millennium earlier than previously thought, researchers ...
Scientists reconstruct genome from 45,000-year-old skeleton
Oct 23, 2014 (UPI)
Scientists have reconstructed the oldest known human genome after finding the bones of a 45,000-year-old man in Siberia. The findings allowed scientists to furt...
Europeans lactose intolerant for 5,000 years after agriculture began
Oct 23, 2014 (SPX)
By analysing DNA extracted from the petrous bones of skulls of ancient Europeans, scientists have identified that these peoples remained intolerant to lactose (...
Identifying hidden minds in impaired consciousness
Oct 23, 2014 (SPX)
This study uncovers hidden signatures of brain networks that could support consciousness in patients who are unresponsive and seemingly vegetative, but who demo...
Autism autism evolved recently in human history
Oct 22, 2014 (SPX)
Human geneticists have discovered that a region of the genome associated with autism contains genetic variation that evolved in the last 250,000 years, after th...
Cadavers beat computers for learning anatomy
Oct 22, 2014 (SPX)
Despite the growing popularity of using computer simulation to help teach college anatomy, students learn much better through the traditional use of human cadav...
Those who rest their brain and reflect learn better
Oct 22, 2014 (UPI)
All work and no play makes the brain a dull toy. At least that's what new science out of the University of Texas suggests. Learning happens best, researchers sa...
Graphene sensors provide insights into brain structure and function
Oct 22, 2014 (SPX)
Understanding the anatomical structure and function of the brain is a longstanding goal in neuroscience and a top priority of President Obama's brain initiative...
Treasure trove of ancient genomes helps recalibrate the human evolutionary clock
Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)
Just like adjusting a watch, the key to accurately telling evolutionary time is based upon periodically calibrating against a gold standard. Scientists have lon...
New Antikythera Discoveries Prove Luxury Cargo Survives
Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)
A Greek and international team of divers and archaeologists has retrieved stunning new finds from an ancient Greek ship that sank more than 2,000 years ago off ...
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