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Council of Europe attacks genetic procedure
Oct 05, 2013 (UPI)
The Council of Europe has signed a declaration attacking England's plan to permit the creation of babies with DNA from three biological parents. British lawmake...
Einstein's genius put down to 'well-connected' brain halves
Oct 04, 2013 (UPI)
The brilliance of Albert Einstein's brain may have been down to unusually well-connected left and right hemispheres, U.S. and Chinese researchers say. Florida S...
Ancient sagas show Vikings more social, less warlike
Oct 01, 2013 (UPI)
Age-old Icelandic sagas describe complex social networks that challenge the stereotypical image of Vikings as unworldly, violent savages, scientists say. Resear...
Roma families face wholesale expulsion from France
Sep 27, 2013 (UPI)
The latest French government crackdown on the Roma communities in France has drawn protests from rights advocacy groups but not from the European Union itself, ...
Genetic study pushes back timeline for first significant human population expansion
Sep 26, 2013 (SPX)
About 10,000 years ago, the Neolithic age ushered in one of the most dramatic periods of human cultural and technological transition, where independently, diffe...
Your brain digitally remastered for clarity of thought
Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)
The sweep of a needle across the grooves of a worn vinyl record carries distinct sounds: hisses, scratches, even the echo of skips. For many years, though, thos...
Findings in Middle East suggest early human routes into Europe
Sep 13, 2013 (UPI)
Scientists say they've found evidence of when the earliest fully modern humans arrived in the Near East, the region known today as the Middle East. Radiocarbon ...
Synthetic speech system puts a dampener on noisy announcements
Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)
Public announcements in noisy places - such as railway stations, airports, or sports venues - could become quieter and clearer in future, thanks to new research...
Paleorivers across Sahara may have supported ancient human migration routes
Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)
Three ancient river systems, now buried, may have created viable routes for human migration across the Sahara to the Mediterranean region about 100,000 years ag...
New evidence that orangutans and gorillas can match images based on biological categories
Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)
The ability to form a general concept that connects what we know about the members of a category allows humans to respond appropriately when they encounter a no...
Orangutans plan their future route and communicate it to others
Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)
For a long time it was thought that only humans had the ability to anticipate future actions, whereas animals are caught in the here and now. But in recent year...
Researchers discover rare fossil ape cranium in China
Sep 11, 2013 (SPX)
A team of scientists from Penn State, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Arizona State University, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard ...
Long-disappeared rivers may have helped human migrations out of Africa
Sep 11, 2013 (UPI)
Three ancient river systems, now long buried, may have supported ancient human migration routes out of Africa to the Mediterranean, British researchers say. Tom...
Wide range of differences, mostly unseen, among humans
Sep 11, 2013 (SPX)
No two human beings are the same. Although we all possess the same genes, our genetic code varies in many places. And since genes provide the blueprint for all ...
New data reveals that the average height of European males has grown by 11cm in just over a century
Sep 10, 2013 (SPX)
The average height of European males increased by an unprecedented 11cm between the mid-nineteenth century and 1980, according to a new paper published online i...
Hidden shell middens reveal ancient human presence in Bolivian Amazon
Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)
Previously unknown archeological sites in forest islands reveal human presence in the western Amazon as early as 10,000 years ago, according to research publish...
The true raw material footprint of nations
Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)
The amount of raw materials needed to sustain the economies of developed countries is significantly greater than presently used indicators suggest, a new Austra...
Look at what I'm saying
Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)
University of Utah bioengineers discovered our understanding of language may depend more heavily on vision than previously thought: under the right conditions, ...
Researchers reveal hunter-gatherers' taste for spice
Aug 23, 2013 (SPX)
Our early ancestors had a taste for spicy food, new research led by the University of York has revealed. Archaeologists at York, working with colleagues in Denm...
Building better brain implants: The challenge of longevity
Aug 22, 2013 (SPX)
On August 20, JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments will publish a technique from the Capadona Lab at Case Western Reserve University to accommodate two c...
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