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Lessons at home and homework at school in US
Jun 28, 2013 (AFP)
When April Burton explains the intricacies of French grammar to her American classroom, the students are at home, in front of their computer or smartphone. As f...
The evolution of throwing
Jun 27, 2013 (SPX)
It's easy to marvel at the athleticism required to throw a 90-mile-per-hour fastball, but when Neil Roach watches baseball, he sees something else at work - evo...
China to fund search for origins of early humans
Jun 27, 2013 (UPI)
Officials in China's Hebei province say they'll fund a new project to search for early human fossils that may identify a new cradle of mankind. An investment of...
Monkeys' facial features evolved to prevent crossbreeding
Jun 26, 2013 (UPI)
Why do monkey populations and species living in close proximity to each other look so distinct? A new scientific study -- published this week in the journal Nat...
Australia, Indonesia to face off over people smuggling
Jun 26, 2013 (UPI)
Australia and Indonesia are set for a "challenging" meeting over people smuggling issues when their leaders meet in July, The Age newspaper reported. Australian...
Outside View: Cosby's inciteful insights on Muslims
Jun 25, 2013 (UPI)
The story goes a child worried his parents when, by age 10, he had yet to utter a word. One day the boy sits down to breakfast, takes a spoonful of oatmeal and ...
Professor finds prehistoric rock art connected; maps cosmological belief
Jun 24, 2013 (SPX)
It is likely some of the most widespread and oldest art in the United States. Pieces of rock art dot the Appalachian Mountains, and research by University of Te...
New research backs theory that genetic 'switches' play big role in human evolution
Jun 24, 2013 (SPX)
A Cornell University study offers further proof that the divergence of humans from chimpanzees some 4 million to 6 million years ago was profoundly influenced b...
Snail genetic tracks reveal ancient human migration
Jun 24, 2013 (SPX)
Some snails in Ireland and the Pyrenees are genetically almost identical, perhaps because they were carried across the Atlantic during an 8000-year-old human mi...
What do memories look like?
Jun 24, 2013 (SPX)
Oscar Wilde called memory "the diary that we all carry about with us." Now a team of scientists has developed a way to see where and how that diary is written. ...
New frontier for cybersecurity: your body
Jun 22, 2013 (AFP)
So far, the idea of hacking into medical devices has been limited to fiction and hacker demonstrations. But US regulators and security experts say the threat is...
Stone Age technological and cultural innovation accelerated by climate
Jun 19, 2013 (SPX)
Archaeological and genetic evidence suggests that modern humans (the modern form of Homo sapiens, our species) originated in Africa during the Stone Age, betwee...
New language discovered in Australia gives development insights
Jun 18, 2013 (UPI)
A new language discovered in a remote indigenous community in northern Australia reveals insights into how languages develop, a U.S. linguist says. University o...
Geographic context may have shaped sounds of different languages
Jun 14, 2013 (SPX)
The sounds of different languages may have been shaped by the geography of the places where they are spoken, according to research published in the open access ...
Penn Research Indentifies Bone Tumor in 120,000-Year-Old Neandertal Rib
Jun 13, 2013 (SPX)
The first-known definitive case of a benign bone tumor has been discovered in the rib of a young Neandertal who lived about 120,000 years ago in what is now pre...
Weapons testing data determines brain makes new neurons into adulthood
Jun 12, 2013 (SPX)
Using data derived from nuclear weapons testing of the 1950s and '60s, Lawrence Livermore scientists have found that a small portion of the human brain involved...
World's 'oldest woman' dies in China: family
Jun 11, 2013 (AFP)
A woman who Chinese officials said was 127 years old -- although international authorities never recognised the claim -- has died, relatives said on Tuesday. Of...
Human face built to take punches
Jun 09, 2013 (UPI)
Early humans had a lot of beef. As in they fought a lot -- not cattle (yet). And all that hand-to-hand combat, scientists from the University of Utah say, helpe...
Geneticist speculates humans could have big eyes, foreheads in future
Jun 08, 2013 (UPI)
One possibility for human evolution could be people with much larger eyes and foreheads 100,000 years from now, a computational geneticist speculates. Forbes ma...
Discovery of oldest primate skeleton helps chart early evolution of humans, apes
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of the world's oldest known fossil primate skeleton, an animal that lived about 55 million year...
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