18 February 2010: Twins study at the at genetic influences on thinking. Read more
18 February 2010: Researchers
found
that
our
brains
are
constantly
computing
how much the experiences are worth to us. Read more
16 February 2010: New study examines the impact on children of food product placements in the movies. Read more
16 February 2010: Israel discovers large Byzantine-era wine press. Read more
15 February 2010: New research into our perception of time shows that for us humans, time is a lot more complicated. Read more
15 February 2010: A study reveals that six month old babies can understand our intentions. Read more
10 February 2010: Scientists have found that living a life of boredom can kill you. Read more
5 February 2010: Prairie dogs may have the most complex language. Read more
4 February 2010: Use
of
Twitter,
Facebook
rising
among
gang
members. Read
more
4 February 2010: Excessive
Internet use is linked to depression. Read more
3 February 2010: Trial
findings
suggest
fish
oil
supplements
beat
psychotic mental illness. Read more
3 February 2010: New
research rejects 80-year theory of 'primordial soup' as the origin of
life. Read more
3 February 2010: Researchers
have determined that the brains of people with body dysmorphic
disorder have abnormalities in processing visual input. Read more
26 January 2010: Too
much
choice
leaving
us
bewildered
and
depressed says study from
Stanford University. Read
more
26 January 2010:
Elementary school women teachers transfer their fear of doing math to
girls. Read more
21 January 2010: Researchers
have
found
three
key
factors
in
a
child's behavior that can lead to social rejection. Read
more
18 January 2010: Western
runners, of whom 90 per cent suffer injuries every year, would be
better off leaving their sneakers at home, and running barefoot. Read
more
18 January 2010: The rise of ‘cloud labour’ where a virtual workforce will undertake any task. Read more
14 January 2010: Self-control
is
contagious,
study
finds.
Read
more
13
January 2010: 'Weekend
effect' makes people happier regardless of their job, study says. Read more
11 January 2010: Fossil
footprints give land vertebrates a much longer history. Read
more
11 January 2010: Primate intelligence overestimated says new research. Read more
8 January 2010: Study finds gender differences in brain activity. Read more
8 January 2010: A new study published says that using gestures along with words is the best way to get your point across in communications. Read more
5 January 2010: Earlier bedtimes make for happier teens, a new study from Columbia University Medical Center suggests. Read more
17 December 2009: Learning styles debunked. Read more
14 December 2009: Modern life causes brain overload, study finds. Read more
11 December 2009: Observers were able to accurately judge some aspects of a stranger's personality from looking at photographs. Read more
9 December 2009: Social scientists build case for 'survival of the kindest'. Read more
8 December 2009: Emotions an
overlooked key to whistle-blowing, study says. Read more
2 December 2009: Loneliness
can
be
contagious.
Read
more
1 December 2009: Believers subconsciously endow God with their own beliefs
on controversial issues. Read
more
1 December 2009: The therapeutic benefits of the human-animal bond. Read more
26 November 2009: Some patients diagnosed with HIV
experience improved outlook on life. Read
more
25 November 2009:
'Covert' coping with job conflict ups heart risk, Stockholm study. Read
more
23 November 2009: Chinese researchers find innate correlations among different power law phenomena. Read more
20 November 2009: Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species. Read more
20 November 2009: Research has found shifting blame is socially contagious. Read more
19 November 2009: Can the
environment explain schizophrenia's hereditary patterns? Read
more
19 November 2009: Extinct moa rewrites New Zealand's history. Read more
17 November 2009: Meditation can cut the risk of heart attack, stroke, and death by almost 50% in patients with existing coronary heart disease. Read more
16 November 2009: Thoughtful
words help ease impact of marital strife on immune system. Read
more
13 November 2009:
NASA reproduces a building block of life in laboratory. Read
more
13 November 2009: Dreams may have an important physiological function. Read more
12 November 2009: Too much texting could lead to overuse injuries. Read more
12 November 2009:
New evidence that dark chocolate helps ease emotional stress. Read more
11 November 2009:
Research shows avatars can negatively affect users. Read more
11 November 2009: Emotions increase or decrease pain says study from Université de Montréal. Read more
10 November 2009: Theory about long and short-term memory questioned. Read more
9 November 2009: MIT economists find a new reason to think that environment, not innate ability, determines how well girls do in math class. Read more
9 November 2009: Deep creep means milder, more frequent earthquakes along Southern California's San Jacinto fault. Read more
6 November 2009: Scientists find butterflies splitting into two species. Read more
6 November 2009: Eating
quickly
is
associated
with
overeating,
study
indicates. Read
more
6 November 2009:
3D museum set to come to life. Read
more
6 November 2009: Alternate-day fasting
shows promise for obese dieters. Read more
5 November 2009: TV
exposure may be associated with aggressive behavior in young
children. Read
more
5 November 2009: Internet search process affects cognition, emotion. Read more
5 November 2009: Use
of
cannabinoids
could
help
post-traumatic
stress
disorder patients,
says the University of Haifa. Read more
4 November 2009: As little as five hours of exposure to a second language is enough to help infants incorporate characteristics of that language into their babbling. Read more
3 November 2009: Oldest known spider's web found in amber. Read more
30 October 2009: Mastering a skill makes us stressed in the moment, happy long term. Read more
29 October 2009: EU Lifelong Learning Programme – 2010 call for proposals published. Read more
29 October 2009: Giant skull of 12m pliosaur 'sea monster' unearthed in England. Read more
29 October 2009:
'Normal' sized girls are judged to be more attractive by young men. Read more
28 October 2009: Twice in the Earth's history, living creatures underwent astonishing growth spurts. Read more
28 October 2009: Anxious pregnant mothers more likely to have smaller babies. Read more
27 October 2009: Kids on TV: Just harmless entertainment? Read more
27 October 2009: Violence between couples is usually calculated, and does not result from loss of control. Read more
27 October 2009: Clean smells promote moral behavior, study from Brigham Young University, Utah, suggests. Read more
27 October 2009: Volcanoes played a pivotal role ancient ice age, mass extinction. Read more
27 October 2009: Regularly playing a musical instrument changes the anatomy and function of the brain and may be used in therapy to improve cognitive skills. Read more
22 October 2009: A neuroscientist is studying why the brain perceives scary situations in slow motion. Read more
22 October 2009: Tool-making human ancestors inhabited grassland environments two million years ago. Read more
22 October 2009: Primate fossil called Ida only a distant relative. Read more
21 October 2009: Studies point to cellular factors linking diet and behavior. Read more
21 October 2009: Gardening
proves
to
be
the
wonder
drug
for a wide variety of human ailments. Read
more
21 October 2009: Speaking several languages improves people's ability to master complex thinking processes. Read more
19 October 2009: World's oldest submerged town dates back 5,000 years. Read more
19 October 2009: Confronting bad behavior: is there a social payoff? Read more
15 October 2009: People whose ability to frown is compromised by botox injections are happier, on average, than people who can frown. Read more
14 October 2009: Candy
bar
or
healthy
snack?
Free
choice
not as free as we think. Read more
13 October 2009: Study
finds partner abuse leads to wide range of health problems. Read more
13 October 2009: Self-sacrifice
among
strangers
has
more
to
do
with nurture than nature. Read more
9 October 2009: A British
study has found that the children of working mothers are less likely to
eat right and exercise. Read more
9 October 2009: The simple act of exercise and not fitness itself can convince you that you look better. Read more
8 October 2009: Doctors should pay more attention to the link between common mental illness and obesity in patients. Read more
7 October 2009: Consuming
a
Mediterranean-style
diet
may
prevent
depression,
according to a new
study from Spain. Read
more
6 October 2009: Research
shows body posture affects confidence in your own thoughts. Read more
2 October 2009: Jurassic treasure trove of dinosaur eggs found in India. Read more
2 October 2009: Study reports children who eat sweets and chocolate every day are more likely to be violent as adults. Read more
2 October 2009: At 4.4 million years, Ethiopian fossil clarifies human–chimp relationships. Read more
1 October 2009: Research
into
female
monkeys'
grooming
habits
provides
new clues about the way
humans socialise. Read
more
30 September 2009: Young adults may outgrow bipolar disorder. Read more
29 September 2009: 'Top dogs' at school have better health in adulthood. Read more
29 September
2009: A study about orgasms, sexual health and attitudes about
female genitals. Read
more
28 September
2009: A study has shown subliminal messaging is most effective
when the message being conveyed is negative. Read
more
28 September 2009: Researchers at McMaster University have found a long day at the office can kill will to exercise, diet. Read more
28 September
2009: New Finnish research shows ways to predict violent
behavior? Read
more
28 September
2009: Children who are spanked have lower IQs, new research
finds. Read more
24 September 2009: Depression and anxiety disorders of adolescents are not the same thing. Read more
24 September 2009: Med students cross the line on sites from Facebook to YouTube, highlighting lagging policies. Read more
24 September
2009: Date Check turns smart phones into 'sleaze detectors. Read
more
22 September 2009: A fossil supervolcano has been discovered in the Italian Alps. Read more
18 September 2009: A study of Oxford
University rowers found athletes who exercise together can tolerate
twice as much pain as when they workout alone. Read
more
18 September 2009: A team of microbiologists found living stromatolites in the Andes. Read more
18 September
2009: German and British scientists shed light on how the
genetic change helped early Europeans drink milk without becoming ill. Read
more
18 September
2009: A study in Applied Cognitive Science finds that we're
likely to believe a doctored video over own memories of an event. Read
more
17 September
2009: Brain science to help teachers get into kids' heads.
17 September 2009: A skeleton, found at one of the most important Roman sites in Britain is puzzling experts. Read more
16 September
2009: Reading a book by Franz Kafka or watching a film by
director David Lynch could make you smarter. Read
more
16 September 2009: Studying ancient man to learn to prevent disease. Read more
15 September
2009: Four giant
stone hand axes were recovered from the the dry basin of Lake
Makgadikgadi in the Kalahari Desert. Read
more
15 September 2009: An international team of researchers has created the most complete seismic image of the Earth's crust and upper mantle beneath the rugged Himalaya Mountains. Read more
14 September 2009: Teeth and bones from late Ice Age animals, including hyenas, deer and woolly rhinos, have been discovered by archaeologists at a cave in Devon. Read more
14 September 2009: Researchers at the University of Guelph, Canada, have announced another step closer to destabilizing memories. Read more
14 September 2009:
A study by
the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests computers are now better
at lip-reading than humans. Read
more
11 September 2009:
Scientists may have discovered a way to glean information about stored
memories by tracking patterns of eye movements. Read
more
11 September 2009: Scientists develop novel use of neurotechnology to solve classic social problem. Read more
11 September 2009: A team of archaeologists and paleobiologists has discovered flax fibers that are more than 34,000 years old, making them the oldest fibers known to have been used by humans. Read more
9 September 2009: Research suggests that urbanites have less severe traffic accidents than rural inhabitants. Read more
4 September 2009: Childhood photos reveal happiness levels later in married life. Read more
4 September 2009:
Rewarding the helpful can be more effective than punishing
wrongdoers, a new experiment in game theory at Harvard University
suggests. Read
more
1 September 2009:
A five-year study followed more than 1,700 children and found that
depression in preschoolers is primarily predicted by two factors. Read
more
1 September 2009: Winners wear red: How colour twists your mind. Read more
28 August 2009: After a successful birth, opting not to breastfeed may trigger evolved mourning behaviors. Read more
28 August 2009:
Privacy advocates have long warned that users of Facebook and other
social networks who seek amusement from amusing quizzes might be
mortified by the way creators of such applications can access and
potentially "scrape" personal information about the quiz-takers and
their friends as well. Read more
26 August 2009: A team of scientists from Stanford University in Palo Alto, have conducted what they say is the first-ever study of chronic multitaskers found that cognitive performance declines when people try to pay attention to many media channels at once. Read more
30 June 2009: A microscopic analysis
of scratches on dinosaur teeth has helped scientists unravel an ancient
riddle of what a major group of dinosaurs ate and exactly how they did
it. Read more
30 June 2009: Social scientist creates a computer model to
determine human perception of hues. Read more
30 June 2009: Adult-child conversations have a more
significant impact on language development than exposing children to
language through one-on-one reading alone. Read more
29 June 2009: People with ample
moral self-worth in one aspect of their lives can slip into immorality
or opposite behavior in other areas -- their abundant self-esteem
somehow pushing them to balance out all that goodness. Read
more
29 June 2009: Intelligent wireless systems developed for
monitoring cultural monuments and historical structures. Read
more
29 June 2009: There is much more consensus among men about
whom they find attractive than there is among women. Read more
29 June 2009: Evidence is found that Cognitive Behavioural
Therapy (CBT) is of no value in schizophrenia and has limited effect on
depression. Read
more
29 June 2009: Language change can be traced using gigantic
electronic text archives of a dozen American and British newspapers.
Linguistics researchers can make use of it to track changes in language
usage. Read more
29 June 2009: Cooperative learning methods top the list of
effective approaches for secondary mathematics. Read more
26 June 2009: People in very early
stages of Alzheimer's disease already have trouble focusing on what is
important to remember: what to remember and what to forget. Read more
26 June 2009: Megapiranha paranensis, the previously unknown
fossil fish bridges the evolutionary gap between flesh-eating piranhas
and their plant-eating cousins. Read more
26 June 2009: Online ethics and the bloggers' code revealed:
telling the truth, accountability, minimizing harm and attribution,
etc. Read more
26 June 2009: In 'reading' a gaze, what we believe can
change what we see. Read
more
25 June 2009: Heavy women have lower
quality relationships, but same is not true for men, according to a
study addressing body image, weight, romantic relationships, and
differences between men and women. Read
more
25 June 2009: Archaeologists have discovered a water well in
Cyprus that was built as long as 10,500 years ago, and the skeleton of
a young woman at the bottom of it. Read more
25 June 2009: Psychiatrists who were studying perceptions of
beauty, had expected women to spend more time than men cooing over
pictures of extra-cute babies. A puzzling research outcome suggests
women have a harder time than men looking at babies with facial birth
defects. Read more
25 June 2009: Cultural games change attitudes. Persuasive
technologies such as educational video games are more effective at
changing people's attitudes or behaviours when they are adapted to a
specific cultural audience. Read more
25 June 2009: People shopping online are likely to bail out
on planned purchases before making the final click to submit their
orders, often because they are surprised by high shipping costs and
other fees. Read
more
25 June 2009: Employee involvement programs that executives
adopt to increase efficiency end up improving their record on workplace
diversity. Read
more
25 June 2009: A study adds to mounting evidence that
clinicians consider irritability as a symptom when diagnosing pediatric
bipolar disorder. Read
more
24 June 2009: Initial research
findings of a happiness gene, the genetic component of happiness
provide a positive outlook on life for those suffering from stress,
money trouble or chronic illness. Read more
24 June 2009: Ability to literally imagine oneself in
another's shoes may be tied to empathy. Read more
24 June 2009: Recent excavations in Jordan reveal evidence
of the world's oldest know granaries. Read more
23 June 2009: When we use a tool, it
changes the way our brain represents the size of our body. In other
words, the tool becomes a part of what is known in psychology as our
body schema. Read
more
23 June 2009: Alterations in the brain's white matter is a
key to schizophrenia. It can strike us in late adolescence or early
adulthood. Read
more
23 June 2009: Citizens in 34 countries show implicit bias
linking males more than females with science. It may have a powerful
effect on gender equity in science and mathematics engagement and
performance. Read
more
23 June 2009: Among older adults, less frequent
participation in social activity is associated with a more rapid rate
of motor function decline. Read more
23 June 2009: Social problems like bullying and stereotyping
involve thoughts, feelings and reactions that resist change. New
research shows that when students play active roles in virtual dramas,
their attitudes and behaviour can change. Read more
23 June 2009: The Science of Economic Bubbles and Busts. The
worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has prompted a
reassessment of how financial markets work and how people make
decisions about money. Read
more
22 June 2009: Attempted Iran media
clampdown meets Internet age, showing how difficult it is to shut off
the flow of information. Read more
22 June 2009: Domestication of Capsicum annuum chile pepper
provides insights into crop origin and evolution. Read more
19 June 2009: Interactive Web-based
science tutorials can be effective tools for helping elementary school
teachers construct powerful explanatory models of difficult scientific
concepts. Read
more
18 June 2009: Over the last 4
decades, medical studies of intercessory prayer—the prayer of strangers
at a distance—actually say more about the scientists than the subject
topic. Read more
18 June 2009: Our eyes move methodically through a scene
when seeking out an object. Our attention leaves the already-scanned
area behind and moves on to new, unexplored regions of a scene, still
seeking the target. Read
more
18 June 2009: Validity of the Implicit Association Test
result that indicates widespread unconscious or implicit, preference
for white people compared to blacks. Read more
18 June 2009: Wrong type of help from parents could worsen
child's obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Read more
17 June 2009: Putting a name to a
face may be key to brain's facial expertise. Read more
17 June 2009: An archaeological team has uncovered an
ancient and previously unknown Maya agricultural system -- a large
manioc field intensively cultivated as a staple crop that was buried
and exquisitely preserved under a blanket of ash by a volcanic eruption
in present-day El Salvador 1,400 years ago. Read more
17 June 2009: Doctors who ignore the socioeconomic status of
patients -- income, education, etc. -- when evaluating their risk for
heart disease are missing a crucial element that might result in
inadequate treatment. Read more
17 June 2009: Online obituaries are changing the way we
publicly remember the dead and how newspapers cover deaths. Read more
17 June 2009: Years of musical training leave the brains of
musicians better attuned to the emotional content, like anger, of vocal
sounds -- emotionally intelligent. Read
more
16 June 2009: Using a highly
sensitive new test, scientists in Europe are reporting "convincing
evidence" that marijuana smoke damages the genetic material DNA in ways
that could increase the risk of cancer. Read
more
16 June 2009: The exhaustion new moms experience is
likely due to sleep fragmentation, rather than not sleeping enough or
sleeping at the wrong times. Read
more
16 June 2009: Consumer experts have long recommended against
buying Extended Service Contracts (ESCs) with products. A new study
examines the reasons why so many people ignore the experts' advice. Read more
16 June 2009: Consumer attitudes toward emotional ads.
People's responses are affected by, in addition to positive emotions,
factors such as the amount of mental energy or attention they are able
to devote to the ads as well as the physical layout of the
advertisings. Read
more
16 June 2009: The dark side of gifts: Feeling indebted may
drive people to the marketplace. Read more
15 June 2009: Sleep selectively
preservers memories that are emotionally salient and relevant to future
goals when sleep follows soon after learning. Effects persist for as
long as four months after the memory is created. Read
more
12 June 2009: The popular computer
Wii game console, which simulates various sports and activities, could
improve coordination, reflexes and other movement-related skills, and
help treat symptoms of Parkinson's disease, including depression. Read more
12 June 2009: An increase in the use of Ecstasy may be
due to the outlawing of the party pill drug BZP and the bad reputation
of P, according to the latest findings of the illicit drugs monitoring
work done by Massey University researchers. Read more
11 June 2009: Internet-based therapy
programs are as effective as face-to-face therapies in combating
depression. Read
more
10 June 2009: An important new study
reveals that the overall well-being is initially plummeted in countries
directly affected by the fall of the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s. Read more
10 June 2009: How consequential a change of residence is to
behavioral outcomes such as crime. Relocation substantially lowers the
likelihood of re-incarceration for parolees. Read more
9 June 2009: According to new
research, television watching may be an important determinant of
bedtime, and may contribute to chronic sleep debt. Watching television
seemed to be the most important time cue for the beginning of the sleep
period. Read
more
9 June 2009: Researchers shed light on trading behavior in
animals and humans. Trading enables people to receive something that
they couldn't achieve on their own, requiring also a leap of faith. Read more
9 June 2009: Computer/console gamers who play for more than
7 hours a week and who identify their gaming as an addiction sleep less
during the weekdays and experience greater sleepiness than casual or
non-gamers. Read
more
9 June 2009: A study finds connection between evolution and
classroom learning. Read
more
8 June 2009: War and migration may
have shaped human behaviour. Demographic factors could be behind
diverse aspects of social evolution. Read
more
8 June 2009: Geography and history shape genetic differences
in humans, together with natural selection. Read
more
8 June 2009: Boys who carry a particular variation of the
gene Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA), sometimes called the “warrior gene,”
are more likely not only to join gangs but also to be among the most
violent members and to use weapons. Read more
5 June 2009: To understand the
evolutionary basis of some human behaviors, anthropologists must
consider not only issues connected to social evolution in animals, but
also the implications of the possible coevolution of genes and culture.
Read
more
5 June 2009: A recent study has investigated why some
cultural products and styles die out faster than others. According to
the results, the quicker a cultural item rockets to popularity, the
quicker it dies. Read
more
5 June 2009: High population density leads to greater
exchange of ideas and skills. Combined with a greater probability of
useful innovations, modern human behaviours appear at different times
in different parts of the world. Read more
5 June 2009: Cause marketing: Companies that join with
social causes to sell products not only enhance their image but also
improve their bottom line. Read more
5 June 2009: A research suggests that depression can be
treated effectively by helping people reclaim healing habits from a
more primitive way of life rather than modern psychotherapy or
antidepressant drugs. Read more
5 June 2009: Arts is good for the psyche. Youth who do arts
are psychologically better off than those who do not. Read more
5 June 2009: A new study of Chinese-American youth has found
that family obligation, for example caring for siblings or helping
elders, plays a positive role in the mental health of Chinese-American
adolescents and may prevent symptoms of depression in later teenage
years. Read more
4 June 2009: “Science diplomacy is
not the same as the use of science in diplomacy." Read
more
4 June 2009: A new theory called the Alliance Hypothesis for
Human Friendship is distinct from traditional explanations for human
friendship that focused on wealth, popularity or similarity. How you
rank your best friends is closely related to how you think your friends
rank you. Read more
4 June 2009: Our mood literally changes the way our visual
system filters our perceptual experience. When in a positive
mood, our visual cortex takes in more information, while negative moods
result in tunnel vision. Read more
4 June 2009: A paleontological survey to study fossil
remains of the bones and teeth of small vertebrateswas was
carried out in the cave of El Mirón in the Cantabrian region,
Spain,
over the past 41,000 years, at the end of the Quaternary. It is found
that the place experienced 7 cooling, warming phases. Read more
3 June 2009: Researchers have
discovered a fossilized face and jaw from a previously unknown hominoid
primate genus in Spain dating to the Middle Miocene era, roughly 12
million years ago. Read
more
3 June 2009: Why dishing with a girlfriend does wonders for
a woman's mood. A likely reason for gossiping: feeling emotionally
close to a friend increases levels of the hormone progesterone, helping
to boost well-being and reduce anxiety and stress. Read more
3 June 2009: Discoveries shed new light on how the brain
processes what the eye sees. The fact is: Visual input obtained during
eye movements is being processed by the brain but blocked from
awareness. Read
more
3 June 2009: Indonesian women born into rural communities in
rainy years grow taller, stay in school longer and live in households
with greater wealth. The study focuses on focus on a common source of
vulnerability in poorer agricultural economies—weather. Read more
3 June 2009: Cognitive behavioral intervention helps prevent
depression among at-risk teens. Read more
2 June 2009: Culture, not biology,
underpins math gender gap. Read more
2 June 2009: Computer scientists have developed a new way
of cloning facial expressions during live conversations to help us
better understand what influences our behaviour when we communicate
with others. Read
more
2 June 2009: Cutting-edge computer modelling software has
enabled a long-lost, trumpet-like instrument to be recreated - allowing
a work by Bach to be performed as the composer may have intended for
the first time in nearly 300 years. Read more
2 June 2009: The antidepressant citalopram does not appear
to reduce the occurrence of repetitive behaviors in children and teens
with autism spectrum disorders. Read more
29 May 2009: Sociologist
investigated how the context in which we meet people influences our
social network. One conclusion: you lose about half of your close
network members every 7 years. Read more
29 May 2009: A new study provides some of the strongest
evidence to date that Americans prefer to read political articles that
agree with the opinions they already hold. Read more
29 May 2009: When someone becomes dependent on drugs or
alcohol, the brain's pleasure center gets hijacked, disrupting the
normal functioning of its reward circuitry. A naturally occurring
protein can flip the addiction "switch". Read more
28 May 2009: A better process for
the mothers suffering from postpartum depression and other mood
disorders to develop healthy connections between their maternal
experiences and their infants' behaviors. Read
more
28 May 2009: Our brain is wired to identify gender based on
facial cues and coloring, according to a new study -- the luminescence
of the eyebrow and mouth region is vital in rapid gender
discrimination. Read
more
28 May 2009: A recent study finds that the antidepressant
effects of drugs like Prozac involve both neurogenesis-dependent and
-independent mechanisms. Read more
27 May 2009: Scientists have
developed a new way of dating archaeological objects – using fire and
water to unlock their 'internal clocks'. Read
more
27 May 2009: Kids with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD) need to fidget. It helps them to solve problems, just
like figuring out a math test. Read more
27 May 2009: A third species of Palaeopropithecus, an
extinct group of large lemurs, has just been uncovered in the northwest
of Madagascar. Read
more
27 May 2009: Neuroscientists feel they are much closer to an
accepted unified theory about how the brain processes speech and
language. Read more
27 May 2009: Banks are not responding adequately to
financial market fluctuations in using risk-assessment tool such as
Value-at-Risk (VaR). Read more
27 May 2009: Music is social communication between
individuals. The neurobiology of music perception and production is
likely to be related to the pathways affecting intrinsic attachment
behavior. Read more
27 May 2009: A new research: University students considered
likeable by people that met them in real life have been found to make a
similar impression on people who view their Facebook profiles. Read
more
26 May 2009: Social Brain Hypothesis
-- sociality has played a key role in the evolution of larger brain
size among several orders of mammals – is questioned. Increased brain
size is not routinely associated with sociality, as in the carnivore
species. Read more
26 May 2009: Head movement is more important than gender in
nonverbal communication. Women use more active head motion when
conversing with each other than men. Read more
26 May 2009: Available evidence supports the use of online
or other computer-based smoking cessation programs for helping adults
quit smoking, according to a meta-analysis of previously published
studies. Read more
25 May 2009: Study indicates people
by nature are universally optimistic. At the country level, optimism is
highest in Ireland, Brazil, Denmark, and New Zealand. Read more
25 May 2009: Computers have been used for years to
facilitate learning at a distance. A new European research programme
shows that computers can also enhance collaborative, face-to-face
learning and problem solving. Read more
25 May 2009: Ancient bones suggest "lefties" have been
coping with a right-handed world for more than half a million years. A
study of Homo heidelbergensis, an ancestor of Neanderthals, seems to
show that the ancient humans were predominately right-handed. Read
more
22 May 2009: Information engineers
in India and Japan believe they have found an automatic way to
discriminate between personal web pages and commercial pages designed
to fool consumers. Read
more
21 May 2009: Combination of old and
new media such as ICT (information and communications technologies)
deepens mathematical understanding. Read
more
21 May 2009: It has been discovered that whether someone is a
'people-person' may depend on the structure of their brain: the greater
the concentration of brain tissue in certain parts of the brain, the
more likely they are to be a warm, sentimental person. Read more
21 May 2009: Feeding behavior in monkeys and humans have
ancient, shared roots. Behavioural ecologists working in Bolivia have
found that wild spider monkeys control their diets in a similar way to
humans, contrary to what has been thought up to now. Read more
21 May 2009: In the past 50 years it has become commonplace
to think of Earth as a nurturing place. The Gaia hypothesis vs the
Medea hypothesis. Read
more
21 May 2009: The psychological reasons consumers may fall
victim to mass marketed scams are revealed today in a groundbreaking
research in UK. Read
more
21 May 2009: Using fire and water to unlock the 'internal
clocks' of archaeological objects. Read more
21 May 2009: Schizophrenia, a major psychotic disorder, does
not increase risk of violent crime, contrary to common assumption. Read more
20 May 2009: Scientists have found a
47-million-year-old human ancestor. Discovered in Messel Pit, Germany,
the fossil, described as Darwinius masillae, is 20 times older than
most fossils that explain human evolution. Read
more
20 May 2009: Perfect pitch is defined as the ability to
recognize the pitch of a musical note without comparing it to any
reference note. Musicians who speak an East Asian tone language
fluently are much more likely to have perfect pitch. Read more
20 May 2009: "Super-recognizers": those who can easily
recognize someone they met in passing, even many years later. A new
study suggests that skill in facial recognition might vary widely among
humans. Read more
20 May 2009: Exposure to 2 languages carries far-reaching
benefits. Read more
20 May 2009: Sick of the same old thing? It may be Variety
Amnesia. Researchers finds solution to satiation blues. Read more
19 May 2009: Ciguatera poisoning,
the food-borne disease, may be the key to the storied migrations of the
Polynesian natives who colonized New Zealand, Easter Island and,
possibly, Hawaii in the 11th to 15th centuries. Read
more
18 May 2009: Neandertals, the
'stupid' cousins of modern humans, are sophisticated and fearless
hunters. Read
more
15 May 2009: Achieving Fame, Wealth,
and Beauty ends can actually make a person less happy. Read more
15 May 2009: A new article suggests that our feelings in our
lifetime can affect our children. Our brain generates chemicals when we
are in different moods. They could affect 'germ cells' (eggs and
sperm). Read more
15 May 2009: Avoiding social potholes on your career path
alongside occupying the 'structural hole.' Read more
14 May 2009: People who live in
urban areas are more likely to develop late-stage cancer than those who
live in suburban and rural areas. Read
more
14 May 2009: Following the leader: social networks of school
children. Read
more
14 May 2009: Significant and widespread cognitive problems
appear to exist in schizophrenia in its earliest phase, making it very
hard for people with the disorder to work, study or be social. Read more
13 May 2009: Early diagnosis and
treatment of Alzheimer's disease could save millions or even billions
of dollars while simultaneously improving care. Read more
13 May 2009: Too much information: Choosing among products
can be more difficult if you tend to think more about the process of
using an item rather than the outcome of the purchase. Read more
13 May 2009: Body movements can influence problem solving.
The brain can use bodily cues to help understand and solve complex
problems, just like in a study, swinging their arms helped participants
solve a problem whose solution involved swinging strings. Read more
13 May 2009: A study shows that girls in sports develop
conflict-resolution skills. Read more
12 May 2009: Brain's problem-solving
function at work when we daydream. A study finds that our brains are
much more active when we daydream than previously thought. Daydreaming
is an important cognitive state. Read more
12 May 2009: To preserve the world's oldest submerged town
-- the ancient town of Pavlopetri in 3 to 4 metres of water off
the coast of southern Laconia in Greece, dated back to at least 2800
BC. Read more
12 May 2009: A research has found a traditional extract of
kava, a medicinal plant from the South Pacific, to be safe and
effective in reducing anxiety. Read more
12 May 2009: Spending more time in the sunshine could help
older people to reduce their risk of developing heart disease and
diabetes. Read more
11 May 2009: Representation of
confidence associated with a decision by neurons in the parietal
cortex. Read
more
11 May 2009: The Neoproterozoic interval of "hidden"
evolution refers to a gap of unknown duration between the time when
animals first evolved (uncertain) and the oldest known fossil or
geochemical evidence of animals (latest Neoproterozoic, about 600-650
million years ago). Read
more
11 May 2009: Will the economic crisis lead to major
societal changes? Why has the size of Japanese immigrant families
declined substantially? A new theory of social change and development
tries to answer these questions. Read more
11 May 2009: Punitive policies intended to reduce drug use
by making life difficult for convicted users are counterproductive and
actually lead to a vicious spiral of drug use and reincarceration. Read more
8 May 2009: Suicide rates in
Greenland increase during the summer. Researchers speculate that
insomnia caused by incessant daylight may be to blame. Read more
7 May 2009: A detailed analysis of
the feet of Homo floresiensis—the miniature hominins who lived on a
remote island in eastern Indonesia until 18,000 years ago—may help
settle the question of how similar was this population to modern
humans. Read
more
7 May 2009: A new study demonstrates that the use of a
consistent bedtime routine contributes to improvements in multiple
aspects of infant and toddler sleep, bedtime behavior and maternal
mood. Read
more
7 May 2009: It is possible to influence emotional evaluation
of visual stimuli by listening to musical excerpts before the
evaluation. Read
more
7 May 2009: Children as young as 19 months understand
different dialects. A ground-breaking study on the early development of
a cross-dialect skill, which is termed "phonological constancy." Read more
7 May 2009: Children who can stay focused and happier have a
better shot at good health in adulthood -- and this is especially true
for girls. Read
more
7 May 2009: Superior entrepreneurial performance is not
driven by technical knowledge, rather, mainly the non-technical
knowledge. Read
more
6 May 2009: The theory that everyone
in the world is six friendships away from everyone else is regarded by
many as a myth. Read
more
6 May 2009: Cognitive scientists have shown that when aware
of both a negative and positive stereotype related to performance,
women will identify more closely with the positive stereotype, avoiding
the harmful impact the negative stereotype unwittingly can have on
their performance. Read
more
6 May 2009: Deception in computer-mediated environments: Why
people are better at lying online. Read
more
5 May 2009: For the first time ever,
researchers in Italy have investigated the health of children born to
imprisoned women. The study examined the clinical diaries of children
who had lived in prison for one and half years between 2003 and 2005. Read
more
5 May 2009: Women who have babies naturally in their 40s or
50s tend to live longer. Now, a new study shows their brothers also
live longer, suggesting it is the genes rather than the social and
environmental factors. Read more
4 May 2009: A groundbreaking DNA
study has revealed our 'Garden of Eden' is likely to be on the South
African-Namibian border, home to the world's most ancient race. Read
more
4 May 2009: 'Climate change' forces Eskimos to abandon
village. Read
more
4 May 2009: A survey: 1,000 college students taking
introductory biology classes. Results showed that the views of majors
and non-majors were similar and revealed that high school biology
teachers influence whether majors and non-majors college students
accept evolution or question it based on creationism. Read more
1 May 2009: Proteins, soft tissue
from 80 million-year-old hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur) add weight to
theory that molecules preserve over time. Read more
1 May 2009: African, American, and European researchers
working in collaboration over a 10-year period have released the
largest-ever study of African genetic data--more than 4 million
genotypes--providing a library of new information on the continent
which is thought to be the source of the oldest settlements of modern
humans. Read more
1 May 2009: Researchers develop better treatment for social
fears. Read more
1 May 2009: The story of ancient Persian Empire gets
digitized. Read
more
30 April 2009: High schools in
Finland and New Zealand have the best science results in the world, an
OECD study has showed. Read
more
30 April 2009: A new study provides direct experimental
evidence that a brain region important for reading and word recognition
contains neurons that are highly selective for individual real words,
processing written words as unique 'objects'. Read more
30 April 2009: A new longitudinal study of children's
personality traits and interests tells us that sex-typed
characteristics develop differently in girls and boys. Read more
30 April 2009: Research on social cognition conducted in
animals is now informing research in humans. The effects of oxytocin,
the "love hormone," on human couple interactions. Read more
30 April 2009: Addictive behaviour is determined by
conscious, rapid thought processes, not necessarily by the content of
visual stimuli -- attentional bias -- as previously thought. Read more
29 April 2009: Analysis finds strong
match between molecular, fossil data in evolutionary studies. Why
bother classifying organisms according to their physical appearance,
let alone analyze their evolutionary dynamics, when molecular
techniques had already invalidated that approach? Read more
29 April 2009: A study, of adults over age 50, also found
that women, but not men, get an added health benefit when paired with
someone who is conscientious and neurotic. Read more
29 April 2009: A new gene variant that is highly common in
autistic children, known as CDH10. Researchers discovered that the gene
is most active in key regions that support language, speech and
interpreting social behavior in the fetal brain. Read more
29 April 2009: New scientific evidence suggests that
dinosaurs may have survived the end Cretaceous extinctions in a remote
area of what is now New Mexico and Colorado, USA, for up to half a
million years. Read
more
29 April 2009: Study suggests left-side bias in visual
expertise. 2 specific effects for facial recognition - holistic
processing (in which we view the face as a whole, instead of in various
parts) and left-side bias. Read more
29 April 2009: Researchers have found short-term visual
memories suddenly disappeared, rather than fading. Read more
28 April 2009: Study suggests
Buddhist meditation temporarily augments visuospatial abilities. There
is now evidence that a specific method of meditation may temporarily
boost our visuospatial abilities, allowing practitioners to access a
heightened state of visual-spatial awareness that lasts for a limited
period of time. Read
more
28 April 2009: Major weaknesses in feminist social theories
-- untenable, far too undeveloped, and laden with insoluble internal
problems of logic. Read
more
28 April 2009: Early brain activity sheds new light on the
neural basis of reading. It is unlikely that enough time has elapsed to
allow the evolution of specialized parts of the brain for reading since
there were alphabetic scripts. Read more
28 April 2009: A new statistical model that simulates human
mobility patterns can aid in studying epidemic outbreaks, public
planning. It is the first to represent the regular movement patterns of
humans using statistical data. Read more
27 April 2009: A new study
challenges long-standing expectations that men are promiscuous and
women tend to be more particular when it comes to choosing a mate. Read more
24 April 2009: New Look at the
collapse of the great Maya civilization. Read
more
24 April 2009: A new economy is rapidly emerging: the
"ecological growth economy". It is the precondition for the
continuation of human progress and the survival of millions of other
species on Earth. Read more
24 April 2009: Researchers have found for the first time
that novelty seeking personality types enjoy a stronger “placebo
response”. The study hypothesizes that the anticipation of pain
relief, in this case triggered by the administration of a placebo, is a
special case of reward anticipation. Read more
24 April 2009: Indus script encodes language, reveals new
study of ancient symbols. A computer scientist has led a statistical
study of the Indus script, comparing the pattern of symbols to various
linguistic scripts and nonlinguistic systems, including DNA and a
computer programming language. Read more
24 April 2009: A research is the first of its kind to look
at the link between living abroad and creativity. Read more
23 April 2009: Researchers from the
United States and Canada have found a fossil skeleton of a newly
discovered carnivorous animal, Puijila darwini. New research suggests
Puijila is a "missing link" in the evolution of the group that today
includes seals, sea lions, and the walrus. Read more
23 April 2009: Tyrannosaur 'Missing Link' Among New
Dinosaurs From China: new species of theropod dinosaurs. Read
more
23 April 2009: The first study to document the relative
effects of calories from liquids compared with those of calories from
solid food on weight loss in adults over an extended period. Read more
23 April 2009: A growing appreciation of the links between
anorexia and autism spectrum disorders has uncovered new opportunities
for treating the eating disorder. Read
more
22 April 2009: Archaeologists
exploring an old military road in the Sinai have unearthed four new
temples amidst the 3,000-year-old remains of an ancient fortified city.
Read more
22 April 2009: Thinking your memory will get worse as you
get older may actually be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Negative
stereotypes about aging and memory loss… Read more
21 April 2009: How we feel linked to
both our culture and how we behave. Read
more
21 April 2009: A new study in USA is the first to actually
report that pathological patterns of video game addiction exist in a
national sample of youth, aged 8 to 18 -- nearly 1 in 10 youth gamers. Read more
21 April 2009: The World Digital Library, a website offering
free access to rare books, maps, manuscripts, films and photographs
from across the globe, launches on 21 April 2009 at UNESCO headquarters
in Paris. Read more
20 April 2009: Even low levels of
lead found in the blood during early childhood can adversely affect how
the child's cardiovascular system responds to stress and could possibly
lead to hypertension later in life. Read more
20 April 2009: Dialect Detectives. System that distinguishes
among variants in spoken languages could enhance automated machine
translation. Read
more
17 April 2009: Study explores roots
of ethnic violence – “conflict breaks out when large segments of the
population are excluded from access to government because of their
ethnicity.” Read
more
17 April 2009: TerraWorld, an island in the social
networking website Second Life, is designed to help high school
students to learn geology in an interactive way. It is part of the
larger GeoWorlds project. Read more
17 April 2009: Gambling ban would reverse recession.
Legalized gambling is weighing down the global economy. A new
collection of research renews decades-old calls to outlaw betting. Read more
16 April 2009: 3 Neanderthal
sub-groups confirmed. Whether the Neanderthals constituted a homogenous
group or separate sub-groups. Read
more
16 April 2009: New business theory shows compensation plans
can make or break a firm. Greed has been blamed for most of Wall
Street's woes and the banking sector's recent collapse. What about
envy? Read more
16 April 2009: The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved
monumental temple in Turkey — thought to be constructed during the time
of King Solomon in the 10th/9th-centuries BC -- sheds light on the
so-called Dark Age. Read
more
16 April 2009: Anthropologist Says Tree Climbing
Abilities of Early Hominins Decreased Rapidly in Evolutionary Process. Read more
15 April 2009: Quantum Theory May
Explain Wishful Thinking. While logic and reasoning point in one
direction for making decision, sometimes personal bias or simply
"wishful thinking" counts. Now, scientists have shown that a quantum
probability model can provide a simple explanation for human
decision-making - and may eventually help explain the success of human
cognition overall. Read
more
15 April 2009: Study suggests power of imagination is
more than just a metaphor. Imagination may be more effective than we
think in helping us reach our goals. Read more
15 April 2009: When searching a scene to find an object, we
have a bias toward inspecting new regions of a scene, and avoid looking
for the object in already searched areas. Whether this inhibition of
return is specific for visual search… Read more
14 April 2009: A study examined
breast and prostate cancer survival rates at different geographic
levels, and the results suggest that there are significant societal
factors at the root of cancer-related racial disparities. Read
more
14 April 2009: Psychiatrists and critical care specialists
have begun to tease out what there is about a stay in an intensive care
unit (ICU) that leads so many patients to report depression after they
go home. Read
more
14 April 2009: All African Pygmies, inhabiting a large
territory extending west-to-east along Central Africa, descend from a
unique population who lived around 20,000 years ago. Read
more
14 April 2009: Emotions linked to our moral sense awaken
slowly in the mind. Digital media culture may be better suited to some
mental processes than others. Read more
14 April 2009: Human beings are continuing to evolve as
our genes respond to rapid changes in the world around us. In fact, the
pressures of modern life may be speeding up the pace of human
evolution. Read
more
9 April 2009: More than half of
non-smoking New Yorkers have elevated levels of cotinine in their
blood. Cotinine, a by-product of nicotine breakdown, is a sign of
recent exposure to second-hand smoking. Read more
9 April 2009: Researchers recently completed a comprehensive
comparison of citizen journalism sites (news sites and blogs) and
traditional media Web sites. They found that legacy media are more
comprehensive than citizen media and bloggers. Read more
9 April 2009: A new study reports that one in six
patients receiving therapeutic doses of certain drugs for Parkinson's
disease develops new-onset, potentially destructive behaviors, notably
compulsive gambling or hypersexuality. Read more
9 April 2009: 5 Years after: Portugal's Drug
Decriminalization Policy shows positive results. Read
more
8 April 2009: For attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), in some cases it's even better to teach
skills than prescribe pills, according to a meta-analysis of 174
studies on ADHD treatment. Read more
8 April 2009: Adults have an intuitive understanding of
fractions which are thought to be a difficult mathematical concept to
learn. A study shows that cells in the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) and
the prefrontal cortex — brain regions important for processing whole
numbers — are tuned to respond to particular fractions. Read more
8 April 2009: Quants -- quantitative analysts -- are now
being cast as villains because they devised the financial instruments
and computer programs fueling stock markets' spectacular rise and
collapse. Read more
8 April 2009: Weight discrimination. Overweight and obese
women are significantly underrepresented among the top CEOs in the
United States, while overweight men were actually overrepresented among
top CEOs. Read more
7 April 2009: The stigma of obesity:
a review and update. Read
more
7 April 2009: Empirical research on wisdom is a relatively
new phenomenon, Researchers have compiled the first-ever review of the
neurobiology of wisdom - once the sole province of religion and
philosophy. Read
more
7 April 2009: What effect would thinking about other
people's self-control have on our own thoughts and behavior? Read more
7 April 2009: The legend is that the great rulers of
Canaan, the ancient land of Israel, were all men. But a recent dig
uncovered possible evidence of a mysterious female ruler. Read more
3 April 2009: Psychologist has taken
advantage of a key time when memories are ripe for change to
substantially modify memories of fear into benign memories and to keep
them that way. Read
more
2 April 2009: While we worry about
global warming affecting our future, it will also damage our past.
Archaeological sites from the frozen steppes of Central Asia to the
coast of Greenland are threatened by climate change. Read
more
2 April 2009: Scientists propose new theory of autism
that the brains of people with autism are structurally normal but
dysregulated, meaning symptoms of the disorder might be reversible. Read more
1 April 2009: How do we get more
young people interested in science? Leading the way are a number of
college courses that focus on the science in science fiction.
Superheroes may teach us about the answer to life and the universe. Read more
1 April 2009: Looking for an explanation for recurring
nightmares? New research suggests you can blame the Earth's magnetic
field. Read
more
31 March 2009: The contrast
sensitivity function (CSF) is routinely assessed in clinical evaluation
of vision and is the primary limiting factor in how well one sees. It
can be enhanced through action video game training. Read
more
31 March 2009: Survey experts have identified several
reasons why the Presidential primary 2008 polls, USA, picked the wrong
winners. The study is believed to be the most comprehensive analysis
ever conducted of presidential primary polls. Read more
31 March 2009: Advertising during a recession may yield
increased future earnings. Read more
31 March 2009: Better decisions come from teams that include
a "socially distinct newcomer." That's psychology-speak for someone who
is different enough to bump other team members out of their comfort
zones. Read more
30 March 2009: People make choices
based on their preferences, or choices influence preferences. A new
study backs both sides by identifying a component of the brain's reward
circuitry that seems to keep track of changing preferences. Read
more
30 March 2009: Personality at adolescence predicts
reproductive success later in life. The study findings showed that male
and female teens with socially dominant personalities were more likely
to have children as adults. Read
more
30 March 2009: Individuals with autism spectrum disorders
(ASD) tend to stare at people's mouths rather than their eyes. It is
lip-sync—the exact match of lip motion and speech sound… Read more
27 March 2009: The earliest known
and well-preserved bony fish has been found in southern China. The
fossil sheds light on the history of jawed vertebrates. Research
suggests that there was a split between ray-finned and lobe-finned
fishes which must have happened at least 419 million years ago. Read
more
27 March 2009: The European Commission said US laws
restricting online gambling went against WTO rules, but Brussels would
seek a negotiated solution to the dispute. Read more
27 March 2009: Self-led, self-structured inquiry may be the
best method to train scientists at the college level and beyond, but
it's not the ideal way for all high school students to prepare for
college science. Read
more
26 March 2009: A visual learning
study indicates that viewers can learn a great deal about objects in
their field of vision even without paying attention. Read more
26 March 2009: A new study provides intriguing insights into
mechanisms of cognitive flexibility at the single cell level. The
research may help to explain how we can change our point of view when
faced with conflict. Read more
26 March 2009: Visual learners convert words to pictures in
the brain and vice versa. Read more
25 March 2009: Researchers in Spain
and the UK have demonstrated that stroke patients who have lost part of
their spatial awareness experience enhanced visual awareness when
listening to music that they like. Read
more
25 March 2009: Design revolution. A revolutionary approach
to the design of consumer products - from automobiles to plasma TVs -
could cut manufacturers' warranty costs significantly. Read more
25 March 2009: Silver surfers: New social networking Web
site Genkvetch geared to seniors. Read more
24 March 2009: Groups share
information in workplace, but not the 'right' information. They discuss
information they already know and that "talkier" teams are less
effective. Read
more
23 March 2009: Evolutionary theorist
has published details of 8 patterns of all the humour that has ever
been imagined or expressed, regardless of civilization, culture or
personal taste. Read
more
23 March 2009: Scientists examine how social networks
influence behavior. Studying who the people you know know, and perhaps
also who those people know. Read more
20 March 2009: Other people know
more about what will make us happy than we do. Read more
20 March 2009: Heightened level of amygdala activity may
cause social deficits in autism. Read more
20 March 2009: Domestic and international influences shape
the politics of R&D and innovation. Read more
19 March 2009: Information warfare
in the 21st century: Ideas are sometimes stronger than bombs. Read more
18 March 2009: Money management
websites promising to save the Internet generation from financial
disaster. Read more
18 March 2009: A new study has found: Romantic love can last
a lifetime and lead to happier, healthier long-term relationships. Read more
18 March 2009: Study gives more proof that intelligence
is largely inherited. Read more
18 March 2009: Marriage's effect on lesbian and gay
couples studied. Read
more
17 March 2009: Perinatal environment
influences aggression in children. It's a well-documented fact that
children from zero to two can be spontaneously aggressive. Read
more
17 March 2009: Children exposed to a multi-year programme of
music tuition involving training in increasingly complex rhythmic,
tonal, and practical skills display superior cognitive performance in
reading skills compared with their non-musically trained peers. Read more
16 March 2009: The human brain’s
sensitivity to unexpected outcomes plays a fundamental role in the
ability to adapt and learn new behaviors. Read
more
16 March 2009: Reducing suicidal behaviors among adolescent
girls who view themselves as too fat. Read
more
16 March 2009: Geo-engineering solutions to carbon problem
studied. Ideas such as creating artificial trees to absorb carbon
dioxide, or reflecting sunlight away from the Earth, are under
consideration. Read
more
16 March 2009: Rising global temperatures may lead to
increased disparities between rich and poor countries, according to a
recent MIT economic analysis of the impact of climate change on growth.
Read more
16 March 2009: When it comes to achieving well-being, gender
plays a role. Men are much less likely to feel and express gratitude
than women, according to a research. Read more
16 March 2009: The rise of agriculture 10,000 years ago
meant the end of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle for which human beings
had been optimized by millions of years of evolution. Read more
12 March 2009: New techniques
suggest the remains of so-called Peking Man - a batch of Homo erectus
fossils found in the 1920s in China - are 200,000 years older than
previously calculated. About 770,000 years ago, it was a glacial period
on Earth. Read more
12 March 2009: The world's first Map of Science—a
high-resolution graphic depiction of the virtual trails scientists
leave behind when they retrieve information from online services. Read more
12 March 2009: Stimulus-reward pairing can elicit visual
learning in adults, rather than the prevailing assumption that one must
pay attention to something in order to learn it. Read more
12 March 2009: What I was doing vs. what I did: How verb
aspect influences memory and behavior. The way a statement is phrased
(and specifically, how the verbs are used), affects our memory of an
event being described and may also influence our behavior. Read more
12 March 2009: Who was Jesus? The historical person Jesus of
Nazareth. His proclamation of the forgiveness of sins is the key to
understanding how he perceived his own identity. Read more
12 March 2009: Ageism is still rampant in America, and many
old people themselves trade in unflattering stereotypes of the elderly,
including helplessness and incompetence. Young, healthy people who
stereotype old people may themselves be at risk of heart disease many
years down the road. Read more
11 March 2009: Suicide in the
workplace 'contagious' Read
more
11 March 2009: Study Rules Out Fröhlich Condensates in
Quantum Consciousness Model. Scientists don't fully understand how
consciousness works, and, so far, no classical theories can explain
consciousness in the brain. Read more
11 March 2009: A new study may explain why children
with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) move around a lot
- it helps them stay alert enough to complete challenging tasks. Read more
10 March 2009: Online abuse of the
world's top brands is rising. Cyber-squatting rose by 18% in 2008… Read more
10 March 2009: A skeleton exhumed from a grave in Venice is
being claimed as the first known example of the "vampires" widely
referred to in contemporary documents. Read
more
9 March 2009: Ancient groundwater
being tapped by Jordan, one of the 10 most water-deprived nations in
the world, has been found to contain twenty times the radiation
considered safe for drinking water. Read
more
9 March 2009: Gestures lend a hand in learning mathematics;
hand movements help create new ideas. Read
more
9 March 2009: Neuroscientists have identified the neural
systems involved in forming first impressions of others. The findings
show how we encode social information and then evaluate it in making
these initial judgments. Read more
9 March 2009: Economists say copyright and patent laws are
killing innovation; hurting economy. Read more
9 March 2009: Psychologist explores perception of fear in
human sweat. Given that more than one sense is typically involved when
humans perceive information, psychologist studied whether the smell of
fear facilitates humans' other stronger senses. Read more
6 March 2009: High novelty-seeking
and low avoidance of harm contribute to alcohol dependence. Read
more
6 March 2009: A market economy in which inventors can buy
and sell shares of the key components of their discoveries actually
beats out the winner-takes-all world of patent rights as a motivating
force. Read more
6 March 2009: Study finds that students benefit from depth,
rather than breadth, in high school science courses. Read more
5 March 2009: What is science
diplomacy? It is 'the use and application of science cooperation to
help build bridges and enhance relationships between and amongst
societies. Read
more
5 March 2009: Believing in God can help block anxiety and
minimize stress, according to new University of Toronto research that
shows distinct brain differences between believers and non-believers. Read more
5 March 2009: According to maritime archaeologist , ancient
Egyptians, best known for building pyramids, were pretty good sailors,
too. Read more
5 March 2009: A new study explores how and when
politicians can use fear to manipulate the public into supporting
policies they might otherwise oppose. Read more
5 March 2009: Contrary to popular belief, researchers found
that pride not only leads individuals to take on leadership roles in
teams, but also fosters admiration, as opposed to scorn, from
teammates. Read
more
5 March 2009: A new investigation studies the link between
emotions and health. The research proves that positive emotions are
critical for upkeep of physical health for people worldwide. Read more
5 March 2009: Transportation, transformed. Multidisciplinary
research will go way beyond the car. Read
more
4 March 2009: Lack of ability does
not explain women's decisions to opt out of math-intensive science
careers. They want the flexibility to raise children. Read more
4 March 2009: How multiple childhood maltreatments lead to
greater adolescent binge drinking. Read more
4 March 2009: Geologic Findings Undermine Theories of
Permian Mass Extinction Timing. Read more
4 March 2009: New Forensic Method Aims to Predict What a
Person Looks Like from DNA Sample. Read more
4 March 2009: New study reveals: Gifted children shape their
personalities according to social stigma. They usually choose to study
applied sciences. Read
more
4 March 2009: Study examines the role of gender in the
stigma of mental illness. The stereotypes are so powerful: Mental
patients are either violently dangerous or docile and incompetent. We
fear the first and disdain the latter. Read more
4 March 2009: It appeared that teens were sacrificing real
relationships for superficial cyber-relationships with total strangers.
But now social scientists are coming to believe that the psychological
benefits of Internet may now outweigh the detrimental effects. Read more
3 March 2009: Material success and
social failure? More unequal societies are bad for almost everyone
within them — the well-off as well as the poor. Read more
3 March 2009: The first systematic investigation of
the effects of gender and race on children's beliefs about moral
behavior, both in the virtual world and the real world, and the
relationship between the two. Read more
3 March 2009: The growing trend to move miles away from
hometowns and family for work is leaving many women feeling 'ignorant
and ill-equipped' to cope with pregnancy and childbirth. Read more
2 March 2009: Which facial feature
do humans look at to distinguish the faces of people? -- the eyes. What
may come as a surprise, however, is that our fellow primates, monkeys,
do the same thing. Read
more
2 March 2009: The argument over whether an outcrop of rock
in South West Greenland contains the earliest known traces of life on
Earth has been reignited. Read
more
2 March 2009: Alcohol types and socioeconomic status are
associated with Barrett's esophagus risk. Read more
2 March 2009: Doodling while listening can help with
remembering details, rather than implying that the mind is wandering as
is the common perception. Read more
27 February 2009: Psychologists shed
light on origins of morality. A link between moral disgust and more
primitive forms of disgust related to poison and disease. Read more
27 February 2009: 1.5 million-year-old fossil humans walked
on modern feet. Read
more
27 February 2009: Youths are most influenced by negative
family members and by positive adults outside the family. Read more
27 February 2009: Scientists show that language shapes
perception. Cognitive neuroscience have shown that what our eyes see
and what our brain interprets are two different things. Read more
27 February 2009: British researcher says Facebook a brain
drain. "As a consequence, the mid-21st century mind might almost be
infantilized, characterized by short attention spans, sensationalism,
inability to empathize and a shaky sense of identity." Read more
26 February 2009: Obesity in late
adolescence carries the same risk of premature death as smoking more
than 10 cigarettes a day. Read
more
26 February 2009: Don't flatter yourself: Why survey
research can be flawed. Read
more
26 February 2009: The question about the hobbit-sized people
who lived on the Indonesian island of Flores until about 13,000 years
ago is among the most hotly debated in archaeology. Read
more
26 February 2009: Stages of sleep have distinct influence on
process of learning and memory. Read more
25 February 2009: Re-shaping the
family: What happens when parents seek siblings of their
donor-conceived children. Read
more
25 February 2009: A report is the first to show that
gestures not only help recover old ideas, they also help create new
ones. The information could be helpful to teachers. Read more
24 February 2009: Understanding
speech in context: an opportunistic, proactive brain at work. Rrecent
studies of brain waves and linguistic interpretation… Read
more
24 February 2009: When dreaming is believing: dreams
affect people's judgment and behavior. From cultures all over the
world, people continue to believe that dreams contain important hidden
truths. Read
more
24 February 2009: Can different languages be analyzed using
the same model? A new analysis model from a comparison between
Spanish and Russian languages can also be applied to other languages. Read more
23 February 2009: Neural circuitry
of near-misses may explain the allure of gambling. Read
more
23 February 2009: People with serious mental illnesses
should receive greater guidance about sexual health, including the risk
of HIV. Read
more
23 February 2009: New anti-graffiti coating has been
developed to protect cultural heritage caused by graffiti attack. Read
more
23 February 2009: Educational video games effective in
classroom if certain criteria are met. Playing and studying are not
incompatible activities. Read
more
23 February 2009: Abuse in early childhood can
dramatically alter the way the brain copes with stress in adulthood. Read
more
23 February 2009: Researchers from Massey University have
developed a new way to predict stock markets that has been recognised
with an award from New Zealand finance specialists. Read more
23 February 2009: How we think before we speak: Making sense
of sentences. Read
more
23 February 2009: Researcher investigates how the gestures
of the blind differ across cultures. Read more
20 February 2009: The world-famous
La Brea Tar Pits and their surrounding area, Los Angeles —one of the
richest sources of life in the last Ice Age, approximately 40,000 to
10,000 years ago, is to be uncovered. Read
more
19 February 2009: Insights on
economic choices from game theory and cognitive psychology. Read
more
19 February 2009: Scientists Model Words as Entangled
Quantum States in our Minds. When you hear the word “planet,” do you
automatically think of the word’s literal definition, or of other
words, such as “Earth,” “space,” “Mars,” etc.? Read more
19 February 2009: The power of suggestion:
Researchers look at why suggestive therapy may prompt false
memories…compared with more natural recollections. Read more
19 February 2009: ‘ iTunes university' better than the real
thing. Read
more
18 February 2009: For the victim
(and indeed the perpetrator), bullying can have a significant impact on
a child's physical and mental health. Results from a trial carried out
by experts in the UK and US indicate that CAPSLE ('Creating a peaceful
school learning environment') could be a method that may reduce or even
eliminate this destructive behaviour. Read
more
18 February 2009: Genetic diseases and genetically mixed
populations can help researchers understand human diversity and human
origins. Read
more
18 February 2009: Differences in language-related brain
activity affected by sex? Men show greater activation than women in the
brain regions connected to language. Read more
17 February 2009: Six-year vitamin E
supplementation decreased mortality by 41% in elderly male smokers who
had high dietary vitamin C intake, but increased mortality by 19% in
middle-aged smokers who had high vitamin C intake. Read
more
17 February 2009: New research by the Carbon Disclosure
Project (CDP) revealed that three-quarters factor climate change
information into their investment decisions and asset allocations. Read
more
16 February 2009: Researchers have
some new answers to the perennial question of what men and women want
in a partner. Education and money attract a mate; chastity sinks in
importance. Read
more
16 February 2009: Tracking the digital traces of social
networks. Virtual games players stick close to home where researchers
have found a gold mine of networking data. Read
more
16 February 2009: Computerized writing aids make writing
easier for persons with aphasia which affects the ability to understand
and use spoken language. Read
more
16 February 2009: Social isolation affects how people
behave as well as how their brains operate. Read more
16 February 2009: Using synchrotron X-rays to tease the
hidden secrets of dinosaurs and old documents. The famous fossil, the
Thermopolis specimen of Archaeopteryx lithographica -- an
evolutionarily hybrid creature, a dinosaur on its way to becoming a
bird… Read more
16 February 2009: A new research platform soon to be
available at the leading UK science facility, Diamond Light Source,
will help uncover ancient secrets that have been locked away for
centuries. Read
more
16 February 2009: Internet emerges as social research tool.
The Web is moving to a virtual world where social interaction and
communities can inform social science and its applications in the real
world. Read more
13 February 2009: Psychoactive
compound activates mysterious receptor. Researchers have discovered a
hallucinogenic compound used in shamanic rituals, which regulates a
mysterious protein that is abundant throughout the body. Read more
13 February 2009: High-tech tests allow anthropologists to
track ancient hominids across the African landscape, helping to
illuminate the evolution of human diets. Read more
12 February 2009: People worldwide
have, more often than not, failed to follow through on scheduled plans.
An international group of researchers has published their answers. Read
more
12 February 2009: Deducing diet of prehistoric hominid
with mathematical models. Read
more
12 February 2009: Vatican view of Darwinism evolves into a
compatible theory. A leading official declared yesterday that Darwin's
theory of evolution was compatible with Christian faith. Read
more
12 February 2009: True or false? How our brain processes
negative statements. Read more
12 February 2009: Study shows males are more tolerant of
same-sex peers. Read
more
12 February 2009: Compete.com has crowned Facebook the most
popular social networking website, saying it racked-up nearly 1.2
billion visits in January 2009. Read more
12 February 2009: Expectations for teenage girls to be
brainy, athletic, nurturing, and look like supermodels are fueling a
generational mental health crisis. Read more
12 February 2009: Research reveals best paths for success as
microfinance sector grows. Roughly 40-to-80 percent of the populations
in most developing economies lack access to formal banking services. Read more
11 February 2009: The European Union
has signed a pact with 17 social networking providers including
Facebook, MySpace and Google to improve safeguards against the bullying
of teenagers online. Read more
11 February 2009: Researchers have confirmed one thing: When
men and women talk through technology, it's the women who are more
expressive. Read
more
11 February 2009: Multilingualism brings communities closer
together. Read more
10 February 2009: A study of 18,000
biology, chemistry and physics students has uncovered notable gender
bias in student ratings of high school science teachers. Read
more
10 February 2009: Professor analyzes if Montreal
Canadians are a hockey team or religion. Read more
9 February 2009: Pygmies in Western
Central Africa may have evolved from a common ancestral group. The rise
of farming may have caused formation of diverse groups. Read
more
9 February 2009: What colour most improves brain performance
and receptivity to advertising, red or blue? Read
more
9 February 2009: How Darwin's ideas were twisted into
'social Darwinism' which was invoked to defend the practice of
eugenics: enhancing the "quality" of the human race by weeding out --
persons deemed feeble of mind, body or both. Read more
9 February 2009: How to create less selfish societies? There
3 forces of evolution: mutation, natural selection, and cooperation. Read more
5 February 2009: Teens who 'sext'
racy photos charged with porn. Teenagers' habit of distributing nude
self-portraits electronically - often called "sexting" if it's done by
cell phone. Read
more
5 February 2009: Xenophobia, for men only. We do have an
evolved mental readiness to be fearful of certain things in our world. Read more
4 February 2009: New EU-funded
research sheds new light on how diet shaped the evolution of an early
human-like species. Scientists explain how the sturdy facial bones of
Australopithecus africanus enabled it to crack into large nuts and
seeds. Read
more
4 February 2009: New evidence from excavations in Arcadia,
Greece, supports theory of 'Birth of Zeus'. Read
more
4 February 2009: Computerized writing aids make writing
easier for persons with aphasia. Read more
4 February 2009: Boys have greater psychological well-being
than girls, due to a better physical self-concept. Read more
4 February 2009: A unique laboratory combines psychology
with technology to focus on the interaction between humans and complex
systems. Read more
3 February 2009: Scientists have
developed a computer game called “Gorge” - designed to help children
understand artificial intelligence through play, and even to change it.
It can also improve the children’s social interaction skills. Read more
3 February 2009: The irony of harmony: why positive
interactions may sometimes be negative. Read more
3 February 2009: Gender bias found in student ratings of
high school science teachers. Read more
2 February 2009: It is common belief
that a child’s intelligence and cognitive skills are predetermined by
genetic factors. Few realize that there is room for empowering young
brains and intellects through social interaction, intellectual
training, mental stimulation, physical and emotional security,
nutritious diets, and healthy family environments. Read
more
2 February 2009: Six Ways to Boost Brainpower. The adult
human brain is surprisingly malleable: it can rewire itself and even
grow new cells. Read
more
2 February 2009: Malaysian archaeologists have announced the
discovery of stone tools they believe are more than 1.8 million years
old and the earliest evidence of human ancestors in Southeast Asia. Read more
2 February 2009: Innovation: The cellphone economy. Read
more
30 January 2009: Sedentary, obese
older adults appear to improve their functional abilities and reduce
insulin resistance through a combination of resistance and aerobic
exercises. Read
more
29 January 2009: As technology has
played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and
analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved. Read more
29 January 2009: Marching to the beat of the same drum
improves teamwork. When people engage in synchronous activity together,
they become more likely to cooperate with other group members. Read more
28 January 2009: The FEMAGE project
evaluated how third country immigrant women cope with obstacles and
strengthen their economic and social integration in Europe. The project
partners assessed the women's experiences, expectations and living
conditions over a two-year period. Read
more
28 January 2009: Danube Delta holds answers to 'Noah's
Flood' debate. Did a catastrophic flood of biblical proportions drown
the shores of the Black Sea 9,500 years ago, wiping out early Neolithic
settlements around its perimeter? Read
more
28 January 2009: A new psychodynamic approach to bullying in
schools has been successfully trialled -- CAPSLE (Creating a Peaceful
School Learning Environment) is a groundbreaking method focused more on
the bystander. Read
more
28 January 2009: The teaching of languages could be
revolutionised following ground-breaking research about the best way to
learn a language which is through frequent exposure to its sound
patterns--even if you haven't a clue what it all means. Read more
28 January 2009: Does Smokeless Tobacco Help Smokers Quit
Cigarettes? While not without health risks, smokeless tobacco is less
harmful than cigarettes. Read more
28 January 2009: Video game conditioning spills over into
real life. Read
more
27 January 2009: A team of
University of Hertfordshire philosophers is conducting a three-year
research project to explore conscious experiences that contemporary
science still cannot explain.
Read more
27 January 2009: Websites 'must be saved for history'. The
British Library's head says that deleting websites will make job of
historians harder. Read
more
27 January 2009: Security blankets: Materialism and death
anxiety lead to brand loyalty. Materialistic people tend to form strong
connections to particular product brands when their level of anxiety
about death is high. Read more
27 January 2009: Can't help being the life of the party?
Maybe you were just born that way. Researchers from Harvard University
and the University of California, San Diego have found that our place
in a social network is influenced in part by our genes. Read more
26 January 2009: The Un-favorite
Child: Adults Who Perceived Parents as Being Lenient with Siblings
still Happy Later In Life. Read
more
26 January 2009: Video Games Linked to Poor Relationships
with Friends and Family. Read
more
26 January 2009: Link between Social Rejection and
Aggressive Behavior Explained. Read
more
26 January 2009: European researchers have developed the
most advanced spontaneous language understanding (SLU) system for both
Polish and Italian. In fact, it is the first one. Read more
26 January 2009: Researchers have shown that deficits in
non-verbal expressivity in schizophrenia are linked to poor social
skills and an unawareness of the thoughts and intentions of others. Read more
26 January 2009: Why some people can't put two and two
together. People with dyscalculia, also known as mathematics disorder,
can be highly intelligent and articulate. Read
more
23 January 2009: Osteoporosis? Look
out for depression. Read
more
23 January 2009: Pacific people spread from Taiwan. New
research into language evolution suggests most Pacific populations
originated in Taiwan around 5,200 years ago. Read more
23 January 2009: Researchers have discovered there are
differing taste pathways for nicotine, more than just the brain's
pleasure pathways. Read
more
23 January 2009: A study has shown that individuals with
high levels of trust in the mass media tend to be healthier. Read more
22 January 2009: Temporal
relationships established within archaeological complexes. Read
more
21 January 2009: Political
prediction markets accurately predicted Barack Obama's 2008 victory.
Now Northwestern University researchers have determined that these
markets behave similar to financial markets, except when traders'
partisan feelings get in the way. Read
more
21 January 2009: Language in humans has evolved
culturally rather than genetically. By modelling the ways in which
genes for language might have evolved alongside language itself, the
study showed that genetic adaptation to language would be highly
unlikely. Read more
21 January 2009: Altered brain activity in schizophrenia
may cause exaggerated focus on self. Study links schizophrenia to
key 'default mode' in brain. Read
more
20 January 2009: A group of Austrian
and British researchers estimate the extinction date of the huge cave
bear Ursus spelaeus that once inhabited Europe to be 27 800 years ago,
coinciding with the Last Glacial Maximum, a key period of climate
change. Read
more
16 January 2009: As many as 1
million working-age men died due to the economic shock of mass
privatization policies followed by post-communist countries in the
1990s. Read more
15 January 2009: Brain imaging
studies under fire. Social neuroscientists criticized for exaggerating
links between brain activity and emotions. Read
more
15 January 2009: New research reveals the brain activity
that underlies our tendency to “follow the crowd.” How human behavior
can be guided by the perceived behavior of other individuals. Read more
15 January 2009: Contraceptive use may be safe, but
information gaps remain. Read more
15 January 2009: Novels help to uphold social order. WHY
does storytelling endure across time and cultures? Perhaps the answer
lies in our evolutionary roots. Read
more
14 January 2009: A Czech design
company and producer of earth science and environmental instrumentation
has announced it is developing a new detector that may help relax
security regulations at airports, in particular those targeting the
transportation of liquids. Read
more
14 January 2009: Thinking that we have a limited amount of
time remaining to participate in an activity makes us appreciate the
activity more and motivates us to make the most of it. Read
more
14 January 2009: Education professor dispels myths about
gifted children. Read
more
13 January 2009: Defying the
Integration Models – the Second Generation in Europe. The research
reveals that there is unlikely to be a single politically-driven
answer. Read
more
13 January 2009: Behavioral Difficulties at School May
Lead to Lifelong Health and Social Problems. Read
more
13 January 2009: Scholars have long struggled with questions
about when and where the majority of some medieval manuscripts
originated. Now a researcher is using genetics to develop techniques
that will shed light on the origins of these important cultural
artifacts. Read
more
13 January 2009: Why we procrastinate and how to stop. Read more
13 January 2009: For 30 years, scientists have been studying
stone-handling behavior in several troops of Japanese macaques to catch
a unique glimpse of primate culture. By watching these monkeys acquire
and maintain behavioral traditions from generation to generation, the
scientists have gained insight into the cultural evolution of humans. Read more
13 January 2009: Researchers Show Why Peer Discussion
Improves Student Performance on 'Clicker' Questions. Read more
13 January 2009: Goth subculture may protect vulnerable
children. Read
more
12 January 2009: Online Racial
Discrimination Linked To Depression, Anxiety In Teens. Read
more
12 January 2009: Treatment with a pharmacological version of
the drug ecstasy makes PTSD patients more receptive to psychotherapy,
and contributes to lasting improvement. Read
more
9 January 2009: European researchers
have conducted a study which showed that while life expectancy is
increasing in the EU Member States, living longer is not always
synonymous with ageing well. Another mystery they unveiled is the age a
person will live to in good health. Read
more
9 January 2009: Lifelong Gender Difference In Physical
Activity Revealed. Females of all ages are less active than their male
peers. Read
more
9 January 2009: To make children happier, we may need to
encourage them to develop a strong sense of personal worth. This
research shows that children who feel that their lives have meaning and
value and who develop deep, quality relationships - both measures of
spirituality - are happier. It would appear, however, that their
religious practices have little effect on their happiness. Read more
9 January 2009: Teasing is good for you! The use of insults
at a young age improves social skills and helps children develop a
sense of humour. Read
more
9 January 2009: An analysis of an 18,000-year-old fossil,
described as the remains of a diminutive humanlike creature, proves
that genuine cave-dwelling "hobbits" once flourished in Southeast Asia.
Read more
8 January 2009: Access to modern
forms of energy does not guarantee a reduction in poverty. Contrary to
what current macroeconomic studies would have us believe… the key
factor is an efficient network with links to urban areas. Read more
7 January 2009: Researchers in the
UK and US have found that exercise levels vary between genders at all
ages. Boys were found to be more physically active than girls on the
playground, and in the over-70 group men exercised more intensively
than women. Read
more
7 January 2009: Researchers in the EU-funded HERMES
('Cognitive care and guidance for active aging') project are using
information and communication technology (ICT) to develop a
user-friendly system that will both support older people when their
memories fail and offer memory-boosting exercises. HERMES has been
funded from the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Read
more
7 January 2009: It is not easy to predict stock market
trends. Two financial researchers at BI Norwegian School of Management
have identified a target indicator that can predict future return on
shares. Read
more
7 January 2009: New research by a Rice University
psychologist clearly identifies the parts of the brain involved in the
process of choosing appropriate words during speech. Read more
6 January 2009: How the Lowly Text
Message May Save Languages That Could Otherwise Fade. Read
more
6 January 2009: The mystery of why ancient South American
peoples who created the mysterious Nazca Lines also collected human
heads as trophies has long puzzled scholars who theorize the heads may
have been used in fertility rites. Read more
6 January 2009: Scientists determine Viking trade routes by
the metal in their swords. Read more
5 January 2009: A new study finds
that the onset of physical disability boosts marital happiness more
often than not. Read
more
5 January 2009: Religion May Have Evolved Because Of Its
Ability To Help People Exercise Self-control. Read
more
5 January 2009: Ancient African Exodus Mostly Involved
Men, Geneticists Find. Read
more
5 January 2009: Archaeological Discovery: Earliest
Evidence Of Our Cave-dwelling Human Ancestors at the Wonderwerk Cave in
South Africa. Read
more
5 January 2009: Did Atlantis and Lemuria really
exist? Read
more
5 January 2009: Microscopic meteorites found in
Scotland have unveiled major clues about a catastrophic event which
dramatically altered the Earth’s surface nearly 500 million years ago. Read more
5 January 2009: Research by a team led by Professor
Derek Clements-Croome at the University of Reading has shown a direct
association between the environmental conditions in classrooms and
pupils' cognitive performance. Read more
5 January 2009: Electronic gaming machines have a
detrimental impact upon the lives of those who use them and their
associates, according to new research. Read more
5 January 2009: European researchers are pushing online
culture and heritage research way beyond Google by using a smart search
system that is multilingual, multimedia and optimised for cultural
heritage. Better yet, this promising system has wide application in
other fields. Read
more
5 January 2009: A groundbreaking study of popularity
by a Michigan State University scientist has found that genes elicit
not only specific behaviors but also the social consequences of those
behaviors. Read
more
5 January 2009: Invention: Vision amplifier. The
search for a technological solution to the problem has led to growing
interest in "bionic eyes". Read
more
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