Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners April 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 181 vote(s)
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Hairless, clawless, and largely weaponless, ancient humans used the unlikely combination of sweatiness and relentlessness to gain the upper hand over their faster, stronger, generally more dangerous animal prey, Harvard Anthropology ... | |
 First genome transplant changes one species into another August 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 118 vote(s)
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For the first time, scientists have completely transformed a species of bacteria into another species by transplanting its complete set of DNA. The achievement marks a significant step toward the construction ... | |
Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor January 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 95 vote(s)
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New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour ... | |
Clever plants chat over their own network September 25, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 82 vote(s)
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Recent research from Vidi researcher Josef Stuefer at the Radboud University Nijmegen reveals that plants have their own chat systems that they can use to warn each other. Therefore plants are not boring and passive organisms ... | |
Jilted dogs feel intense jealousy, new study reveals August 21, 2006 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 67 vote(s)
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Dogs are intensely jealous creatures that experience a range of complex human-like emotions, a new study at the University of Portsmouth has revealed. | |
Gene mutation linked to cognition is found only in humans May 08, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 100 vote(s)
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The human and chimpanzee genomes vary by just 1.2 percent, yet there is a considerable difference in the mental and linguistic capabilities between the two species. A new study showed that a certain form of neuropsin, a protein ... | |
Research confirms theory that all modern humans descended from the same small group of people May 08, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 162 vote(s)
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Researchers have produced new DNA evidence that almost certainly confirms the theory that all modern humans have a common ancestry. | |
Is there a homosexuality gene? December 07, 2006 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 73 vote(s)
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Although biologists are still far from answering this question, scattered evidence for a possible gene influencing sexual orientation has recently encouraged scientists to map out a guide to future research. Because many ... | |
Study finds facial expressions are inherited November 07, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 37 vote(s)
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Scientists have found that family members share a facial expression “signature”—a unique form of the universal facial expressions encountered worldwide. In a rare study taking into account blind subjects, Gili Peleg, et ... | |
 New motor first to be powered by living bacteria October 12, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 103 vote(s)
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A new motor designed by scientists from Japan offers the best of both worlds: the living and the non-living. The group built a hybrid micromachine that is powered by gliding bacteria which travels on an inorganic ... | |
Scientists Find Memory Molecule August 27, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 101 vote(s)
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In an article in Science magazine, SUNY Downstate researchers describe erasing memory from the brain by targeting a molecular mechanism that controls memory. Finding may be applied to chronic pain, memory loss, and ... | |
 You are what your mother eats: First evidence that mother's diet influences infant sex April 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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New research by the Universities of Exeter and Oxford provides the first evidence that a child’s sex is associated with the mother’s diet. Published today, in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society ... | |
Are humans evolving faster? Findings suggest we are becoming more different, not alike December 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 84 vote(s)
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Researchers discovered genetic evidence that human evolution is speeding up – and has not halted or proceeded at a constant rate, as had been thought – indicating that humans on different continents are becoming increasingly ... | |
30-year puzzle solved: Light guides flight of migratory birds August 10, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Songbirds use multiple sources of directional cues to guide their seasonal migrations, including the Sun, star patterns, the earth's magnetic field, and sky polarized light patterns. To avoid navigational errors as cue availability ... | |
 The evolution of intelligence, and why our brains have shrunk November 22, 2006 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 72 vote(s)
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One of the main differences between humans and other animals is our larger brain size—but what prompted and guided this growth? Wanting to better understand the origins of human uniqueness, scientists from ... | |
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