Discovery of 1.4 million-year-old fossil human hand bone closes human...
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Humans have a distinctive hand anatomy that allows them to make and use tools. Apes and other nonhuman primates do not have these distinctive anatomical features in their hands, and...
View ArticleTheory on origin of animals challenged: Animals needs only extremely little...
One of science’s strongest dogmas is that complex life on Earth could only evolve when oxygen levels in the atmosphere rose to close to modern levels. But now studies of a small sea sponge fished out...
View ArticleHummingbird evolution soared after they invaded South America 22,000,000...
A newly constructed family tree of the hummingbirds, published today in the journal Current Biology, tells a story of a unique group of birds that originated in Europe, passed through Asia and North...
View ArticleDiabetes drugs’ long-term effectiveness: a new study
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are seeking volunteers for a study that compares the long-term benefits and risks of four widely used diabetes drugs. The drugs...
View ArticleMetabolism may have existed before people actually did
In a study funded by the Wellcome Trust and the European Research Council researchers at the University of Cambridge reconstructed the chemical make-up of the Earth’s earliest ocean in the laboratory....
View ArticleThe 13 billion-year evolution of the universe, crammed into a four-minute video
The 13 billion-year evolution of the universe,crammed into a four-minute video A massive computer simulation has produced a model of the universe’s evolution with new accuracy in some important...
View ArticleMiddle-class social traits of thrift, docility, nonviolence have been...
Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than...
View ArticleScientists may be wrong about new ‘Nobel level’ Big Bang theory
It was just weeks ago that astronomers announced a major, double-barreled discovery: using a super-sensitive microwave telescope known as BICEP2, they had seen evidence of gravity waves that roiled...
View ArticleStill many unanswered questions about the origin of our universe and the...
Neutrinos are tiny, neutral elementary particles that, contrary to the standard model of physics, have been proven to have mass. One possible explanation for this mass could be that neutrinos are...
View ArticleWhat a 66-million-year-old forest fire reveals about the last days of the...
As far back as the time of the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago, forests recovered from fires in the same manner they do today, according to a team of researchers from McGill University and the Royal...
View ArticleBirds may not have evolved from dinosaurs
The re-examination of a sparrow-sized fossil from China challenges the commonly held belief that birds evolved from ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs that gained the ability to fly. The birdlike...
View ArticleThere is 4,000,000,000-year-old chemistry in cells today
Genesis Revisited: Is Modern Science Catching Up With Ancient Knowledge?Parts of the primordial soup in which life arose have been maintained in our cells today according to scientists at the...
View ArticleInsects evolved ultrasonic hearing abilities over millennia
A grant of £250,000 from The Leverhulme Trust has been awarded to a team of scientists led by the University of Lincoln, UK, to study how a group of insects evolved incredible ultrasonic hearing...
View ArticleSorry, the statute of limitations on assault is 219 million years
Tooth serves as evidence of 220 million-year-old attack A tooth challenges beliefs about how ancient reptiles lived At the beginning of the age of dinosaurs, gigantic reptiles—distant relatives of...
View ArticleThe pleasure of learning new words
In a study published in the journal Current Biology, researchers from the University of Barcelona (UB), the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) and the Otto von Guericke University...
View ArticleMassive tectonic event a half-billion years ago may have triggered explosive...
AUSTIN, Texas— A new analysis of geologic history may help solve the riddle of the “Cambrian explosion,” the rapid diversification of animal life in the fossil record 530 million years ago that has...
View ArticleWhy men have better navigational skills
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 13, 2014 – A University of Utah study of two African tribes found evidence that men evolved better navigation ability than women because men with better spatial skills – the...
View ArticlePrehistoric conflict hastened human brain’s capacity for collaboration, study...
KNOXVILLE – Warfare not only hastened human technological progress and vast social and political changes, but may have greatly contributed to the evolutionary emergence of humans’ high intelligence...
View ArticleFirst evidence of milk consumption in ancient dental plaque
Led by a University of Oklahoma professor, an international team of researchers has discovered the first evidence of milk consumption in the ancient dental calculus–a mineralized dental plaque–of...
View ArticleEarliest primates lived in trees
Newswise — GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Say “primate” and most people wouldn’t think of a tree-dwelling, squirrel-like creature that weighs no more than a deck of playing cards, but a new study suggests that...
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