Other Sciences News

Sep 20, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists at the Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, have discovered that people with psychopathic tendencies have an impaired sense of smell, which points to inefficient processing in the front part of the brain. Did Othello have a poor sense of smell? Othello and Desdemona, a painting by Christian Kohler, 1859 Psychopathy is a broad term that covers a severe personality disorder characterized by callousness, manipulation, sensation-seeking...

Sep 19, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists has used a new empirical model to explore how gold atoms bond to other atoms. Gold crystals (Alchemist-hp, www.pse-mendelejew.de...

Sep 19, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A study led by Dr Christopher Karpowitz of Brigham Young University shows that having a seat at the table is very different than having a voice, for women. Scientists...

Sep 18, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dutch nanotechnologists have developed a new material that is not only extremely water-repellent but also extremely oil-repellent. The newly developed...

Aug 24, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An innovative computational approach applied by an international team of linguists sheds new light on the origins of Indo-European languages. Map shows...

Aug 21, 2012 by News Staff

According to an international team of anthropologists, an ancient skull collected from a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos is the oldest...

Aug 15, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Exciting new fossils discovered east of Lake Turkana in Kenya confirm that there were two additional species of our genus – Homo – living alongside...

Aug 14, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Cambridge researchers have raised questions about the theory that Neanderthals and modern humans at some point interbred. Their findings show that common...

Aug 10, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists has reconstructed dietary preferences of three groups of early hominins from the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. Reconstructions...

Jul 31, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists has substantially increased the age at which we can trace the emergence of modern culture, all thanks to the San people...

Jul 19, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists have discovered the first molecular evidence that Neanderthals not only ate a range of cooked plant foods, but also understood its nutritional...

Jul 18, 2012 by News Staff

A network of porous carbon tubes that is three-dimensionally interwoven at nano and micro level – this is the lightest material in the world. Aerographite...

Jul 17, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of Spanish paleoanthropologists has reconstructed the diet of Australopithecus anamensis, a hominid that lived in the east of the African continent...

Jul 13, 2012 by News Staff

Paleoanthropologists at the Wits Institute for Human Evolution in Johannesburg, South Africa, have announced the discovery of a large rock containing significant...

Jul 13, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has found that Native American populations arose from at least three migrations, with the majority descended entirely...

Jul 10, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists from the Aalto University in Finland has located where the sounds associated with the northern lights, or aurora borealis, are created. The...

Jul 4, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Librarians at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, have discovered a previously unknown variant of the famous map of the world printed...

Jun 29, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A new study of lake sediment cores from Sanak Island in the western Gulf of Alaska has suggested that deglaciation there from the last Ice Age took place...

Jun 25, 2012 by News Staff

A team of US researchers, including NASA scientists, has found that ancient Antarctica was much warmer and wetter than previously suspected. This artist's...

Jun 20, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers from two institutions in Patna, India, have developed an environmentally friendly approach to making silver nanoparticles. Pomegranates at...