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The new study indicates that the reason why a person may choose to show the amount they have donated but conceal their identity is because it may act as a signal informing others looking to donate of the charity’s quality and worthiness

Scientists Explain why People Make Large Donations Anonymously

May 22, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers at the University of Bristol’s Center for Market and Public Organization who studied why people choose to make large donations to charity...

A new study finds a decline in snow and ice on Mount Everest, second peak from left, and the national park surrounding it (Pavel Novak)

Researchers Find Decline in Snow, Ice on Mount Everest

May 20, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Italian scientists have found abundant evidence that the world’s tallest peak is shedding its frozen cloak. A new study finds a decline in snow and ice...

Reconstruction of Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus (John Gurche / Myartprints.com)

Tiny Ear Bone Fossils Shed New Light on Human Ancestors

May 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to an international team of anthropologists led by Binghamton University, tiny ear bones from two species of early human ancestors in South Africa...

Location of the Kanjera South site along the modern shoreline of Lake Victoria, Kenya (Ferraro JV et al)

Earliest Evidence of Hunting by Human Ancestors Found in Kenya

May 13, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

New research led by Prof Joseph Ferraro from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has provided the oldest known evidence of hunting, scavenging and meat eating...

Ice Age people living in Europe might have used forms of some common words including I, you, we, thou, not, that, to give, who, that in some cases could still be recognized today (Neanderthal Museum, Germany)

Linguists Trace European, Asian Languages Back to One Proto-Language

May 10, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Languages spoken across Europe and Asia are descended from a proto-language that was used 15,000 to 10,000 years ago, say researchers led by Dr Andrew...

This map shows regions of the SMU that chemists have explored and the ones they haven't (Virshup et. al.)

All Possible Drug-like Chemical Compounds Mapped

May 6, 2013 by News Staff

U.S. researchers have designed a new computer algorithm that can model and catalogue the entire set of carbon-containing molecules, and created a map of...

Habiba Kiongoli, left, and Hawa Nyakisoma, right, recording Ndengeleko stories in Tanzania (Eva-Marie Ström / University of Gothenburg)

European Linguist Explores Endangered African Language Ndengeleko

May 6, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new doctoral thesis by Eva-Marie Ström from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden is the first attempt ever to explore Ndengeleko, a language that...

Researchers Try to Explain How Brain Works

May 2, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

In two studies published in Physical Review Letters and PNAS, British mathematicians have attempted to explain how the structure of the brain relates to...

Homo floresiensis Shared Common Ancestor with Humans, Brain Study Shows

Apr 29, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo and the National Museum of Nature and Science in Ibaraki have precisely measured the brain size of Homo...

The layers of the Earth and their temperatures (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)

Scientists: Earth’s Core Hotter than Previously Thought

Apr 29, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

French researchers have determined that the temperature of the Earth’s core is 10,800 degrees Fahrenheit (6,000 oC) – about 1,800 oF (1,000 oC)...

This image shows phylogenetic network of 39 prehistoric mitochondrial genomes sorted into two groupings - Early Neolithic, left, and Mid-to-Late Neolithic, right. Node colors represent archaeological cultures. LBK - Linear Pottery Culture (Paul Brotherton et al)

DNA Study Reveals Genetic History of Europe

Apr 24, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has used ancient DNA recovered from human remains dating from up to 5,500 BC to reconstruct the first detailed genetic...

Left: schematic structure of a toxin nanosponge. Right: zoomed-in view of a single toxin-absorbed nanosponge, scale bar - 20 nm (Che-Ming J. Hu et al / Zhang Research Lab)

Nanosponges Could Soak up Toxins Released by Infections, Venom

Apr 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has created ‘nanosponges’ capable of removing a broad class of toxins from the bloodstream,...

The Shoulder Dress embodies the complexity of the design process when designing for active fibers. The collection shows garments in their multiple stages, low and high energy, enabled by future fibers and transformative textiles (© Ronald Borshan)

New Research Shines Light on Future of Fashion

Apr 19, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new research headed by Prof Joanna Berzowska from the Concordia University’s Department of Design and Computation Arts brings the future of fashion...

The California sea hare, Aplysia californica

Neuroscientists Reverse Memory Loss in Animal Brain Cells

Apr 18, 2013 by News Staff

A team of neuroscientists from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston reversed memory loss in nerve cells of the California sea hare (Aplysia...

This image shows Australopithecus sediba, center, compared to the skeleton of a modern human, left, and a chimpanzee, right (Lee Berger / University of the Witwatersrand)

Research Reveals How Australopithecus sediba Walked, Chewed, Moved

Apr 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

New research appearing in six papers in the journal Science describes how the hominid Australopithecus sediba walked, chewed, and moved around 2 million...

This image shows global surface air temperature anomalies four million years ago (A. V. Fedorov et al)

Climate Models Challenged as Scientists Identify Ancient Pool of Warm Water

Apr 12, 2013 by News Staff

A giant mass of warm water that stretched out from Indonesia over to Africa and South America about 4 million years ago suggests current climate models...

Rosemary, Rosmarinus officinalis, at the Botanical Garden KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany (H. Zell / CC BY-SA 3.0)

New Study: Rosemary Aroma May Improve Prospective Memory

Apr 12, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a study conducted by Dr Jemma McCready and Dr Mark Moss from the University of Northumbria, England, the aroma of rosemary oil may improve...

Thunderstorms can produce an exotic kind of electrical breakdown that involves high-energy electrons and their anti-matter equivalent called positrons (University of Minnesota)

Scientists Explain Invisible ‘Dark Lightning’

Apr 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from the Florida Institute of Technology’s Department of Physics and Space Science have developed a new model of exactly how terrestrial...

Scientists have found a field of what could be the world's largest seafloor pockmarks. The largest of these crater-like structures is 6.8 miles in diameter and 328 feet deep (GNS Science)

Mysterious Giant Crater-like Structures Found near New-Zealand

Apr 9, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A multinational team of researchers led by marine geophysicist Dr Bryan Davy from GNS Science has found what may be the world’s biggest pockmarks...