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According to a new study led by Dr Diana van Heemst of the Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands, low levels of vitamin D may be associated...

A technology called the Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) System for Ancient Documentary Artifacts has brought scientists closer to cracking the...

A study led by Prof Kristen Hawkes at the University of Utah provides new mathematical support for the ‘grandmother hypothesis,’ a theory that humans...

According to a team of British scientists, the interaction between the region of the brain that processes sound – the auditory cortex – and...

A team of Australian scientists has proposed a new mathematical theory to explain the mysterious phenomenon known as ball lightning. Sightings of ball...

Canadian researchers have provided new evidence that gamblers interpret near-misses as frustrating losses rather than near-wins. This frustration stimulates...

According to a new study led by Dr Gillian Forrester of the University of Sussex, a predominance to be right-handed is not a uniquely human trait but one...

A team of Lund University scientists has discovered that the accelerated learning of foreign languages can lead to the growth of language-related regions...

According to a multinational team of scientists led by Dr Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo of Complutense University, Madrid, a fragment of a child’s skull...

Dutch linguists have developed a new method using Bayesian phylogenetic approaches to analyze the evolution of structural features in more than 50 language...

Scientists at the Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, have discovered that people with psychopathic tendencies have an impaired sense of smell,...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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