Other Sciences News

Apr 24, 2012 by News Staff

Chinese researchers have revealed how surnames can act as a genetic stamp, allowing to trace lineage and understand the migrations and historical events. “When it comes to surnames the Chinese people are unique. 1.28 billion people share 7,327 surnames. In fact the 100 most common names account for 85% of the population,” said Dr. Jaiwei Chen of Beijing Normal University, a lead author of the study published in the American Journal of...

Apr 18, 2012 by News Staff

Dr. Marcia DiStaso of the Penn State University has found that sixty percent of Wikipedia articles about companies contain factual errors. Wikipedia’s...

Apr 13, 2012 by News Staff

A researcher from the Columbia University in New York has claimed the possibility that advanced versions of Tyrannosaurus rex and other dinosaurs –...

Apr 6, 2012 by James Freeman

A team of scientists has established a clear cause-and-effect relationship between rising levels of carbon dioxide and global warming that ended the last...

Apr 5, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of researchers analyzing Google search queries has found that Internet users from countries with a higher per capita gross domestic...

Mar 14, 2012 by James Freeman

An international team of researchers has discovered fossils of a previously unknown Stone Age people in southwest China. An artist's reconstruction...

Mar 9, 2012 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the Catholic University of Brasilia, A Coruña University in Spain and the James Cook University in Australia has found that...

Mar 5, 2012 by News Staff

Researchers have for the first time demonstrated that gravity plays a role in the formation of molecular aggregates, and that it can even be used to make...

Feb 29, 2012 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and...

Feb 28, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the University of Warwick and Indiana University has found that humans move between patches in their memory using the same strategy...

Feb 10, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a team of researchers from the Northumbria University, UK, their new study could explain why Fabio Capello recently quit as England manager...

Feb 1, 2012 by News Staff

A team of UK researchers has revealed how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages. The moss Physcomitrella...

Feb 1, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the University of Montreal has revealed that emotional responses differ between men and women, and that a woman’s memory of...

Jan 6, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

For the first time, Canadian researchers have suggested that the Earth’s most severe mass extinction was caused by an influx of mercury into the eco-system. In...

Dec 18, 2011 by James Freeman

British scientists have proved a hypothesis that said human fine body hair plays a defensive function against parasites such as bed bugs and fleas. The...

Dec 5, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers have found that people with bad credit scores are more impatient, stated in a press release from the Association for Psychological Science. The...

Dec 1, 2011 by News Staff

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced today new proposed names for elements 114 and 116, stated in a press release from the Lawrence...

Dec 1, 2011 by James Freeman

Researchers have found that parents of newborns show poorer adjustment to their new role if they believe society expects them to be perfect mothers and...

Nov 30, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that the atmosphere of Earth just 500 million years after its creation was not a methane-filled...

Nov 29, 2011 by News Staff

Norwegian researchers have found that even small changes in pub and bar closing hours seem to affect the number of violent incidents, stated in a press...