Other Sciences News

Jun 13, 2013 by News Staff

According to new research reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, the geographic context in which a language is spoken may directly impact its phonological form. Locations of the languages analyzed in the study: dark circles represent languages with ejectives, clear circles represent those without ejectives. The inset shows six major inhabitable areas of high elevation: 1 – North American cordillera; 2 – Andes; 3 – Southern African...

Jun 12, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

British ophthalmologists have discovered a new layer in the cornea, the clear, dome-shaped surface that covers the front of the eye. Left: schematic diagram...

Jun 12, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

New genetic research reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences refutes a recent theory that there is evidence for the presence of...

Jun 7, 2013 by News Staff

The first definitive case of a fibrous dysplastic neoplasm in a 120,000-year-old Neanderthal rib from the site of Krapina in present-day Croatia reveals...

Jun 6, 2013 by News Staff

According to research led by Dr Magali Pujol from the University of Lorraine in France, bubbles of water found in Archaean hydrothermal quartz in Australia...

Jun 5, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Psychological Science, the width of blood vessels in the retina – a light-sensitive layer at the...

Jun 4, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Four new studies of carbon isotopes in fossilized tooth enamel from early hominins, including Australopithecus afarensis, Paranthropus boisei and Kenyanthropus...

May 27, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study led by Dr Michael Melnick from the University of Rochester, people with high IQ scores aren’t just more intelligent, they...

May 24, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists led by Dr Manish Arora from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have reported that they can now use fossil teeth to calculate when a...

May 23, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

In ground-breaking experiments conducted at the radioactive isotope facility ISOLDE at CERN, a multinational research team has investigated the atomic...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...