Other Sciences News

Feb 1, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Using Google logs, an international team of scientists has found that in 2012 Germans searched for the future on the Internet more than any other nation. The researchers from the UK, Switzerland and the United States looked at the number of Google searches people conducted in a given year for both the preceding year and the next year to come. They call the ratio the ‘Future Orientation Index.’ Their previous study, published in the Scientific...

Jan 30, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of chemists from Finland and Canada has been able to identify the mechanism that enables some non-metal compounds to mimic the reactivity of their...

Jan 29, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a new study, conducted by Prof Nicolas Guéguen of the University of South Brittany, France, if you are serious about your flirting and hope...

Jan 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists has sequenced nuclear and mitochondrial DNA extracted from remains of a 40,000-year-old human found at the Tianyuan...

Jan 22, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a new study published today in the online journal mBio, male scientists are far more likely to commit fraud than females and the fraud occurs...

Jan 16, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to British researchers, the idea of creating networks of members and sharing information dates back to the 16th century. The discovery was made...

Dec 18, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Emotion helps us recognize words more accurately and quicker, however, we do not remember emotionally intoned speech as accurately as neutral speech, according...

Dec 13, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Dr Susan Hayes, a facial anthropologist and an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Wollongong in Australia, has reported results of the...

Dec 12, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

While most Americans replace the T sound in words like ‘mountain’ through their noses, Utahns replace it through their mouths, say linguists at the...

Dec 6, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new study by renowned Wits University archaeologist Prof Christopher Henshilwood provides first detailed summary of South African Middle Stone Age cultural...

Nov 6, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

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...

Oct 29, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

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

Oct 24, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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

Oct 15, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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

Oct 12, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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

Oct 11, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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

Oct 10, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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...

Oct 10, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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

Oct 4, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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

Sep 24, 2012 by News Staff

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