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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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...