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Yale University investigators have discovered that children suffering from a disorder associated with autism and learning disabilities do not display a certain pattern of gene activity, which affects areas of the brain in charge of handling decision-making and language.
What makes this research so interesting is the... |
16 May 2012
11:18 GMT |
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The horse has a rich evolutionary history, having first appeared about 50 million years ago. Since that time, it underwent a number of significant changes, especially in terms of size. A team of researchers has just published a new investigation that sheds more light on how this happened.
When the first horse appear... |
24 February 2012
03:10 GMT |
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Though climate change in its current form is a modern issue, instances of global warming did occur in the past. Now, investigators say that studying how ancient people dealt with this problem may provide us with some guidance today.
Historians were especially interested in seeing how people of the North – Vik... |
20 February 2012
09:51 GMT |
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As an interesting example of how 11,000 years of cohabitation can trump millions of years of common history, a group of scientists has recently found that chimpanzees are not as good at understanding us, or what we want, as dogs are.
The animals were put to an extremely simple test – a human pointed at an obj... |
10 February 2012
11:06 GMT |
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A collaboration of experts from the University of Minnesota (UMN) says that it was recently able to shed more light on one of the most mysterious and important processes that allowed single-cells organisms to develop into multicellular clusters.
This took place more than 500 million years ago, but exactly how the t... |
17 January 2012
03:13 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the University of California in Davis (UCD) announces the discovery of a series of mechanisms that allows our brains to remain alert, by adapting itself to cues our environment throws at us.
These cues include natural events, social situations, language, emotions experienced by others an... |
13 January 2012
09:39 GMT |
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Researchers were recently able to confirm one of the most important presuppositions about why certain species of deep-sea microorganisms glow in the dark. Apparently, the bacteria do so because they can then get a free ride to other parts of the ocean, inside the bellies of fish and other marine creatures.
The pro... |
28 December 2011
05:04 GMT |
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Psychologists from the University of Texas in Austin (UTA) say that individuals looking for mates are experiencing a type of self-deception that may, oddly enough, increase their chances at playing the mating game successfully.
For starters, women have been proven to constantly underestimate the amount of interest ... |
15 December 2011
04:21 GMT |
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Investigators have determined in a new study that certain types of frogs are able to encode information about how large their burrows are into the calls they send out to prospective mates. Their real estate thus becomes an extra reason for females to select them over their rivals.
This behavior is especially obviou... |
7 December 2011
09:20 GMT |
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Researchers have known for quite some time that certain parts of the human body are more susceptible to being influenced by environmental changes than others, but the reason why this happens has thus far eluded them. In a new study, experts finally managed to come up with an answer to this riddle.
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22 November 2011
06:38 GMT |
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Researchers established that animal and plant populations in areas of the world most likely to be affected by climate change in the very near future will have to adapt to their new environment at the same speed. If this is not an option, then they will have to abandon their territories just as fast.
This holds true... |
4 November 2011
05:43 GMT |
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Scientists have determined in a new study that coral reefs of the same species display particular genetic and morphologic characteristics, which appear to be particular to their standard locations. In other words, same-species corals living at different depths are very different from each other as a result. The inves... |
17 October 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Investigators at the Brown University have recently determined in a new study that plants may not be entirely helpless in the face of climate change, as many previously thought. While animal species can move to new environments, vegetation apparently prefers to adapt its genetic code to face challenges.
As global ... |
7 October 2011
03:23 GMT |
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Investigators at the University of Sao Paolo, in Brazil, led by expert André Martins, say that a new computer simulation they conducted on the process of human aging revealed that the phenomenon has striking resemblances to an evolutionary adaptation.
The reason behind this is very simple, even though a lit... |
27 September 2011
03:07 GMT |
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In a study conducted on doctors who are constantly exposed to radiations, scientists have determined that the human body has the ability to develop defenses that counteract the negative effects of radiations on healthy cells.This ability takes a lot of time to enter effect, and only applies to people who are exposed ... |
24 August 2011
10:48 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that evolution in modern humans has entered into full gear. Over the past 40,000 years or so, experts show, the rate at which our species evolves has accelerated remarkably.The new results are in direct contradiction with the conclusions of other... |
23 June 2011
09:49 GMT |
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CD Projekt RED has officially announced that it is working on a Xbox 360 version of its role playing game The Witcher 2 which is set to be launched before the end of the year and will come complete with all the patches and the downloadable content that will be launched on the PC until then.Rumors about the Xbox 360 W... |
3 June 2011
09:52 GMT |
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Biologists believe that the accelerating pace of evolution humans are currently undergoing is taking its toll on our bodies, primarily through promoting the appearance of conditions such as autism and autoimmune disorders. Instances of people suffering from these once-rare conditions have gone through the roof over t... |
29 March 2011
08:15 GMT |
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A group of investigators recently discovered that some organisms may outlive others, even if they are less adapted to their environments than the latter. The finding came as a shock for evolutionary biologists, who have now set out to clear this mystery.The theory of evolution through natural selection was first prop... |
23 March 2011
05:54 GMT |
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The movie adaptation of the BioShock series of first-person shooters is pretty much dead in the water, as the director of the whole project, Gore Verbinski, revealed that he was off the whole thing because the movie studios wooldn't give him funding to realize his own version of the underwater city of Rapture.
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17 February 2011
02:30 GMT |
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Investigators have recently proved in a series of experiments that the evolution of shelled animals can be influenced by external factors that have little to do with natural selection.The new work may reignite a decades-old scientific debate concerning the development and evolution of a wide class of shelled animals.... |
9 October 2010
06:03 GMT |
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Researchers have discovered that a type of religious ritual taking place in Mexico is having a direct effect on the fish population on which it is applied. In the southern parts of the country, indigenous populations believe, as they did for centuries, that they must ask the gods for sufficient amounts of rain throug... |
13 September 2010
11:17 GMT |
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Over the past couple of decades, global warming has made its presence felt more and more, and species have been forced to adapt under this influence. The evolution has now been proven by a genetic study of mosquitoes. Researchers at the University of Oregon investigated the fine-scale genetic structure of Wyeomyia sm... |
25 August 2010
04:46 GMT |
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One of the things that stand out most about Tibet is that the country is located at a very high altitude. The air there is therefore very thin, and visitors find it difficult to breathe. As such, altitude sickness is very common among visitors and tourists. In a paper published in the May 13 issue of the top journal ... |
8 June 2010
03:09 GMT |
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According to researchers, it may be that past instances of global warming had a huge impact on small mammal communities as well. For example, during the last Ice Age, it is estimated that the soaring temperatures killed off about one third of mouse species. This is the same event that led to the extinction of woolly ... |
24 May 2010
03:43 GMT |
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The hammerhead shark is arguably one of the most peculiar animals in the world, especially in terms of how it looks. It eyes are located far away from each other, giving it a face to laugh at. Researchers have been fascinated with the chain of evolutionary changes that led to this fish developing in the manner it did... |
20 May 2010
10:04 GMT |
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Researchers have recently determined that small children are capable of learning very quickly even while sleeping. While this may seem bizarre at first, it actually makes a lot of sense from an evolutionary perspective, given the fact that infants spend the vast majority of their time sleeping. The ability to process... |
18 May 2010
06:01 GMT |
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One of the most active areas in medical research at this point is the development of brain computer interfaces (BCI) that would allow patients to control a cursor on a computer screen, or an automated wheelchair with a robotic arm. Sensors hooked directly on the cortex pick up neural signals, which are then picked up... |
16 February 2010
04:46 GMT |
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Birds are lucky. There is no other way to put it, considering that one of the only things standing between them and extinction is their ability to keep their migration schedule mobile. If it weren't for that, then they would have been caught off-guard by the sudden shift in climate patterns that the planet is ex... |
29 January 2010
08:43 GMT |
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At this point in time, there are very few people that walk barefoot. All major competitions have specific regulations about which type of athletic or running shoes to wear, so most athletes comply with those rules. But a growing body of pieces of evidence seems to suggest that wearing special shoes while running or j... |
28 January 2010
04:46 GMT |
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In another example of the fine work natural selection puts forward when it comes to protecting the survival of the fittest, researchers have demonstrated that monarch butterflies have evolved to the impressive sizes they have today in order to become able to travel thousands of miles as they migrate. Long-distance fl... |
27 January 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Scientists investigating the green sea slug have made some incredible discoveries. It would appear that the creature has “stolen” numerous genes from plants during the course of its evolution, which means that it is now the only creature in the world that can produce chlorophyll. The finding is remarkable... |
12 January 2010
05:46 GMT |
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Although they look stunningly beautiful, with their long necks stretching over the top of trees, giraffes also posed a difficult challenge for evolution, in terms of making them capable of surviving. What is beautiful about them – the long and thin neck – also comes with a disadvantage, and namely the fac... |
21 November 2009
05:05 GMT |
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More than 8,000 years ago, in the Holocene Period, the Ross Sea Embayment was covered in a thick layer of ice, which prevented a too large diversity of species from gaining a strong foothold in the region. As the ice progressively retreated, elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) adopted the emergent habitat and spread ar... |
10 July 2009
05:33 GMT |
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Lately, with the influence of global warming rising worldwide, animal experts said that the rise in temperatures might catch many species off-guard, as in unable to modify their behavioral patterns fast enough to survive. They also said that this situation would lead to a massive extinction among species, especially ... |
4 June 2009
04:17 GMT |
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With no disregard to the general concept related to the reason why the first hominids descended from trees (foraging), two scientists twist the story plot with their new findings: humans have been designed for running.Evolution seems to be the topic of the day here at Softpedia Science News. But unlike the articles a... |
16 September 2008
11:13 GMT |
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