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Investigators have determined in a new study that the amount of brain shrinkage that humans exhibit as a result of normal aging is unparalleled in the natural world. The conclusion was drawn after scientists conducted a comparative analysis between humans and chimps.The researchers looked at how the brain evolved wit... |
26 July 2011
06:02 GMT |
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A collaboration of paleontologists from the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) and the Smithsonian Institution determined that gray whales were able to survive past cycles of global warming and cooling by adopting a more varied diet. When their very survival hung in the balance, the marine animals turned to e... |
7 July 2011
09:59 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Bristol, the University of Oxford and the Leiden University, all in the United Kingdom, recently took an interest in studying the first animals ever to sport jaw bones. Their latest foray into this field is detailed in the top scientific journal Nature. Jawed animals first appear... |
7 July 2011
08:40 GMT |
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After the first flying reptiles – pterosaurs – took to the skies tens to hundreds of millions of years ago, birds emerged in the world as well. Despite the fact that they were in direct competition with each other, the two groups continued to thrive, evolve and diversify in parallel.Fossil records show th... |
7 July 2011
08:01 GMT |
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Starting with tomorrow's Alpha 2, the upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system will feature the highly anticipated Mozilla Thunderbird 5.0 as default mail client. We know that some of you Ubuntu lovers out there wanted Thunderbird as the default mail client for Oneiric, but there are many others ... |
6 July 2011
13:01 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the University of Minnesota in Twin Cities managed to prove that highly-structured organisms can develop from inferior ones, when they watched single-celled microbes in a test tube evolve into multicellular lifeforms. The latter were prefect capable of reproduction, which means that they... |
23 June 2011
10:17 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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Video game publisher THQ says that it has big plans for the upcoming UFC Undisputed 3 title, aiming to make sure that it deliver enough new content in order to attract all fans of the first game in the series that have been disappointed by the second entry.The first UFC Undisputed video game was one of the biggest ne... |
13 June 2011
16:31 GMT |
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In a new study, experts have determined that organisms cannot adapt to the rapid pace at which our world is warming. The researchers say that even less complex lifeforms – which pass through multiple generations in relatively-short time frames – have a very difficult time doing so. In past investigations,... |
9 June 2011
04:41 GMT |
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Humans, as well as other species, are superstitious creatures, even though there is no evolutionary benefit to being so. Or is there one, researchers ask, in light of new studies that explain how the behavior caught root and endured over the ages. In humans, superstition is more widespread than in other species. Many... |
8 June 2011
04:20 GMT |
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A massive island located to the east of the African coast is proving to be one of the most interesting hot spots for finding new species. Since 1999, experts managed to identify more than 615 new species living on the island. A new species is discovered in Madagascar, on average, about once per week. This rhythm has ... |
6 June 2011
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Scientists say that mutations which aid evolution tend to interfere with each other's actions, when the effects they are causing are beneficial to the host organism. This might help explain why the rate of improvement in organisms is usually high early on, only to decrease after some timeIn past studies, experts... |
3 June 2011
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Researchers have just identified an insect that apparently regained its wings, after having evolved to shed them more than 200 million years ago. The extravagant headgear on small cicada-like bugs called treehoppers was established to be a pair of wing-like appendages, experts say.The new discovery is very interestin... |
6 May 2011
09:33 GMT |
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Experts with the Stowers Institute for Medical Research announce the creation of a new, all-female lizard species. The animals were produced in a scientific laboratory, and their “genesis” is not entirely unique – a similar speciation process is known to have taken place in nature as well. Though ex... |
4 May 2011
10:02 GMT |
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University of Colorado archaeologists say that the results of their latest investigations seem to suggest that humans developed their super-brain sometime around 75,000 years ago. Since then, our ever-developing cortices allowed us to become the dominant species on the planet. Yet, the data also indicate that the afo... |
22 April 2011
08:06 GMT |
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I'm in sixteenth place out of sixteen competitors and I'm feeling fine, confident that even though it’s the third lap, a combination of good choices when it comes to using the boost, clear-headed driving and a touch of luck will see me reach second or third place before this race is over. This is Mot... |
20 April 2011
18:41 GMT |
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A team of astronomers has just proposed a new explanation for the Fermi Paradox, which is the contradiction between the hypothesized number of alien worlds that may exist in the Universe and the lack of evidence we detect to support this estimate. Experts now believe they know why this happens. Basic calculations sho... |
19 April 2011
04:43 GMT |
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Strangely, few people thought that the mighty dinosaurs may have had such a common problem as lice. Yet experts seem to believe that this was precisely the case, especially as far as the feathered of the giant lizards went. Dinosaurs are now believed to have been affected by the same type of parasites as young childr... |
6 April 2011
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There is among creationists a group of people who support the idea of intelligent design, which basically states that the process of evolution, in the Universe and on Earth, was guided by a higher power. Now, researchers demonstrated belief in ID is oftentimes motivated by the fear of death.
Those who believe in t... |
2 April 2011
05:51 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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Millions of years ago, the planet's biosphere underwent a process known as oxygenation, during which oxygen concentrations in its atmosphere and oceans spiked. Experts are now starting to shed light on the mystery surrounding this event. Before oxygenation occurred, the atmosphere had a significantly different c... |
26 March 2011
07:56 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
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is currently funding a series of research that is focused on monitoring the evolution of a species of butterflies that researchers believe is about to divide into two.These insects may be on the verge of splitting into two distinct species, which means that members of one will... |
1 March 2011
09:47 GMT |
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Even with MWC 2011 hosting the launch of many products, PC and PC hardware makers, like Cougar, are looking forward to CeBIT, when they too will be able to announce their latest creations, such as new PSUs and cases.Now that the trade show focused on mobile devices is ending, IT companies are looking to the future a... |
17 February 2011
03:49 GMT |
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While digging in central Israel, at a cave near a site called Rosh Haain, researchers discovered no less than eight small teeth. Subsequent analysis revealed that they belonged to humans, and so this finding is starting to bring into question the origins of the first humans, as well as the time when they appeared.Ant... |
9 February 2011
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In an interesting new discovery, researchers found that a group of insects did not evolve at all over the past 100 million years. The group is the ancestor of some insects that still live today, and the research shows little differences between the creatures living today and their forefathers.The fact that these larg... |
9 February 2011
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A group of investigators managed to identify a type of internal body clock that functions 24 hours a day, in the cells of all species, regardless of complexity. The mechanism can be found in human neurons as well as in algal cells and poplar trees, for example. The same research revealed that this circadian clock in ... |
28 January 2011
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Undoubtedly, when our ancestors first climbed down of their respective trees, learning to survive on the ground was something that they had to do very fast, or perish. As such, learning to throw things very far and accurate turned out to be a great trait. Experts now show its neural mechanisms.Throwing objects at a l... |
24 January 2011
03:13 GMT |
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In the not too distant future, experts believe, humankind might experience what is known as Singularity. This concept refers to the time when human creations produced via advanced technologies will exceed us in every regard, both intellectually and creatively.What will happen beyond that time is as unimaginable to us... |
11 January 2011
09:50 GMT |
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Given the wealth of recent studies showing that it wouldn't be at all impossible for other planets to host forms of life, it stands to reason that the international scientific community has began wondering whether actually going out of our way to contact extraterrestrial civilizations is indeed the way to go.For... |
10 January 2011
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After more than 20 years of drilling in the Antarctic ice sheet, Russian explorers are getting ready to penetrate the surface of Lake Vostok, and underground body of water that has been covered by ice millions of years ago. Their drill bit is a short distance away from its target. According to estimates, it's be... |
8 January 2011
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Developer BioWare has decided to offer fans of the Mass Effect series a free look at the upcoming new comic that it plans to deliver based on the universe, focusing on the earlier years of the Illusive Man, the leader of the Cerberus and one of the most important players in the second game in the series, serving as a... |
5 January 2011
03:10 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Florida in Gainesville (UFG) were recently able to gain more insight into the origins of angiosperms, a group of flowering plants that make up more than 90 percent of all land-based vegetation on the planet. The reason why they evolved to be so successful in covering the vast majority ... |
14 December 2010
06:34 GMT |
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In a fortunate turn of event, the latest decision from a Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education subcommittee supports teaching industry-standard biology texts in the state's schools. The decision cripples creationists' latest attempt of pushing their agenda on the nation's school system.... |
9 December 2010
09:55 GMT |
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For many years, scientists have been wondering as to whether the environment in which the first lifeforms evolved on Earth was hot or cold. In a new study, experts shows that the time evolution requires to work its magic is reduced considerably if the processes take place in warm environment.One of the main implicati... |
3 December 2010
04:36 GMT |
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Three hundred million years ago, global warming decimated the Earth's tropical rainforests, and ironically, allowed reptiles to evolve.During the Carboniferous Period, when Europe and North America laid on the equator and were covered in steamy tropical rainforests, a global warming triggered a rapid collapse of... |
30 November 2010
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In a new investigation, researchers argue that a common group of bacteria, that can readily be found inside sewage treatment plants, may hold clues as to the origins of eukaryotic cells. These are cells that have a nucleus containing DNA. The team behind the new work believes that the microorganisms they analyzed are... |
27 November 2010
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Researchers have begun taking a keen interest lately in a species of plant that is believed to be the oldest blooming flower in the world. Its origins can be traced directly to the earliest flowers that appeared on Earth, some 130 million years ago.The most ancient flowering plant still alive today is called Amb... |
26 November 2010
06:05 GMT |
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There are few ideas in the world that had groundbreaking implications on the way we understand science. The microscope, the telescope and some theories are examples of this, but now researchers are proposing a new approach to looking at life itself, and at how it developed. One of the major realizations that we had w... |
22 November 2010
05:18 GMT |
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Cavemen fought for their food and were rather aggressive when they were close to a hunk of meat, but apparently this behavior no longer exists, found a researcher at McGill University’s Department of Psychology.Frank Kachanoff is a researcher very interested in evolution, who was very surprised to see that the ... |
8 November 2010
03:42 GMT |
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A new statistical model suggests that the evolutionary break-up between humans and chimpanzees occurred 8 million years ago, 3 million years earlier than what was previously thought.For decades, paleontologists agreed that humans evolved some 5 or 6 million years ago, and their estimations relied on fossils.The only ... |
5 November 2010
13:47 GMT |
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A new study carried out by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Lausanne (UNIL), in collaboration with Harvard Medical School, shows that the human brain evolves in a lifetime from a good network to a super advanced one.The research compares the brain of a child to e... |
28 October 2010
02:53 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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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty played it safe. Blizzard created a real time strategy sequel that fans waited for the better part of 10 years but made very small actual changes to the game formula. Clicks per minute were still crucial to multiplayer success, counters needed to be learned and resource gatherer protectio... |
2 October 2010
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that even slight changes in the social behavior patterns of animals can eventually led to the appearance of massive migrations.Experts say that the variations may arrange themselves in such a manner that they trigger a cascade of events that eventually leads to spe... |
17 September 2010
09:22 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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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that placental mammals have larger brain sizes because their parents employ useful strategies that promote this growth.Researchers tried to find a connection between body size and brain size, but they only manged to do so for placental mammals. This is very peculia... |
7 September 2010
04:16 GMT |
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The theory of evolution might be obsolete as biologist develops a system that can predict that the next step will be a technical living form that will be able to pass its experience and knowledge to the next generation.Darwin’s theory of evolution focuses on the best adapted organisms but leaves out the success... |
3 September 2010
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The latest discoveries made by paleontologists are always said to “rewrite evolutionary history”, but is this really true and mankind has learned nothing about its past?A few researchers at the University of Bristol wanted to find out exactly how strong is our understanding of evolution.The team led by Dr... |
1 September 2010
04:58 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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