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Over the past two million years or so, we have evolved to the point where we've reached about the maximum possible size of our brains. As anthropologists may argue, our brain capacities may actually be getting smaller, and all for a simple reason – the anatomical difficulties that birthing a large-headed c... |
17 November 2009
06:00 GMT |
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University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) neuroscientist Andrew Frew is currently in charge of a research team that plans to unlock the secret of human cognitive skills and intelligence. The way the scientists plan to do that is by carefully and methodically observing the wiring patterns inside the cortex, and h... |
21 October 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Hearts of Iron 3 arrived at the end of last week and since then much of my day has been taken up by extended playtime and by anxiously checking the official forums of the game looking for opinions, improvement ideas, reactions and, of course, the inevitable bug reports. And they all came fast and furious, with some p... |
11 August 2009
17:51 GMT |
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According to a new investigation, it would appear that most dogs have the same intelligence level as a two-year-old child, experts say. While this is true for most species, others, such as border collies, poodles and German shepherds (in this precise order), have a brain developed enough to be considered similar to t... |
10 August 2009
05:07 GMT |
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New studies on whales' behavior have come to a rather surprising conclusion – these marine animals may be as intelligent as apes are, or maybe even more. Anthropologists believe that the whales developed intelligence millions of years before the last ancestor of primates and humans did. For this reason, so... |
26 June 2009
02:58 GMT |
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While the issue of where intelligence is located has been a matter of dispute among academics, many studies seem to point to the fact that there are areas in the frontal cortex that seem to “house” this important trait. But other investigations have proven that other parts of the brain play a role in inte... |
1 April 2009
03:05 GMT |
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Just like a computer chip, the processing power that the brain requires in order to cope with challenging tasks is extracted from all around the cortex, but recent research shows that the array of processes we usually call intelligence is generally hosted only in specific spots in the organ. In other words, this is n... |
13 March 2009
06:29 GMT |
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The large primates, which are humans' closest relatives, also have the most elaborate system of communication other than our own. A new study, which surveyed gorilla populations in their natural habitat, may have found new clues as to how human language appeared and developed over time. Researchers have discover... |
10 February 2009
06:30 GMT |
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Because of the great scale on which World War II (WWII) was fought, national armies could not afford to rely on their traditional recruitment methods, and therefore often had to resort to drafts to select their combatant forces. This means that all sorts of people ended up in the military, including very smart and ve... |
19 December 2008
18:01 GMT |
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The very name of the first lunar vehicle built by the Indians, Chandrayaan-1, says a lot about their hopes and efforts for the future. This is a statement that the probe is just the first in a series of similar bold attempts, which will place India among the largely-developed super-powers of the world who have their ... |
15 December 2008
03:41 GMT |
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Assuming that Drake's equation would eventually proven right, and that there might be aliens out there (somewhere), and even that they are at least as smart as (we think) we are, the question still remains – What are the odds that we actually comprehend that we've stumbled upon a proof of alien intell... |
7 December 2008
05:31 GMT |
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A new SETI tool in the search for intelligent alien lifeforms has been built. It is called the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) and it has recently been powered up in its first stage configuration of 42 antennas. When complete, in 2025, it will feature the combined power of 350 such dishes. The project, financed by Paul A... |
13 November 2008
10:30 GMT |
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A recent experiment performed at Berkshire's University of Reading checked whether robots could resemble humans in thinking, based on text conversations. Chatbots' jokes, arguments and answers were not enough to beat a Turing test. Alan Turing was a bright British mathematician who addressed the issue ... |
13 October 2008
05:52 GMT |
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Most people would eat almost anything today, as long as it tastes good and it fills up their bellies, regardless of how healthy it is, the nutritional values or the bunch of chemicals they swallow up. No wonder that the US is currently facing a serious obesity epidemic - people suddenly forgot that food has a nutriti... |
3 July 2008
04:59 GMT |
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As it turns out it really pays to be stupid. Well, at least for flies it does. A study carried out by a team of researchers from a Swiss university revealed that dumber flies live much longer than their geeky cousins. According to the results of the study revealed today by Tadeusz Kwackei and Joep Burger at the Unive... |
4 June 2008
08:39 GMT |
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Finding inhospitable places for life on Earth is extremely difficult; just about any location you can lay your eyes on is most likely populated to some extent with microbial life, if not with other living specimens. Researchers from the Mars Astrobiology Research and Technology Experiment, MARTE for short, have recen... |
22 May 2008
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Currently, in many western countries, less than 1% of women breastfeed continuously for the first six months of the baby's life. In the UK, the category most prone to breastfeeding was found to be formed of well educated, professional women, older than 30 and mothers for the first time. The fear of ending up wit... |
6 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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For a long time we have been asking ourselves whether we are alone in the universe. The truth is that we still do not know the answer to this question, however there is a high probability that there are other life forms besides those on Earth. After all, for all we know the universe may be infinite in space-time. Nev... |
17 April 2008
04:18 GMT |
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Let's get rid of foolish misconceptions: no, men don't look for intelligent women! What they want, and most of us know it, is a blue-eyed, blond-haired woman who gains less than her boyfriend or husband, not touching this way his masculine pride (now we know why we don't find Paris attractive). The lat... |
17 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The 'bat' is only the latest of the series of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - UAV for short - designed to gather information about enemy sites and urban combat zones, capable of relaying data related to sight, sound and smell back to the command post to be used as intelligence. The 'bat' has been desig... |
14 March 2008
09:36 GMT |
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Recognize the guy in the picture? He is supposed to be an alien living somewhere in our galaxy, which will most likely pay us a visit in the near future with a warp capable ship, just to slaughter us like pigs while dressed in an invisibility cloak. Possible? Highly unlikely, according to planetary astronomer Dr Cha... |
13 March 2008
06:41 GMT |
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The higher your IQ coefficient is, the more drinks you take daily. These are the results of a research made by the Medical Research Council and published in the "American Journal of Public Health," which points that women are particularly prone to drink heavily in their thirties, if they have an over-the-average int... |
13 February 2008
04:21 GMT |
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Sex and studying do not get along. The more sex partners you have, the more prone you are to academic failure, as found by a new survey made amongst students at Cambridge University. The on-line questionnaires completed by over 1,000 undergraduates revealed that poorly performing colleges had the most sexually active... |
28 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Today, in many western countries, less than 1% of women breastfeed exclusively for the first six months of the baby's life. In UK, the categories most prone to breastfeeding were found to be well educated, professional women, older than 30 and mothers for the first time. The fear of ending up with the saggy boob... |
4 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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People give no chance to pedophiles, as they are a threat to the future generation. Pedophilia is clearly the most detested sexual deviation. And convicted pedophiles have high recidivism rates. Pedophiles seem to choose children because they are weaker and more malleable than adults. Researchers tried to explain ped... |
29 November 2007
04:47 GMT |
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Men like to make jokes on the stereotype of the dumb blond women. And now, a French team has discovered that men's mental ability plummeted when dealing with blond women, probably as they thought they had a less intelligent interlocutor. The study published in Journal of Experimental Psychology consisted in two... |
20 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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We know that we are born with a potential for intelligence and intelligence must be managed. A 60-year-old Scottish research made on 70,000 11-year-old children could explain the way lifestyle affects intelligence. Smoking, obesity, sedentarism and bad food could lead not only to physical diseases, but also to a dumb... |
15 November 2007
05:03 GMT |
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This is a breakthrough with a double meaning for the feminist party. The genes may be the same, but the brain structure makes women aspire to IQ records, while men are either geniuses or simply dumb. In everyday life, what you see is what you get...Researchers have justified this by suggesting there are twice as many... |
25 September 2007
14:16 GMT |
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We do not possess a memory center: this ability is spread over most of the brain areas. A new review made by Richard Haier of the University of California, Irvine and Rex Jung of the University of New Mexico on 37 imaging studies has revealed that human intelligence, too."Genetic research has demonstrated that intell... |
12 September 2007
04:14 GMT |
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The general conception is that chimps are smart, orangutans are dumber. But orangutans come with big surprises in many cases. It was proved that they have the same ability as chimps to learn the sign language. A new research shows that captive orangutans "play charades" to communicate with humans, pointing that the a... |
3 August 2007
02:51 GMT |
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Leeloo, the Fifth Element, could learn by heart books in a matter of seconds, but you should calm down, as real people cannot remember a thousand different things at once. This is just impossible, as a new research shows that the average person's short-term memory can only stick four items at a time.The team of ... |
13 July 2007
06:07 GMT |
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We tend to see the apes that are closer to us as being more intelligent, like chimps and bonobos, while orangutans are seen like red clowns. This conception persists despite the fact that many tests have proven a high cognitive ability in this ape. Now they astonished scientists with an Aesop's fable-like situat... |
5 July 2007
03:49 GMT |
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Who is older, Dexter or Deedee? Apparently, the answer to this question is Dexter, as revealed by a new research made on 250,000 military draftees in Norway. Firstborn children have appeared to score significantly higher in IQ tests than their younger siblings, something linked by researchers to social, not biologica... |
22 June 2007
15:31 GMT |
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Parrots remain the most popular pet birds. This is due to their fascinating colors, their intelligence, attachment to their owners and their ability to imitate the human voice, but also to their adaptability to the captive life. This is exactly what led many species to the brink of extinction, and some species are al... |
19 June 2007
15:21 GMT |
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A big brain means more intelligence. Even without adjusting the brain size to the body size, this remains valid, as found by a mix team from Grand Valley State University and the Anthropological Institute and Museum at the University of Zrich, Switzerland. "It's long been known that species with larger body siz... |
21 May 2007
09:13 GMT |
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Birdbrain is for many an insult. But researches have proven that some birds can be really intelligent, even if their intelligence is different from that of the mammals and has other brain support. Some birds can be highly intelligent, like the raven, which is very surprising.Dr Bernd Heinrich and Dr Thomas Bugnyar fr... |
18 May 2007
04:23 GMT |
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People have been amazed since Antiquity by dolphins' intelligent behavior. 2,000 years ago, the Greek poet Opian said "The dolphins are humans that at the demand of the Dionysus (a Greek god) changed the ground with the sea, taking fish shape". The high intelligence of the dolphins is regarded as a reaction to ... |
8 May 2007
16:07 GMT |
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Looking at the beautiful androids from SF movies, you should know that they could be built only when a computer could function like a human brain. In fact, researchers have been improving the computer intelligence for half a century now, but they also largely ignored the most intelligent thing in nature: the human br... |
20 March 2007
06:55 GMT |
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