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Humans are smarter thanks to super disaster
A terrible volcanic eruption that greatly reduced the number of prehistoric creatures on the earth, but it also contributed to humanity's attainment.
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People have eaten fish from 40,000 years ago
At least one of our ancestors regularly used fish as food, according to a recent study.
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New-born brain cells improve people's orientation
The human body continues to produce brain cells throughout life - it is an undisputed fact. But until now, the purpose of this production is still a controversial topic…
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New discovery of the nature of the learning process
Education will most likely soon enter a milestone when new findings in neuroscience, psychology, and machine learning are working together to create a foundation for new…
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Outwardness helps to live longer
An American study has concluded that long-lived people are more extroverted than others.
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Put human speech into mice
It is not the mouse that speaks in cartoons, this is a flesh-and-bone mouse that carries a version of the human gene involved in speech, a new study says.
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Is cancer a price for a big brain?
Our big brain makes us superior to chimpanzees, but according to a new hypothesis, we may be paying for this size: that is the higher rate of cancer.
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History and geography create differences in genes in humans
New research shows that natural selection may form a slower sequence of human genes than one might expect.
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Wearing pink eyeglasses helps to observe more
A study by the University of Toronto provides the first direct evidence that human mood really affects the way the vision system filters sensory experiences.
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Mice were transplanted with the Foxp2 gene from someone who said more about the language development process
Scientists at the Mouse Laboratory at the Helmholtz Center in Munich have contributed greatly to understanding human language development.
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The process of forming the H1N1 virus
March 28, a month before information about swine flu flooded headlines around the world, a 9-year-old girl in Imperial County, California, had a 104.3 degree F fever.
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Chromosome X story: The evolution of a sex chromosome
Forget about the Y chromosome - it's time to talk about the X chromosome.
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The brain can recognize objects faster than many people think
The human brain lags far behind computers in the ability to recognize faces and objects, with varying degrees of difficulty in size, color, direction, lighting condition…
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Pollination crisis: myths?
The idea that pollinating pollinators could threaten human food supplies - creating a situation called 'pollination crisis' - could be considered a myth.
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Secrets drink more alcohol is not drunk
Many individuals drink alcohol better than others because they own a special gene, US scientists claim.