One wasp species has evolved the ability to recognize individual faces among their peers—something that most other insects cannot do—signaling an evolution in how they have learned to work together.
Plants & Animals
Jan 27, 2020
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When it comes to playing a game of fetch, many dogs are naturals. But now, researchers report that the remarkable ability to interpret human social communicative cues that enables a dog to go for a ball and then bring it ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 16, 2020
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Researchers at the Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, have uncovered multi-level relationships between locomotion—the ways animals move—and brain architecture, using high-definition 3-D models of lizard ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2019
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The stereotype that associates being "brilliant" with White men more than White women is shared by children regardless of their own race, finds a team of psychology researchers. By contrast, its study shows, children do not ...
Social Sciences
Oct 10, 2019
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Pupils do better in spelling tests if teachers reward them for team—rather than individual—performance, according to new findings published in the peer-reviewed journal Educational Psychology.
Social Sciences
Oct 3, 2019
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Being good at math relates to better financial and medical outcomes—unless you don't have confidence in your own abilities with numbers, new research suggests.
Social Sciences
Sep 9, 2019
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Neanderthals and other early humans produced a tarry glue from birch bark; this was long considered proof of a high level of cognitive and cultural development. Researchers had long believed that birch tar—used by the Neanderthals ...
Archaeology
Aug 20, 2019
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New research on the importance of non-cognitive skills—such as conscientiousness, self-esteem and feeling in control of one's life—for graduates' earnings potential offers important lessons for young people receiving ...
Education
Aug 14, 2019
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Young Australian eastern blue-tongue lizards (Tiliqua scincoides) are every bit as clever as adults, researchers have found.
Ecology
Jul 15, 2019
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The Paleoneurology group at the CENIEH, coordinated by Emiliano Bruner, has just published a paper in the journal American Journal of Primatology on the variations and differences in the parietal lobes of different species ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 28, 2019
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