Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different languages found that tonal speakers are better ...
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2023
0
63
Biologists on Tuesday said they had figured out how the New Caledonian crow, a bird famed for using tools, does its party trick.
Plants & Animals
Oct 9, 2012
6
0
Beginning about 60,000 years ago, our species spread across the world occupying a wider range of habitats than any other species. Humans can do this because we can rapidly evolve specialized tools that make life possible ...
Social Sciences
Apr 1, 2019
4
328
Reading is the gateway for learning, but one-third of elementary school students in the United States do not read at grade level. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are exploring how the design of reading materials ...
Education
Sep 28, 2020
2
399
Researchers led by a team at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified cellular and molecular features of the brain that set modern humans apart from their closest primate relatives and ancient human ancestors. The findings, ...
Evolution
Aug 10, 2023
0
90
A chimpanzee's intelligence is largely determined by its genes, while environmental factors may be less important than scientists previously thought, according to a Georgia State University research study.
Plants & Animals
Jul 10, 2014
1
0
A trio of researchers with varied backgrounds is suggesting in an article published in the journal Communications Biology that eating naturally fermented foods may have led to an increase in brain size for early humans. In ...
Limestone spheroids, enigmatic lithic artifacts from the ancient past, have perplexed archaeologists for years. While they span from the Oldowan to the Middle Paleolithic, the purpose behind their creation remains a subject ...
Archaeology
Sep 5, 2023
4
205
Zebra mbuna (a species of cichlid fish) and stingrays can add and subtract one from the numbers one to five, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. The findings highlight that the numerical abilities of fish ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2022
2
837
Smart people are just as racist as their less intelligent peers—they're just better at concealing their prejudice, according to a University of Michigan study.
Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2013
60
0
