A team of paleontologists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with colleagues from Xi'an Jiaotong University, the University of York, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Research Center ...
An international team of researchers including Svante Pääbo and Qiaomei Fu of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, sequenced nuclear and mitochondrial DNA that had been extracted from ...
Archaeology
Jan 21, 2013
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A pair of researchers at Macquarie University has found that women are able to accurately gauge a man's interest in casual sexual relationships by noting the shape of his face. In their paper published in the journal Evolution ...
Bad bookkeeping's been in the news a lot lately. Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto empire came crashing down amid news that an $8 billion shortfall was being tracked in a sloppy Excel spreadsheet. The Brazilian retailer Americanas ...
Social Sciences
Mar 28, 2023
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No new friends and no drama.
Plants & Animals
Oct 22, 2020
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Despite some conventional wisdom to the contrary, opposites don't actually attract.
Social Sciences
Aug 31, 2023
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An extended period of turmoil in the prehistoric Maya city of Mayapan, in the Yucatan region of Mexico, was marked by population declines, political rivalries and civil conflict. Between 1441 and 1461 CE the strife reached ...
Archaeology
Jul 19, 2022
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The scientific worldview has made great contributions to humanity's flourishing. But, as science advances into territory once firmly held by religion—attempting to answer questions about the origins of the universe, life ...
Other
Nov 29, 2023
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A small study has found that cats may change their behavior when they hear their owner's voice talking in a tone directed to them, the cats, but not when hearing the voice of a stranger or their owner's voice directed at ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 24, 2022
2
1704
New evidence from brain studies, including cognitive psychology and neurophysiology research, shows that the emotional assessment of every object, subject, action or event plays an important role in human mental processes. ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 25, 2016
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