Genes which determine animal complexity — or what makes humans so much more complex than a fruit fly or a sea urchin — have been identified for the first time. …read more Source:: Science
Month: September 2017
Physical abuse and punishment impact children’s academic performance
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•Scientists have found that physical abuse was associated with decreases in children’s cognitive performance, while non-abusive forms of physical punishment were independently associated with reduced school engagement and increased peer …read more Source:: Science
Video gamers have an advantage in learning
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•Neuropsychologists let video gamers compete against non-gamers in a learning competition. During the test, the video gamers performed significantly better and showed an increased brain activity in the brain areas …read more Source:: Science
Raccoons solve an ancient puzzle, but do they really understand it?
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•Scientists have been using an ancient Greek fable written by Aesop as inspiration to test whether birds and small children understand cause and effect relationships. A group of scientists have …read more Source:: Science
New study changes our view on flying insects
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•For the first time, researchers are able to prove that there is an optimal speed for certain insects when they fly. At this speed, they are the most efficient and …read more Source:: Science
Small collisions make big impact on Mercury’s thin atmosphere
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•Mercury, our smallest planetary neighbor, has very little to call an atmosphere, but it does have a strange weather pattern: morning micro-meteor showers. …read more Source:: Science
Solving the mystery of Pluto’s giant blades of ice
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•NASA’s New Horizons mission revolutionized our knowledge of Pluto when it flew past that distant world in July 2015. Among its many discoveries were images of strange formations resembling giant …read more Source:: Science
Farthest active inbound comet yet seen
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•NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the farthest active inbound comet ever seen, at a whopping distance of 1.5 billion miles from the Sun (beyond Saturn’s orbit). Slightly warmed by …read more Source:: Science
Tsunami enabled hundreds of aquatic species to raft across Pacific
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•The 2011 Japanese tsunami set the stage for something unprecedented. For the first time in recorded history, scientists have detected entire communities of coastal species crossing the ocean by floating …read more Source:: Science
Modern humans emerged more than 300,000 years ago new study suggests
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•A genomic analysis of ancient human remains from KwaZulu-Natal revealed that southern Africa has an important role to play in writing the history of humankind. …read more Source:: Science