Ancient diaspora was a manly affair
According to current theory, modern humans left Africa around 60,000 years ago in a migration that spread the human population…
Slavery to blame for racial disparities in health?
The latest American Journal of Human Biology contains details of two studies that contend that poor nutrition and stress –…
Did human-induced climate change begin thousands of years ago?
Climate change dogma posits that the invention of the steam engine and the advent of the coal-fueled industrial age marked…
Saltwater irrigation trial a success
Take an arid field riddled with salty soil. Irrigate it with salty water and plant a salt-tolerant grass along with…
Study reveals profound effects of anesthetics on infants
Appearing in Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, a study on the brains of newborn mice has provided more evidence that numbing…
Brainier men have better sperm
Reporting their findings in the journalIntelligence, researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry in the UK say that men with higher…
CO2 detected on distant extrasolar planet
The Hubble Space Telescope has detected carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant star, a possible…
Credit card maxed out? Blame your sex drive
Foreclosures, credit card debt, bank bailouts – all symptoms of compulsive overspending, which a University of Michigan (UM) researcher believes…
The happiness equation
Happiness is not just an individual experience, but is dependent on the happiness of others to whom individuals are connected…
Striking differences between brains of rich and poor
A new study in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, has shown for…
The “perfect” body not always perfect
The hormones that make women physically stronger, more competitive and better able to deal with stress also tend to redistribute…
Psychiatric disorders common among young adults
In a study of 18-24 year-olds conducted over a 12 month period, an astonishing 47 percent of the individuals assessed…
New epigenetic transmission mechanism identified
In epigenetic inheritance, hereditary information flows from parents to offspring not via DNA, but through the millions of proteins and…