New research has revealed how people being intelligent, rather than their personality traits, leads to success. Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Minnesota, and Heidelberg devised a series of games to find out which factors lead to cooperative behavior when people interact in social and workplace situations. Their findings, due to be published in the Journal of ...
A newly identified coronavirus that killed nearly 25,000 piglets in 2016-17 in China emerged from horseshoe bats near the origin of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), which emerged in 2002 in the same bat species. The new virus is named swine acute diarrhea syndrome coronavirus (SADS-CoV). It does not appear to infect people, ...
A new study has rediscovered fossil collections from a 19th century hermit that validate phantom fossil footprints collected in the 1950s showing dicynodonts coexisting with dinosaurs. Before the dinosaurs, around 260 million years ago, a group of early mammal relatives called dicynodonts were the most abundant vertebrate land animals. These bizarre plant-eaters with tusks and ...
A study in Biological Psychiatry examines the sex-specific molecular changes in major depressive disorder (MDD). Men and women with major depression have opposite changes in the expression of the same genes, according to a new postmortem brain study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, Canada. ...
Bone measurement analysis indicates that the remains found on a remote island in the South Pacific were likely those of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, according to a UT researcher. Richard Jantz, professor emeritus of anthropology and director emeritus of UT’s Forensic Anthropology Center, re-examined seven bone measurements conducted in 1940 by physician D. W. ...
Since China ended its one-child policy and allowed all families to have up to two children, an additional 90 million women have become eligible to have a second child. However, new UBC sociology research suggests China’s two-child policy could be negatively affecting women’s status and gender equality. The study, published in the Chinese Sociological Review, found ...
Scientists can now show how alcohol increases cancer risk by damaging DNA in stem cells. Previous research has looked at the precise ways alcohol causes cancer; however, it has only been done in cell cultures. In this new research, mice have been used to show how alcohol exposure leads to permanent genetic damage. The study consisted of giving ...
While we read stories in the national media of a possible catastrophic eruption of the Yellowstone volcanic area, scientists are not so sure of the likelihood of such an event. In an effort to better understand the region’s subsurface geology, geologists are taking another look at geologic history. Geology professor Lijun Liu, who led the new research, has ...
Can orange light therapy really help people who have serious mental disorders, like those who hear voices and see things that aren’t there? Or people who are thinking about committing suicide? A center in Norway has joined the ranks of only a very few where the windows and lamps are equipped with orange filters. The ...
Neanderthals have long since walked on Earth; however, about 2 percent of Neanderthal DNA remains in non-African people living today. Now, researchers have discovered those Neanderthal genes have contributed a lot more than just to human immunity and modern diseases. In a new study, researchers have found our Neanderthal inheritance also contributes to other characteristics ...
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