Humans were already recycling 13,000 years ago, burnt artifacts show

ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2012) — A study at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) reveals that humans from the Upper Palaeolithic Age recycled their stone artefacts to be put to other...

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Olympic Games in Rio 2016: Mathematical formula can predict medal haul, including impact of home advantage

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) — Team GB is only likely to clock up 46 medals in the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016, say researchers who used a mathematical formula three years ago to predict performance for London 2012, and came up with a medal haul of...

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Invasive 'Rasberry Crazy Ant' in Texas now identified species

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) — The Rasberry Crazy Ant is an invasive ant that was first noticed infesting areas around Houston, Texas ten years ago, but its species identity has remained undetermined until now. In a paper published Sept. 19 in the...

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Obese children have less sensitive taste-buds than those of normal weight

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) — Obese kids have less sensitive taste-buds than kids of normal weight, indicates research published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. This blunted ability to distinguish all five tastes of bitter, sweet,...

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Clenching left hand could help athletes avoid choking under pressure

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) — Some athletes may improve their performance under pressure simply by squeezing a ball or clenching their left hand before competition to activate certain parts of the brain, according to new research published by the American...

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Protecting our harbors and ships with a robotic tuna fish

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) — No question about it… they're very good at what they do. But they don't take well to orders, especially those to carry out inspection work in oily or dangerous environments, or in any kind of harsh environment, for that...

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Blind people develop accurate mental map by playing 'video' game

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) — Researchers have developed a new "video" game for blind people that can help them learn about a new space using only audio cues, as reported Sept. 19 in the open access journal PLOS ONE. The system, developed by a...

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People change moral position without even realizing it

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) — Shortly after expressing a moral view about a difficult topic, people may easily endorse the opposite view and remain blind to the psychological mismatch, according to research published Sept. 19 in the open access journal...

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Ancient tooth may provide evidence of early human dentistry

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) — Researchers may have uncovered new evidence of ancient dentistry in the form of a 6,500-year-old human jaw bone with a tooth showing traces of beeswax filling, as reported Sep. 19 in the open access journal PLOS ONE. ...

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Odorant shape and vibration likely lead to olfaction satisfaction

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) — A new study of the sense of smell lends support to a controversial theory of olfaction: Our noses can distinguish both the shape and the vibrational characteristics of odorant molecules. The study, in the journal Physical...

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Revolutionary ultrathin, flat lens: Smartphones as thin as a credit card?

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) — Scientists are reporting development of a revolutionary new lens -- flat, distortion-free, so small that more than 1,500 would fit across the width of a human hair -- capable in the future of replacing lenses in applications...

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Single-atom writer a landmark for quantum computing

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) — A research team led by Australian engineers has created the first working quantum bit based on a single atom in silicon, opening the way to ultra-powerful quantum computers of the future. In a landmark paper published...

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Ultra-distant galaxy discovered amidst cosmic 'dark ages': May be oldest galaxy ever

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) — With the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes as well as a cosmic magnification effect, a team of astronomers led by Wei Zheng of The Johns Hopkins University has spotted what could be the most distant...

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Monitoring brain activity during study can help predict test performance

ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2012) — Research at Sandia National Laboratories has shown that it's possible to predict how well people will remember information by monitoring their brain activity while they study. A team under Laura Matzen of Sandia's...

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Out of this world nanoscience: A computer chip that can assemble itself?

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) — Imagine a computer chip that can assemble itself. According to Eric M. Furst, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, engineers and scientists are closer to making this and other...

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University students put off-the-shelf helicopters to work

ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2012) — What amounts to serious scientific research could, at first glance, be mistaken for students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville letting off a little stress with radio-controlled helicopters. On a recent sunny,...

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Compound found in purple corn may aid in developing future treatments for type 2 diabetes, kidney disease

ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2012) — Diabetic nephropathy is one of the most serious complications related to diabetes, often leading to end-stage kidney disease. Purple corn grown in Peru and Chile is a relative of blue corn, which is readily available in...

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Jesus's wife? Scholar announces existence of a new early Christian gospel from Egypt

ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2012) — Four words on a previously unknown papyrus fragment provide the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been married, Harvard Professor Karen King told the 10th International Congress of Coptic Studies...

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How life arose on Earth: Researchers brew up organics on ice

ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 2012) — Would you like icy organics with that? Maybe not in your coffee, but researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are creating concoctions of organics, or carbon-bearing molecules, on ice in the...

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