Researchers Now Think Adolescence Should Last Until Age 24
WEB8919. We used to consider adolescence ending at age 19, but now scientists in the UK think we should consider the period of development as lasting from ages 10 to 24. BBC reports there’s currently a movement of social scientists who are pushing to extend our framework for adolescence as a society so that you’re technically still considered ...
Archaeology: Early human landscape modifications discovered in …
WEBThe discovery supported Prof. William Balee´s (Tulane University) theory of early human impacts on the current Amazonian tropical forest composition that radically altered the notion of the pristine Amazon rainforest. Now, the team published an article in Antiquity demonstrating that the earthwork-building civilization had a much longer human ...
Judge John McKeon faces call for impeachment after incest …
WEBOct 22, 2016 · 12849. Judge John McKeon faces call for impeachment after incest sentencing. Judge John McKeon is facing a backlash after he sentenced a man who pleaded guilty to repeatedly raping his 12-year-old daughter to just 60 days in jail. District Judge John McKeon last week sentenced the 40-year-old Glasgow man, whose name is being withheld to protect ...
Archaeology: Denisovan DNA found in sediments of Baishiya Karst …
WEBPhoto: Baishiya Karst Cave view more . Credit Image: HAN Yuanyuan. One year after the publication of research on the Xiahe mandible, the first Denisovan fossil found outside of Denisova Cave, the same research team has now reported their findings of Denisovan DNA from sediments of the Baishiya Karst Cave (BKC) on the Tibetan Plateau where the Xiahe mandible was found.
Research: Banana disease boosted by climate change
WEBClimate change has raised the risk of a fungal disease that ravages banana crops, new research shows. Black Sigatoka disease emerged from Asia in the late 20th Century and has recently completed its invasion of banana-growing areas in Latin America and the Caribbean. The new study, by the University ...
Report: Bumble bees can experience an object using one sense
WEBResearchers at Queen Mary University of London and Macquarie University in Sydney have published new work in the journal Science showing that bumblebees can also find objects in the dark they’ve only seen before. In the light, but barred from touching the objects, bumblebees were trained to find rewarding sugar water in one type of object ...
First physical evidence found supporting giant impact hypothesis
WEB1116. First physical evidence found supporting giant impact hypothesis. The Giant Impact Hypothesis proposes that the Earth’s Moon formed from the collision of a partially solid Earth with a more solid planetary object called Theia. No physical evidence of the event has been discovered until Dr. Daniel Herwartz with Georg-August-Universität ...
Research: How cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability
WEBThe Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. Animals need oxygen for the conversion of food into useful energy.
Researcher reconstructs skull of two million year-old giant …
WEBIMAGE: Artist’s impression of the giant dormouse (left) and its nearest living relative the garden dormouse (right). view more . Credit: Image credit: James Sadler, University of York. A PhD student has produced the first digital reconstruction of the skull of a gigantic dormouse, which roamed the island of Sicily around two million years ago.
Flightless birds proven to have a flying ancestor | Tdnews
WEBA new study of extinct and living flightless birds (ratite) has produced a new story of the evolution of flightless birds. Kieren J. Mitchell from the University of Adelaide in Australia and an international group of colleagues have shown DNA evidence that disproves present thought about the origin of flightless birds.
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