Softer foods from agricultural lifestyles may have changed the human bite, making it easier to form certain sounds.
Did Dietary Changes Bring Us ‘F’ Words? Study Tackles Complexities of Language’s Origins
Softer foods from agricultural lifestyles may have changed the human bite, making it easier to form certain sounds.
Cognitive decline and mortality among community-dwelling Chinese older people
Whether cognitive decline is related to a higher risk of death independent of the initial cognitive function is inconclusive. Evidence…
How Big Tobacco Hooked Children on Sugary Drinks
Researchers combing through archives discovered that cigarette makers had applied their marketing wizardry to sweetened beverages and turned generations of…
From mirror-image biology to enhanced therapeutic proteins
Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing biomolecules in their mirror-image form. The researchers’ goal is to create a mirror-image artificial protein…
Guardians of the synapse: Scientists identify a new role for nerve-supporting cells
Researchers have found, for the first time, that a blood-clotting protein can, unexpectedly, degrade nerves–and how nerve-supporting glial cells, including…
Thanking and apologizing: Talk that isn’t cheap
Researchers have introduced a framework, ‘Responsibility Exchange Theory,’ for understanding why thanking and apologizing, as well as bragging and blaming,…
The sweet spot: Scientists discover taste center of human brain
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and a new method of statistical analysis, researchers have discovered the taste center in…
Vaccine study confirms sensitivity of cholera test
Recently, the sensitivity of fecal microbiological cultures for detecting cholera has come under question. Researchers investigated this claim using a…
Poor pitch singing could be a matter of the tune in your head
Sub-vocalization, the silent, preparatory muscle movements of the face and larynx that result when singers run a song through their…