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Stop on Red: The Effects of Color May Lie Deep in Evolution
June 8, 2011 — Almost universally, red means stop. Red means danger. Red means hot. And analyzing the results in the 2004 Olympics, researchers have found that red also means dominance. Athletes wearing red ... > full story -
Silver from the Americas May Have Entered the Spanish Economy Later Than Thought
June 8, 2011 — European metal dominated Spanish silver coinage up until the reign of Philippe III (1578-1621) and it was only in the 18th century that it was completely replaced by Mexican metal. Using mass ... > full story -
Huge Ancient Language Dictionary Finished After 90 Years
June 7, 2011 — An ambitious project to identify, explain and provide citations for the words written in cuneiform on clay tablets and carved in stone by Babylonians, Assyrians and others in Mesopotamia between 2500 ... > full story -
Bacteria That Clean Art: Restorers and Microbiologists Use Bacteria to Make Works of Art Shine Like New
June 7, 2011 — Researchers in Spain are beginning to experiment with this new technique on the frescoes of Antonio Palomino from the 17th century in the Church of Santos Juanes in Valencia. They have shown that a ... > full story -
Carbon Release to Atmosphere 10 Times Faster Than in the Past, Geologists Find
June 5, 2011 — The rate of release of carbon into the atmosphere today is nearly 10 times as fast as during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), 55.9 million years ago, the best analog we have for current ... > full story -
Autism May Have Had Advantages in Humans' Hunter-Gatherer Past, Researcher Believes
June 3, 2011 — Though people with autism face many challenges because of their condition, they may have been capable hunter-gatherers in prehistoric times, according to a new ... > full story -
What the Margins of Spain's Ebro River Basin Looked Like 6 Million Years Ago
June 2, 2011 — A Spanish research team, using 3-D reflection seismology, has for the first time mapped the geomorphological features of the Ebro river basin 5 to 6 million years ago. The images obtained show that ... > full story -
Thomas Edison Also Invented the Concrete House, Researcher Says
June 1, 2011 — Afficionados of modern poured-concrete design were in for a rude awakening last month when they heard Matt Burgermaster's presentation at the 64th annual meeting of the Society of Architectural ... > full story -
Ancient Hominid Males Stayed Home While Females Roamed, Study Finds
June 1, 2011 — The males of two bipedal hominid species that roamed the South African savanna more than a million years ago were stay-at-home kind of guys when compared to the gadabout gals, according to a new ... > full story -
Researchers Solve Mammoth Evolutionary Puzzle: The Woollies Weren't Picky, Happy to Interbreed
May 31, 2011 — A DNA-based study sheds new light on the complex evolutionary history of the woolly mammoth, suggesting it mated with a completely different and much larger species. The research found the woolly ... > full story -
Climate Played Big Role in Vikings' Disappearance from Greenland
May 30, 2011 — Greenland's early Viking settlers were subjected to rapidly changing climate. Temperatures plunged several degrees in a span of decades, according to researchers. A reconstruction of 5,600 years of ... > full story -
Significant Role Played by Oceans in Ancient Global Cooling
May 26, 2011 — Thirty-eight million years ago, tropical jungles thrived in what are now the cornfields of the American Midwest and furry marsupials wandered temperate forests in what is now the frozen Antarctic. A ... > full story
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