Scientists discover vast undersea freshwater reserves
Email this page December 5, 2013 (AFP) – Australian researchers said Thursday they had established the existence of vast freshwater reserves trapped beneath the ocean floor which could sustain future…
Scientists decode oldest-known ‘human’ DNA
Email this page December 5, 2013 (AFP) – Anthropologists said Wednesday they had decoded the oldest DNA ever found in the human family, extracted from a 400,000-year-old thigh bone found…
Human ancestor was less-chimp-like than thought: study
Email this page December 4, 2013 (AFP) – The last common ancestor of Man and Ape was not a knuckle-walking, tree-swinging hominid resembling today’s chimpanzee, said a study Tuesday challenging…
Compound kills drug resistant bacteria: study
Email this page November 14th, 2013 (AFP) – Scientists Wednesday unveiled a drug combination that destroys antibiotic-resistant germs in mice, potentially opening a new front against chronic and relapsing infections in…
Monkeys Use Their Minds to Move Virtual Arms
Email this page Jessica Berman / VOA November 11th, 2013 - Researchers have developed an interface between a monkey’s brains and a machine that could eventually be used to allow someone…
Speaking two languages may delay dementia: study
Email this page November 7th, 2013 (AFP) – People who speak two languages may be able to ward off dementia for years, regardless of whether they have the ability to…
Novel approach to hair growth employs infant foreskins
Email this page WASHINGTON, October 21, 2013 (AFP) – A new experiment to regrow hair by cloning follicles and using discarded infant foreskins to graft them has shown some early…
Skull discovery might rewrite human evolution
Email this page TBILISI, October 18, 2013 (AFP) – Georgian scientists on Friday presented a 1.8 million-year-old skull discovered in the Caucasus nation that researchers say could force a re-evaluation…
