...and animals? Hello, everyone. Please help me fill out my survey on my research topic -- the Relationship between Humans and Animals. The questions in the survey are very important to my research. I need this data for my thesis project of sculpture. The survey would take no more than 5...
...and animals? Hello, everyone. Please help me fill out my survey on my research topic -- the Relationship between Humans and Animals. The questions in the survey are very important to my research. I need this data for my thesis project of sculpture. The survey would take no more than 5...
parents Adam and Eve.....? But now we have science which proves that it's no way possible for human civilization to have started from a single set of parents and there were at least 10000-15000 people.
So if base is proved wrong would it be wise to still believe in the religion based on proved...
Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) report that data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts during...
We don't just share our lives with animals; we are animals - a reality that we often choose to forget in modern Western culture. Research published in the June special issue of SAGE journal, Social Science Information (SSI), delves deeper into our relationship with other creatures, critically...
Malaria spreads in human populations because female Anopheles mosquitoes carrying malaria-inducing Plasmodium parasites bite people and pass it into their bloodstream. Now a new US study shows it may be possible to use a bacterium that stops the parasite developing in the mosquito and create...
I've been trying to wrap my head around the issue of rape culture and animal abuse for a while now, and now that I am commenting on it, I'd like to provide full disclosure: I am not an active animal rights activist—though I would defend the life of an animal in most circumstances if I could–and...
To which of the higher taxa listed below do humans (Homo sapiens) not belong?
a. Osteichthyes.
b. Vertebrata.
c. Craniata.
d. Lissamphibia.
e. Synapsida (Mammalia)
I know the answer is A or D... but i'm not sure which one. Help?
...Neanderthals come from? I have read that Homo Sapiens encountered Neanderthals in Eurasia. If Neanderthals were living in Europe and Asia prior to Homo Sapiens, where did they migrate from? Did they not evolve from apes? I have also read that remnants of Neanderthal DNA are found in all (if...
Once heavy drinking impairs function, a variety of punishment-related threats may motivate people to stop drinking: spouses may threaten divorce, employers may threaten job loss, and courts threaten drunk drivers with losing their driver's license or incarceration. In the face of these threats...
Men lie, women lie, number's dont. PBS takes a look at the sheer ridiculousness of some numbers and then compares them against each other. Like how there are 7 billion humans... but 10 billion bats in the world. Or how humans weigh 287,000,000 tons total but one species of krill would weigh...
The BBC has a somewhat alarmist new report on the growing strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria in the world. According to the chief medical officer for England, the rise of antibiotic resistant strains is comparable to the threat of global warming. More »
Be Scared, Humans; Antibiotic...
...dumb and dumber? If you never heard of it then check it out.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/11/13/dumb-and-dumber-study-says-humans-are-slowly-losing-their-smarts
Now there is evidence out there that our brains have actually been shrinking ever since the bronze age...
The idea that carnivorous cooking took us from cavemen to CEOs*has been floating around for a while. But recent research suggests that it may be exercise -- not meat eating -- that helped humans grow bigger brains and gain intelligence. More »
Exercise Your Brain: Movement, Not Meat, Made...
Well, I found some video in you tube that some dogs and cats can speak simple English. I'm wondering if its possible for them to learn to speak English..?
In utero exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) can be associated with decreased thyroid function in newborn sheep, according to a recent study accepted for publication in Endocrinology, a journal of The Endocrine Society. Hypothyroidism is characterized by poor mental and physical performance in human...
A research team led by Dr. Christos Mantzoros, MD, PhD, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, has published new findings elucidating the molecular and clinical role of FNDC5/irisin in humans. Irisin is a recently identified hormone secreted from muscle cells that has...
Chimpanzees rarely get cancer, or a variety of other diseases that commonly arise in humans, but their genomic DNA sequence is nearly identical to ours. So, what's their secret? Researchers reporting in the September issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, a Cell Press journal, have...