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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have dated an ape-man skeleton at 2.2 million years old suggesting that it may not have been part of the ancestral tree leading to humankind as originally thought.
Even a small-scale, regional nuclear war could produce as many direct fatalities as all of World War II and disrupt the global climate for a decade or more, with environmental effects that could be devastating for everyone on Earth, university researchers have found.
Borrowing ideas from speech recognition research, Johns Hopkins computer scientists are building mathematical models to represent the safest and most effective ways to perform surgery, including tasks such as suturing, dissecting and joining tissue.
Diversified social roles for men, women, and children may have given Homo sapiens an advantage over Neanderthals, says a new study in the December 2006 issue of Current Anthropology. The study argues that division of economic labor by sex and age emerged relatively recently in human evolutionary history and facilitated the spread of modern humans throughout Eurasia.
Cornell researchers have built a robot that works out its own model of itself and can revise the model to adapt to injury. First, it teaches itself to walk. Then, when damaged, it teaches itself to limp.
Tell a friend you are buying them a nanotechnology gift for the holidays, and visions of Star Trek collectables or geeky electronic toys start to dance in their heads. But nanotechnology gifts can include everything from fleece jackets and gloves from the Lands’ End™ catalogue—with Nano-Tex® Resists Static treatment—to an Apollo Diamond® engagement ring.
The United States says it plans to establish the first permanent human base on the moon by 2020 at the latest. The space agency NASA has revealed its plans for locating the outpost and for a landing craft that would carry astronauts from the base to explore other regions.
Open mobile communications development platform and phones will create explosive growth of mobile applications to rival the diversity and size of the massive ringtone market and foster new income models for carriers
Exciting perspective of being absolutely free of social rules, limits and control has been accepted by many humans as the brilliant method of finding their way and sense of living.
Cyber criminals are people who would not otherwise engage in criminal behaviour. Few would do anything to harm another person and many do not even consider their crime to be truly dishonest, perhaps due to the sense of physical dissociation provided by a computer.
OHSU study shows cognitive changes can be detected by tracking daily activity
Imagine a computer instantly working when it was turned on because it didn't need power to reload its memory and get it working.
He is unfamiliar to most of us, but in the world of aviation Joe Kittinger is a true American hero. Paul Sisco has more about one of America's space pioneers.
European Union regulators have fined Microsoft Corporation $357 million for failing to share programming code with its rivals, as demanded by a 2004 antitrust ruling.
The search for a Bluetooth Headset to use with Skype and Linux: how to choose one and make it work with the penguin.
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