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All Europeans related? Genes reveal a continent of cousins

08/05/2013 14:50
By Tia Ghose, Live Science Staff Writer / May 7, 2013 All Europeans are related, sharing a common ancestor as recently as 1,000 years ago, according to a gene study published today. Scientists drew this conclusion, detailed today (May 7) in the journal PLOS Biology, by calculating the length...

Intelligent Robots Will Overtake Humans by 2100, Experts Say

08/05/2013 14:45
Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Date: 07 May 2013 Time: 01:03 PM ET Are you prepared to meet your robot overlords? The idea of superintelligent machines may sound like the plot of "The Terminator" or "The Matrix," but many experts say the idea isn't far-fetched. Some even think the...

That's Wonky! Some Atoms Have Pear-Shaped Nuclei

08/05/2013 14:40
Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Date: 08 May 2013 Time: 12:45 PM ET A few heavy, unstable atoms have pear-shaped nuclei, research suggests. The lopsided nuclei, described today (May 8) in the journal Nature, could be good candidates for researchers looking for new types of physics...

Talk To Your Plants - You Help Them Grow Better!

07/05/2013 23:28
7 May, 2013 MessageToEagle.com - Does talking to your plants make them grow better? Researchers say: Yes! Having a neighborly chat improves seed germination, finds research in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Ecology. Even when other known means of communication, such as contact, chemical...

PSA screening exposed as complete medical hoax: 99.9 percent of the time it provides no benefit to men

07/05/2013 11:35
Tuesday, May 07, 2013 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) The medical-industrial complex is backtracking heavily these days from recommending that men undergo prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests for prostate cancer, as continually emerging evidence reveals the test to be dangerous,...

Before Babel? Ancient Mother Tongue Reconstructed

06/05/2013 18:05
May 6, 2013 The ancestors of people from across Europe and Asia may have spoken a common language about 15,000 years ago, new research suggests. Now, researchers have reconstructed words, such as "mother," "to pull" and "man," which would have been spoken by ancient hunter-gatherers, possibly in an...

Plants moderate climate warming

04/05/2013 06:47
by Staff Writers Vienna, Austria (SPX) May 03, 2013 As temperatures warm, plants release gases that help form clouds and cool the atmosphere, according to research from IIASA and the University of Helsinki. The new study, published in Nature Geoscience, identified a negative feedback loop in which...

1,700-Year-Old Cemetery With Unusual Practice Of Christian And Pagan Burials Discovered

03/05/2013 15:53
3 May, 2013 MessageToEagle.com -The University of Leicester archaeological unit that discovered King Richard III has spearheaded another dig and discovered a 1,700-old- Roman cemetery – under another car park in Leicester. The latest dig follows the historic discovery of King Richard III by...

What Is Intuition And Why Can It Be Misleading?

03/05/2013 15:52
3 May, 2013 MessageToEagle.com - The word intuition is derived from the Latin intueor – to see; intuition is thus often invoked to explain how the mind can “see” answers to problems or decisions in the absence of explicit reasoning – a “gut reaction”. Several recent popular psychology books – such...

This is the end: Team of experts say humanity faces extinction

03/05/2013 10:19
A team of mathematicians, philosophers and scientists at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute say there is ever-increasing evidence that the human race’s reliance on technology could, in fact, lead to its demise. The group has a forthcoming paper entitled “Existential Risk Prevention as...
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