People who practice meditation are better able to read the facial expressions of others, and show more activity in the regions of the brain related to empathy, according to a study published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
One of the anthropological doubts that researchers are trying to unravel is, when exactly did man start hunting? When we begin to be dependent on consumption of meat? A recent discovery has confirmed the hypothesis that more than 1.5 million years ago the first hominids in Africa were already hunters.
When doing calculations and mathematical operations, bilinguals always use the language in which they learned to do math, according to a study published in the journal Psychological Science. The researchers, from the Basque Center for Cognition, Brain and Language, worked with 20 bilingual people.
Leptin is a kind of food sensor that is responsible for controlling appetite and telling the brain "Enough is enough" when you have enough energy. Its study is very important to treat diseases such as obesity and diabetes, and until now mice were used for its study, since it is an exclusive hormone of vertebrates. Now, a group of researchers from Harvard Medical School (USA) has found a homologous substance in the fruit fly: it is called Upd2 and, because flies are very easy animals to study in the laboratory, thanks to this discovery may reveal new secrets about the obesity hormone.
Was there water on Mars? Previous investigations had found some clues, but now Curiosity, the robot that has been exploring the surface of the neighboring planet since the beginning of August, has found rocks whose shape, according to experts, originated from the action of water.
In the waters off the Mexican coast, scientists from North Carolina State University (USA) have discovered a fish that has four hook-shaped hooks on its penis. The new species has been named Gambusia quadruncus.
New research reveals that infants and toddlers learn by testing hypotheses, analyzing statistics, making causal inferences, observing, and conducting experiments. In other words, as Alison Gopnik, a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley explains in the journal Science, children often use scientific reasoning in their games and interactions with other subjects.
When two major earthquakes struck the Indian Ocean and the Indonesian island of Sumatra last April, a tectonic gap was set in motion within the Indo-Australian plate. Two investigations published in the journal Nature reveal that the earthquakes were 40% more intense than previously thought and analyze their consequences.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
