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Insomnia Mania: Newborn Mammals Don't Sleep for a Month PDF Print E-mail

Insomnia takes on a whole new meaning with the discovery that newborn dolphins and killer whales can forego sleep for their entire first month.

 
Bees recognize human faces using feature configuration PDF Print E-mail

Going about their day-to-day business, bees have no need to be able to recognise human faces. Yet in 2005, when Adrian Dyer from Monash University trained the fascinating insects to associate pictures of human faces with tasty sugar snacks, they seemed to be able to do just that.

 
Brawn beats beauty in human mating game PDF Print E-mail
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Brute strength, not beauty, ensured winning mates among human ancestors, according to an anthropologist.

 
Artificial life? Synthetic genes 'boot up' cell PDF Print E-mail

Scientists working to make a synthetic life form reported a major step forward Thursday, saying they had created an artificial genome and used it to bring a hollowed-out bacterium back to life.

 
‘Inuk’ the 4000-year-old Greenlander PDF Print E-mail

Using new techniques scientists reveal a detailed picture of an ancient human from a hair sample found in Greenland

A group of scientists from the University of Copenhagen have reconstructed the first detailed genome of an ancient human. The man has been dubbed ‘Inuk’ meaning ‘man’ in Greenlandic.

 
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