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Scientists shed light on Neanderthals’ legacy in humans

Scientists shed light on Neanderthals' legacy in humans

A new analysis of Neanderthal DNA showed today’s humans have more of it than scientists previously thought. A research published Thursday in the American Journal of Human Genetics found today’s humans probably have between 1.5 and 2.1 percent Neanderthal DNA from interbreeding across Europe and Asia between 130,000 and about 50,000 years ago. A female Neanderthal bone estimated to be ... Read More »

Global warming could let soil release more carbon into air, says new study

Global warming could let soil release more carbon into air, says new research

A new study suggests higher temperatures could release more carbon than we thought, potentially creating a dangerous feedback loop that would cause the planet to get hotter and hotter. The research, led by Jerry Melillo, distinguished scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, appears in the Oct. 6 issue of Science. Melillo and colleagues began this pioneering experiment in 1991 in ... Read More »

Women can be as risk-taking as men, finds new research

Women can be as risk-taking as men, finds new research

Women can be just as risk-taking as men — or even more so — when the conventional macho measures of daring — such as betting vast sums on a football game — are replaced by less stereotypical criteria, according to new study led by the University of Exeter. Traditional barometers of high risk behaviour — such as betting a day’s ... Read More »

Asteroid to sweep close to Earth October 11-12, Report

Asteroid to sweep close to Earth October 11-12, Report

Attention sky watchers: Make sure to take a few moments to peer through your trusty telescopes on Wednesday, Oct. 11, as an enormous asteroid will zip by Earth at a breakneck speed. Astronomers around the world have been tracking the asteroid known as “2012 TC4” since July. Then, scientists believed the space rock, which is estimated to be somewhere between ... Read More »

Round-faced comic Ralphie May dies aged 45 after heart attack

Round-faced comic Ralphie May dies aged 45 after heart attack

Comedian Ralphie May died after suffering cardiac arrest on Friday in Las Vegas, his manager and publicist confirmed to Variety. He was 45. In a statement to Sinclair’s KSNV, Vice President of Las Vegas Entertainment Operations Damian Costa said: We are incredibly saddened by the loss of our beloved comedian headliner, Ralphie May, and our hearts go out to his ... Read More »

Fireball meteor observed in SW China (Video)

Watch: Fireball meteor observed in SW China

A giant fireball streaks across skies in China Wednesday night. Observers were admiring the full moon in celebration of their traditional Mid-Autumn Festival when they suddenly saw three meteors explode in the dark sky before their very eyes. The giant fireballs appeared in the sky over Shangri-La County in Yunnan Province in southwest China. One eyewitness told MailOnline that the ... Read More »

Prehistoric humans ‘avoided inbreeding’, scientists say

Prehistoric humans 'avoided inbreeding', researchers say

Early humans seem to have recognised the dangers of inbreeding at least 34,000 years ago, and developed surprisingly sophisticated social and mating networks to avoid it, new research has found. The study, reported in the journal Science, examined genetic information from the remains of anatomically modern humans who lived during the Upper Palaeolithic, a period when modern humans from Africa ... Read More »

Researchers Have a New Theory to Explain “Alien Megastructure” Star

Researchers Have a New Theory to Explain 'Alien Megastructure' Star

Astronomers say they’ve found a smoking gun that rules out the idea of an energy-harvesting megastructure or Dyson sphere – built by an alien civilization – surrounding Tabby’s Star. In recent years, a distant star in the constellation Cygnus, known officially as KIC 8462852 and unofficially as Tabby’s Star, has intrigued astronomers due to its irregular but significant dimming. As ... Read More »

Researchers discover five supermassive black hole pairs

Researchers discover five supermassive black hole pairs

Five new pairs of merging supermassive black holes have been discovered by combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Wide-Field Infrared Sky Explorer Survey (WISE), and the ground-based Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona. The five pairs of supermassive black holes possess the mass equivalent to millions of times that of Sun’s. The collision of two galaxies followed by their ... Read More »