Over the hill
By Faiza Arif | January 18, 2012A study conducted at University College London shows that cognitive decline can start around age 45.
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A study conducted at University College London shows that cognitive decline can start around age 45.
Researchers at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam have found a significant positive relationship between how well children perform academically and how physically active they are.
What: A new dental tool which can help fill cavities in teeth and remove plaque while improving the lifespan of the tooth so that the treatment lasts.
The oldest known occurrence of tooth decay has been discovered in a 275-million-year-old reptile fossil. This find predates the second oldest known example by about 200 million years.
A recent analysis of humanity's major language families has cast doubt on the long-held notion of language's universality, which was said to be dictated by common linguistic structures in human brains.
Who: Harvard research team, led by Harvard Chemistry Prof. George Whitesides, presented its design and experimental results for the microelectromechanical systems force sensor at the Institution for Electrical and Electronics Engineers MEMS 2011 conference. What: The MEMS force sensor is a paper accelerometer that senses motion and measures an object's g-forces.
Six researchers on a simulated flight to Mars finally have 'landed' there after spending more than 250 days in a series of locked steel tubes mimicking a spacecraft.
New fossil evidence from Hadar, Ethiopia suggests that Australopithecus afarensis, the humanoid species thought to have existed between about 2.9 and 3.7 million years ago, had the first modern feet.
