Researchers have managed to find out why some people are more susceptible than others to fall ill from gout, previously called “the disease of kings” or “rich people’s disease”. Not only food is to blame, but genetic endowment, and the phenomenon is complex: 18 genetic variants involved in the excessive accumulation of uric acid in the [...]
For scientists, homosexuality enigma,it is a mystery in evolutionary standpoint. Homosexuality is a feature which would not be expected to grow and withstand the pressures of natural selection. However, it is the men and women in most cultures of the world. Now, scientists have found that an important factor in the emergence of homosexuality is [...]
When George Orwell wrote in his novel “Animal Farm”, the people and pigs are almost identical, was closer to the truth than he thought. A recent study revealed striking similarities between the two species. The most comprehensive study to date on domestic pig genome and its wild ancestor, the wild boar, shows that pigs and [...]
This “cult of happiness” that haunt the Western world began to have adverse effects: it makes people feel sad and miserable, psychologists say. Perhaps we went too far with this obsessive search for happiness? In a study published in the journal Emotion, researchers at the University of Queensland, Australia, says that sometimes hard to promote [...]
Specialists of the European Society for Reproduction and Embryology have presented several cases in which sections of the ovary of a woman were taken and frozen for some time, followed a few years back to be implanted in order to ensure effective reproduction the more mature age. First thawing and implantation of ovarian tissue occurred [...]
One of the most important requirements imposed on public space is not to invade the personal space of others. But how was born the concept and why we feel so uncomfortable when it is violated? According to the 1960 work of American anthropologist Edward Hall belonging, personal space of each of us has four dimensions, [...]
In human evolutionary history, fear of an element essential to the survival of species, not phobias, pathological fears, some “monsters” invented by man and now persecuting him. Latter but not incurable. Alarm that is triggered by mistake To think about the possibility of getting stuck in an elevator during an earthquake is a normal. But [...]
Scientists at Georgia Tech University, tries to recreate the course of evolution in laboratory inspired by the movie “Jurassic Park”, they want to see if, indeed, “life will find a way” to repeat the sequence mutation and selection that led to the emergence of life today. The experiment is done on the bacteria of the [...]
Brain scanning techniques have revealed details about the underlying emotional traits of a good old age, scientists say. No matter how painful are regrets, scientists say they can help us take better decisions in the future. However, recent studies revealed that with age, you should give up regrets for having a quiet aging. To determine [...]
75,000 years ago, people have developed a kind of “super-collective intelligence”, which has made significant contributions to technological progress of humanity, says a researcher. Transition to a collective mind allowed the emergence of a potentially infinite number of concepts, thoughts, concepts, giving people the ability to reflect, for the first time, the new and inventions. [...]