If you’re an optimist, you probably believe that humanity is inherently into cooperation and willing to sacrifice for the greater good of all. If you’re a pessimist, on the other hand, chances are you believe that, in the end, people will always do what is in their own self-interest. But if you’re Martin Nowak, you ...
Regularly drinking more than the recommended UK guidelines for alcohol could take years off your life, according to new research from the University of Cambridge. Part-funded by the British Heart Foundation, the study shows that drinking more alcohol is associated with a higher risk of stroke, fatal aneurysm, heart failure, and death. The authors say ...
UTA researcher Naomi Cleghorn has participated in a Nature paper that describes how humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba volcanic eruption about 74,000 years ago, which created a decades-long volcanic winter. The scientific team found microscopic glass shards that had traveled nearly 9,000 kilometers from the eruption site and landed in the archaeological sediments of ...
The collapse of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica could significantly affect global sea levels. It already drains an area roughly the size of Britain or the U.S. state of Florida, accounting for around 4 percent of global sea-level rise — an amount that has doubled since the mid-1990s. As part of a new £20 ...
UTA researcher Naomi Cleghorn has participated in a Nature paper that describes how humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba volcanic eruption about 74,000 years ago, which created a decades-long volcanic winter. Cleghorn, a UTA associate professor of sociology and anthropology, said: “We have demonstrated that in two sites along the south coast of South Africa that ...
Evidence that humans can genetically adapt to diving has been identified for the first time in a new study. The evidence suggests that the Bajau, a people group indigenous to parts of Indonesia, have genetically enlarged spleens that enable them to free dive to depths of up to 70 m. It has previously been hypothesized ...
A new study by geoscientists at the University of Liverpool has identified the temperature at which cooling magma cracks, such as the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, to form geometric columns. Geometric columns occur in many types of volcanic rocks and form as the rock cools and contracts, resulting in a regular array of polygonal ...
Australian researchers have discovered what is thought to be the world’s oldest spider, unlocking key information about the mysterious eight-legged creature. The research, published in the Pacific Conservation Biology Journal, suggests the 43-year-old Giaus Villosus trapdoor matriarch, who recently died during a long-term population study, had outlived the previous world record holder, a 28-year old tarantula found in ...
A study of the most recent near-reversals of the Earth’s magnetic field by an international team of researchers, including the University of Liverpool, has found it is unlikely that such an event will take place anytime soon. There has been speculation that the Earth’s geomagnetic fields may be about to reverse, with substantial implications, due ...
For centuries, people have claimed that strange behavior by their cats, dogs, and even cows can predict an imminent earthquake, but the first rigorous analysis of the phenomenon concludes that there is no strong evidence behind the claim. The paper published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America instead suggests that most of this “evidence” consists of ...
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