Baboons, infants show similar gestures
March 22nd, 2012 - 9:27 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 22 (IANS) Baboons and infants show similar gesturing behaviour, suggesting shared communication systems.Both human infants and baboons have a stronger preference for using their right hand to gesture.It ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Dogs understand you as much as toddlers do
January 6th, 2012 - 8:30 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 6 (IANS) Dogs are as advanced as a two-year-old child in following eye contact, a study has found.Scientists have found the animals pick up not only the words ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Infants raised in bilingual households can distinguish unfamiliar languages
February 19th, 2011 - 5:24 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 19 (ANI): A psychologist at the University of British Columbia has revealed that infants raised in households where Spanish and Catalan are spoken can discriminate between English and French just ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Size means power, babies know by age 10 months
January 31st, 2011 - 3:45 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 31 (IANS) By 10 months, babies are aware of the fact that size brings with it power.
In the past, this skill might have helped them deduce that a lion posed ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
US hostage crisis ends as gunman shot dead (Third Lead)
September 2nd, 2010 - 5:52 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 2 (IANS) An armed man, who held three hostages in the Discovery Communications building in the US state of Maryland, was shot dead Wednesday afternoon, police said.
All three hostages are ... Read more...
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Gunman takes several hostages in US (Lead)
September 2nd, 2010 - 3:40 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 2 (DPA) Police were negotiating with a gunman who took an unconfirmed number of people hostage Wednesday inside the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Springs, Maryland, just outside Washington.The man ... Read more...
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Songbirds learn while asleep
June 17th, 2010 - 7:03 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 17 (IANS) Zebra finches learn their songs early in life even while asleep -- similar to the way children learn how to speak, research significant to our understanding of the ... Read more...
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Songbirds help cure autism?
April 2nd, 2010 - 3:26 am ICT by IANS
London, April 2 (IANS) A new study has concluded that a baby songbird can help cure autism and a range of other disorders.
"Song learning is an excellent paradigm for all types of ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Premature babies as good as others in use of hands
March 2nd, 2010 - 11:03 am ICT by IANS
London, March 2 (IANS) Even premature babies are capable of recognising and distinguishing two objects of different shapes (a prism and a cylinder) with their right or left hands, a new study ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Naked mole rats hold key to surviving stroke
December 1st, 2009 - 3:54 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 1 (IANS) Blind and nearly hairless, naked mole rats look like plump, pink fingers. These mole rats hold the key to surviving a stroke, say researchers.
Two University of Illinois-Chicago (UI-C) ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Umbilical cord blood stem cell transplant may help patients with lung, heart disorders
November 24th, 2009 - 1:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 24 (ANI): Human-derived umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells transplanted in an animal model could help in developing therapies for specific lung and heart disorders, according to two separate studies.For ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Stem cells in breast milk could fulfil baby’s ‘genetic destiny’
November 22nd, 2009 - 3:54 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 22 (ANI): A new research has found three different types of stem cells in breast milk which may be the reason why mother's milk is deemed best for babies.Dr Mark ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Language learning begins in the womb
November 6th, 2009 - 4:56 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Nov 6 (IANS) From their very first days, newborns' cries already bear the mark of the language their parents speak, reveals a new study.
The findings suggest that infants begin picking up ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Newborns cry with an ‘accent’
November 6th, 2009 - 12:26 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): Newborns start learning language in the womb - and their cries reflect the language their parents speak, say researchers."The dramatic finding of this study is that not only ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Five-month tots can tell human from monkey sounds
October 21st, 2009 - 4:06 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Oct 21 (IANS) Five-month-old infants can tell human voice from monkey sounds, say psychology researchers.
Their finding provides the first evidence that human infants are able to correctly match different kinds ... Read more...
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Infants match humans’ faces with speech, monkeys with monkey calls
October 20th, 2009 - 5:26 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 20 (ANI): A new study has revealed that the infants as young as five months are able to correctly identify humans as the source of speech and monkey as the ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
How rat pups learn to avoid potential danger
September 29th, 2009 - 1:36 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept 29 (ANI): Scientists from New York University have uncovered changes in the brains of helpless rat pups that make them learn about potential danger.They say that if similar mechanisms operate ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Single mothers were “never part of evolution”
September 22nd, 2009 - 3:05 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Sep 22 (ANI): There was "no such thing as a single mother" in the Pleistocene epoch, which covered almost 2.5million years and ended 12,000 years ago, according to an American emeritus ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Missing protein in rare genetic brain disorder restored
September 7th, 2009 - 2:40 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sep 7 (ANI): By using protease inhibitors, researchers at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) have restored to normal levels a key protein that is involved in early brain development, and ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Wolves beat dogs when it comes to logic
September 5th, 2009 - 12:54 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sept 5 (ANI): Although dogs are considered intelligent, but when it comes to making logical choices, wolves walk away with the 'smart' crown, say researchers.The new study from University in Hungary ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Single gene mutation behind catastrophic epilepsy
July 8th, 2009 - 5:52 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 8 (ANI): Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have found a mutation in a single gene to be responsible for catastrophic epilepsy - characterized by severe muscle spasms, persistent seizures, ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Tickled apes reveal human laughter is 16 million years old
June 5th, 2009 - 12:50 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 5 (ANI): Tickling a gorilla or chimp can arouse bursts of grunting sounds - or laughter, say researchers who conclude that man's laugh can be traced back to 10 to ... Read more...
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Dogs, 2-year-olds similar when it comes to understanding unfamiliar gestures
April 7th, 2009 - 3:11 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Apr 7 (ANI): Adult dogs and 2-year-old kids are similar when it comes to understanding human gestures, according to a new study.Gabriella Lakatos of Eotvos University in Budapest, Hungary, looked at ... Read more...
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Fish can count - but only up to four
April 1st, 2009 - 2:41 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 1 (ANI): Fish have the limited ability to count directly up to four, say scientists.Christian Agrillo, an experimental psychologist at the university of Padua in Italy, said that it was ... Read more...
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Baby chimps as smart as human babies
February 1st, 2009 - 12:37 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 1 (ANI): Baby chimps are as bright as human infants, claims a new study.The scientists who carried out the research believe that baby chimps mental development can even be ... Read more...
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Young birds babble before learning how to sing
May 2nd, 2008 - 2:13 pm ICT by admin
Washington, May 2 (ANI): Just like human infants, baby birds too babble before they learn how to sing.The discovery has researchers excited as it sheds new light on how birds, and ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Did dinos die because they failed to generate heat?
April 27th, 2008 - 1:03 pm ICT by admin
New York, April 27 (IANS) A new study has found why birds lack a heat-generating tissue present in mammals - and concludes that the absence of this tissue may have led to ... Read more...
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Lack of heat-generating tissue might have caused dino extinction
April 24th, 2008 - 12:32 pm ICT by admin
Washington, April 24 (ANI): The discovery that birds lack a tissue which is specialized to generate heat has lead scientists to speculate on the possibility of dinosaurs disappearing form the face ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Fish can count - but only up to four
February 27th, 2008 - 1:23 pm ICT by admin
London, February 27 (ANI): Fish have the limited ability to count directly up to four, say scientists.Christian Agrillo, an experimental psychologist at the university of Padua in Italy, said that it ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |