Guided by Dr. Michael Fradley, a group of scientists in the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and also North Africa (EAMENA) project utilized a range of open-source satellite images to carefully study the area around the eastern Nafud desert, an region little researched in the past. The unexpected results, released in the journal...
The study looked at the variation in attitudes towards parenting across two samples of participants from different backgrounds, and found that cultural attitudes about parenting seem to relate to infant experience in some ways, but not others.Mothers in the samples from the United Kingdom. and Uganda have different attitudes toward parenting; however, while...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA study has found that co-working spaces can limit the creativity and innovation of recent businesses.These shared spaces, that have boomed in popularity since the pandemic, may provide initial opportunities to work together, but before long, they ultimately inhibit the emergence of collective practices.The research, co-authored by Bayes Business Institution, investigated...
Hatice Yardım / UnsplashThe advantages of reading would not be understated, even when it concerns living a longer life. A current investigation discovers that reading manuals generally returns mental improvements that enhance longevity.Bibliomaniacs express joy! A current investigation in the journal Social Science and Medicine simply found that individuals who read manuals live longer...
Archaeologists found the complete skeleton of a spider monkey (right) buried beside an eagle (left) and other animals at the base of a pyramid in the ancient city of Teotihuacan. Credit: N. SUGIYAMA/PROJECT PLAZA OF THE COLUMNS COMPLEXIts 1,700-year-old skeletal system excavated at Teotihuacan in Mexico recommends it was likely an offering from the...
A ceremony on Saturday marked the end of a long repatriation processLeola One Feather, of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, observes as Native American artifacts are photographed in Barre, Massachusetts. Credit: Associated PressA small Massachusetts museum is returning approximately 150 items, some linked to the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, to the Lakota Sioux peoples....
Credit: IAAARCHAEOLOGISTS IDENTIFIED AN ENTIRE SENTENCE IN CANAANITE ENGRAVED ON AN IVORY COMB THAT DATES FROM 1700 BC.The comb was uncovered at Tel Lachish in Israel back in 2017 by a team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) and Southern Adventist University in the United States.At the time, the shallow nature of the...
People shop at a HomeGoods store, Nov. 10, 2022, in New York City. Credit: (LIAO PAN/CHINA NEWS SERVICE/GETTY IMAGES)Higher prices eroded consumer sentiment from a month back.Consumers became a lot bleaker in November. The combination of higher interest rates and persistent inflation tanked their morale, the preliminary survey of consumers released Friday by the...
Several of the ancient Egyptian branding-irons — actually made of bronze — were too small for large animals like cattle and were probably used to brand human slaves. Credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum; (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)A new research study proposes that small branding irons from ancient Egypt were most likely used to mark...
The Heterobrachia was little affected by the end-Triassic mass extinction, possibly because of a flexible mode of feeding of the larvae, an adaptation to relatively warm temperatures, and a flexible attachment of the mantle that allowed for covering the shell. Credit: Mariel Ferrari, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)A set of investigators, one with Instituto Patagónico de...
