The global impact of human activities on the natural environment is extensive, but those impacts are expanding at a slower rate than the rate of economic and population growth.Credit: Oscar Venter
The global impact of human activities on the natural...
Cornell University researchers found that music can have important effects on the cooperative spirits of those exposed to music. Credit: Cornell University
From casual acoustic melodies at the coffee shop to throbbing electronic beats at teen clothing outlets, music is...
Religious expression has a central role in societies around the world, but exactly what role it plays isn't always clear. Santa Fe Institute Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow Eleanor Power has an answer: whether it's walking across hot coals or simply...
For older adults, having more or closer family members in one's social network decreases his or her likelihood of death, but having a larger or closer group of friends does not, finds a new study that will be presented...
A small isthmus forms in an island in the Panama Canal.Credit: Jorge Aleman / Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Long ago, one great ocean flowed between North and South America. When the narrow Isthmus of Panama joined the continents about 3...
Mental health and racial inequities lead the 2016 top 10 child health concerns.Credit: C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health.
Black adults rate school violence and racial inequities higher on their list of children's health concerns than other...
Map outlining the opening of the human migration routes in North America revealed by the results presented in this study.Credit: Courtesy of Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
The established theory about...
Researchers working inside the Klipdrift complex. Credit: Magnus Haaland
Environmental records obtained from archaeological sites in South Africa's southern Cape suggest climate may not have been directly linked to cultural and technological innovations of Middle Stone Age humans in southern...
Daughters and sons of mothers who tied the knot young are more likely to want to marry early too, but only if Mom stayed married, new research has found.
And millennials whose moms divorced tend to want to move more...
Social scientists have long known that women working in numerically male-dominated occupations like physics and firefighting report experiencing workplace stress, but men who work in numerically female-dominated occupations like nursing and child care do not.
But why? Is it something...
Norms of domestic organization vary substantially among the world's cultural groups. For the global sample of societies in D-PLACE, a nearly equal number tend towards single-generation as multi-generation (extended family) households. D-PLACE allows local norms to be considered in...
