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Researchers have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to unravel the intricate relationship between personality and gene expression.

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The group won the Systems Engineering Award at the NASA Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-Changing (BIG) Challenge finals held in November at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

Shortly after the turn of the third millennium, the New Atheists set the stage for the generations who grew up abused by religion. Gen X and baby boomer atheists and secular humanists heralded authors such as Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett for bringing some scientific perspective (as well some sc ...

North Carolina Gov. Cooper and FEMA give Gastonia $6 million in effort to prevent disaster from climate change related weather problems.

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Credit: University of Granada Creativity--the "secret weapon" of Homo sapiens--constituted a major advantage over Neanderthals and played an important role in the survival of the human species. This is the finding of an international team of scientists, led by the University of Granada (UGR), which has identified for the first time a series of 267 genes linked to creativity that differentiate Homo sapiens from Neanderthals. Molecular Psychiatry (Nature), suggests that it was these genetic dif...

 E-Mail IMAGE: From left, a chimpanzee, a modern human, and a reconstructed Neanderthal in the American Museum of Natural Historys Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins. view more  Credit: D. Finnin/©AMNH A new study is the first-ever to identify the genes for creativity in Homo sapiens that distinguish modern humans from chimpanzees and Neanderthals. The research identified 267 genes that are found only in modern humans and likely play an important role in the evolution o...