(Nanowerk News) Crafting a unique and promising research hypothesis is a fundamental skill for any scientist. It can also be time consuming: New PhD candidates might spend the first year of their ...
A new study of the Hadza population in Tanzania, forthcoming in the April 2006 issue of Current Anthropology, explores the role of hunting in human evolution. Researchers have long tried to locate the ...
A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how ...
In the long-running debate over just what causes Alzheimer’s disease, one side looks to have scored a victory with new results with an in-development drug. But there’s enough variation in the data to ...
Response and remission rates failed to beat placebo in a new Harvard meta-analysis, throwing the inflammation hypothesis into ...
As I’ve discussed previously, conventional wisdom suggests that using social media promotes poor mental health, especially in teenagers. But there is good reason to question this idea. As more ...
Evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman takes the long view of physical activity. His name has been connected to running and human evolution ever since his seminal Nature study “Endurance running and ...
The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...
Engineers have developed AI frameworks to identify evidence-driven hypotheses that could advance biologically inspired materials. Crafting a unique and promising research hypothesis is a fundamental ...