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Mastery of language could predict longevity
A recent study has linked longevity specifically to verbal fluency, the measure of one's vocabulary and ability to use it.
If a person hides their own hand and focuses on a rubber hand instead, they may perceive it as part of their own body under certain conditions. What sounds like a gimmick could one day be used to help patients who suffer from chronic pain: Researchers have shown that pain caused by heat is experienced as less severe thanks to the rubber hand illusion.
When did human language emerge?
Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.
Dialing in the temperature needed for precise nuclear timekeeping
For decades, atomic clocks have been the pinnacle of precision timekeeping, enabling GPS navigation, cutting-edge physics research, and tests of fundamental theories. But researchers are now pushing beyond atomic transitions to something potentially even more stable: a nuclear clock.
Tax sugar and salt in food to improve health?
Introducing a new salt levy is another proposal put forward in a comprehensive set of recommended regulations for the food sector.
Scientists tune in to rhombohedral graphene's potential
Scientists are investigating how structures made from several layers of graphene stack up in terms of their fundamental physics and their potential as reconfigurable semiconductors for advanced electronics.