Gender of speaker may affect how we understand words

Last Updated: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 13:01

Sex of a speaker may determine how quickly and accurately we understand words, a new study suggests.

Gender of speaker may affect language processing

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 20:10

Sex of a speaker may determine how quickly and accurately we understand words, a new study suggests.

Antarctica harboured strange forests 250 million years ago?

Last Updated: Monday, November 4, 2013, 17:59

Weird forests with certain features of modern tropical trees may have sprouted in Antarctica about 250 million years ago, a new study has found.

120,000-year-old Neanderthal rib shows sign of bone tumour

Last Updated: Thursday, June 6, 2013, 12:03

The first case of a bone tumour of the ribs in a Neanderthal specimen reveals that at least one Neanderthal suffered a cancer that is common in modern-day humans, according to a new research.

Dinosaurs possibly the earliest animals to get toothache

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 15:39

Scientists found the fossilised jawbone of Sinosaurus, presumed to have existed 190 million years ago, and concluded that it could be the earliest discovered animal that had a toothache.