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Lockdowns Did Not Significantly Affect Young People’s Mental Health

CORONA Young people’s mental health has not been affected by the two corona lockdowns, a new study from the University of Copenhagen concludes. But in the short run, it did suffer temporarily.

Traces from the Past

Scientists recover an ancient woman’s DNA from a 20,000-year-old pendant

Shedding Light on Linguistic Diversity and Its Evolution

Linguists and computer scientists collaborate to publish a large global Open Access lexical database

The Bantu Expansion Took a Rainforest Route

A recent linguistic study found that early Bantu speakers crossed through the dense Central African Rainforest 4,000 years ago

Genes and Tongues Are Not Always Tied Together

GeLaTo, a global database, helps to explore the complex history of our genes and languages

How Dogs Are Used Impacts How They Are Treated

Data from 124 societies shows that dogs’ functions predict their treatment, with closer bonds forming in societies where dogs have multiple roles

Grambank Shows the Diversity of the World's Languages

An international team has created a new database that documents patterns of grammatical variation in over 2400 of the world’s languages

Long Distance Voyaging Among the Pacific Islands

Geochemical analyses of stone artefacts reveal long-distance voyaging among Pacific Islands during the last millennium

Tracing Chile’s Indigenous Roots Through Genetics and Linguistics

Genetic analysis adds new perspectives on the (pre)history of South America - from the first settlement until today

Social Hierarchies and Social Networks in Humans

Across species, social hierarchies are often governed by dominance relations.

Investigating Sex Differences in Genetic Relatedness in Great-tailed Grackles in Tempe, Arizona to Infer Potential Sex Biases in Dispersal

In most bird species, females disperse prior to their first breeding attempt, while males remain close to the place they hatched.

Are the More Flexible Great-Tailed Grackles Also Better at Behavioral Inhibition?

Behavioral flexibility should, theoretically, be positively related to behavioral inhibition because one should need to inhibit a previously learned behavior to change their behavior when the task changes (flexibility).

New Sleep Molecule Discovered: “It Shows Just How Complex The Machinery Of Sleep Is”

CELL BIOLOGY Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Aalborg University presents a new study demonstrating that a small molecule in brain cells affects the level of hypocretin, which is responsible for making us feel awake during the day and tired at night. People with a genetic variation of this molecule have a higher risk of suffering from daytime sleepiness.

Michigan researchers create ultrathin ferroelectric semiconductor for next-generation computing: 'This will be very important'

A team of researchers at the University of Michigan has developed an ultrathin ferroelectric semiconductor, measuring just 5 nanometers thick, with the potential to revolutionize computing and power next-generation technologies.

Coevolution of Relative Brain Size and Life Expectancy in Parrots

Previous studies have demonstrated a correlation between longevity and brain size in a variety of taxa.

Research Discovery Reveals How A Cancer Cell Resists Radiation Treatment

CANCER Radiation is usually an effective treatment for cancer. Unfortunately, cancer cells are frequently able to defend themselves against the treatment. But now researchers from the University of Copenhagen have shown how cancer cells defend themselves, and their discovery may help ensure that this frontline treatment can save more lives.

Thousands Of Intestinal Viruses Have Now Been Mapped. And They Can Be Used To Fight Antibiotic Resistance

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE A new method developed at the University of Copenhagen has been used to identify more than 1,000 different types of bactericidal viruses in the human intestines. The researchers behind the new study believe the discovery may help fight antibiotic resistance.

Expanding the Understanding of Majority‑bias in Children’s Social Learning

Prior experiments with children across seven different societies have indicated U‑shaped age patterns in the likelihood of copying majority demonstrations.

Forest Income and Livelihoods on Pemba: a Quantitative Ethnography

This paper offers a systematic approach to quantifying the socio-economic role of forests for 'forest-dependent' communities.