New fossil shows “Lucy” to have been steady on her feet
February 10th, 2011 |
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At some point in the past five million years or so, our human ancestors traded in an arboreal existence for a dedicated two-legged life on the ground. A patchy fossil record, however, has frustrated researchers hoping to pinpoint the emergence of more modern human upright walking. Even the gait of the well-studied "Lucy" species, Australopithecus [...]
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Running barefoot is better, researchers find
January 27th, 2010 |
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Mother Nature has outpaced science once again: the bare human foot is better for running than one cushioned by sneakers. What about those $125 high-tech running shoes with 648 custom combinations? Toss ‘em, according to a new study published online January 27 in the journal Nature (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group). "Most [...]
Keep reading »Who Needs Investment: Let’s Have an Infrastructure Film Festival
September 4th, 2012 |
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The television show “Revolution” is getting ready to start, with its plot based on the failure of the electrical grid. That’s nothing new, though — the most recent Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises,” and Spiderman movie, “The Amazing Spiderman,” came out this summer, each with significant events or themes involving infrastructure systems. Half of the [...]
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