New whole-genome research uncovers ancient genetic structure, Denisovan legacies, and human resilience in Earth's harshest environments.

A new study from ECU’s School of Education has found that learning music plays a critical yet often overlooked role in enhancing the wellbeing of children and adolescents, calling for a stronger focus on music education in schools and communities.

If memories are the black box of our past, they can also shed light on the present by giving meaning to new situations. But how does memory retrieve either surface matches (based on same places, same people) or deeper, more conceptual ones (based on similar intentions or actions)? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has shed light on this question, showing that memory tends to favour the substance of a situation —its concept or underlying problem — when it can be linked to familiar mental categories. Otherwise, it defaults to surface-level cues. These findings open up new possibilities for enhancing analogical learning, particularly in educational settings. The results have been published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science.