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- Humans
Science News of the Year 2006
A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2006.
- Math
Dogs Catching Frisbees
When navigating to intercept a thrown Frisbee, dogs appear to use the same geometric strategy that a baseball fielder employs to snag a fly ball hit into the outfield.
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A Fetching Lexicon: Language clues come from dog’s vocabulary
A research team finds that a 9-year-old border collie displays a keen facility for learning word meanings, providing new support for the theory that simple types of thinking practiced by some nonhuman animals also make word learning possible in toddlers.
- Humans
From the June 22, 1935, issue
Beauty in a police radio transmitter, a new aid in controlling diabetes, and mathematical help for cake bakers.
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Sit, Stay, Speak
If dogs could verbally comment on the scientific study of canine minds and how they really think, it might sound something like this.
- Earth
Dirty Little Secret
Recognition is growing that many communities have soils laced with asbestos, which has prodded several federal agencies to probe the hazards they might pose.
- Math
Ask-a-Friend Marketplaces
If you ask enough friends, paying for answers to questions can help you get the answers you need from a social network.
- Humans
Books for Late Summer
The writers of Science News present wide-ranging recommendations of books for readers to pack for their late-summer vacations.
- Health & Medicine
Calories May Not Count in Life Extension
In fruit flies, shifting the concentrations of nutrients while only modestly cutting calories extends lifespan just as much as a drastic calorie cut does.
- Animals
How dingoes got down under
DNA analysis suggests that Australia got its famous dingoes from a very few dogs brought along with people fanning out from East Asia some 5,000 years ago.
- Humans
Letters from the February 12, 2005, issue of Science News
Short end of the chromosome Since “women with chronically ill children generally reported more stress” and since “there was a very striking connection between stress and telomere length” (“Stressed to Death: Mental tension ages cells,” SN: 12/4/04, p. 355), isn’t it probable that there is a strong connection between telomere length and becoming the parent […]
- Math
New largest prime discovered
Computers have discovered a new largest prime number with a whopping 7,816,230 digits.
