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  1. Health & Medicine

    BOOK LIST | Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds

    The alien minds are of animals. The question: Can robots mimic them? Oxford Univ. Press, 2008, 252 p., $34.95. GUILTY ROBOTS, HAPPY DOGS: THE QUESTION OF ALIEN MINDS

    By Science News
  2. Earth

    Sun is setting on incandescent era

    After more than a century, Edison's light bulbs stand poised to go extinct.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Humans

    The boffo science budget won’t last

    Enjoy the largesse that Uncle Sam is doling out for research, a budget analyst warns, because it may disappear very soon.

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Math

    Chicks do arithmetic

    Using the natural inclination of young chickens to cluster in large groups, researchers show that the birds are hatched with a numerical sense.

    By Susan Milius
  5. Health & Medicine

    Caloric restriction extends life in monkeys, study finds

    New study finds calorie restriction delays age-related diseases in monkeys. Another study reports that an immune-suppressing drug helps elderly mice live longer.

    By Tina Hesman Saey

  6. Smart from the start

    Animal embryos get some respect for their survival skills.

    By Susan Milius
  7. Health & Medicine

    Certain carbs boost fat burning

    Smarter breakfasting will help boost the value of exercise.

    By Janet Raloff
  8. Life

    Sting Operation

    Scientists use bees and wasps to sniff out the illicit and the dangerous.

    By Susan Gaidos
  9. Life

    Fifty-two things to do with a bat wing

    Bats swim, run, flirt and do lots of other nonflight jobs with their wings -- a fact that may have influenced evolution of the wing's architecture.

    By Susan Milius
  10. Life

    Anti-aging: A little stress may keep cells youthful

    The aging-related Sirtuin 1 protein also regulates heat shock response, a mechanism cells use to combat stress.

    By Solmaz Barazesh
  11. Health & Medicine

    Possible anticancer power in fasting every other day

    When mice ate as important as what they ate in reducing cell division linked to cancer, new study reports.

    By Laura Sanders
  12. Life

    Wild herring prove fast organizers

    Recent technology helps researchers find out how a bunch of fish turn into a shoal.

    By Susan Milius