* Bizarre dinos found:
A fossil with a stupendously multi-horned face and
another likened to a giant rhino with a supersized
head have reportedly turned up in Utah.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/100922_dinos
* Worried about kids getting fat? Maybe get a
dog:
Children with dogs spend on average 11 less minutes
per day sitting on their behinds than kids without,
a U.K. study has found.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/100921_dog
* Physicists claim first true random number
generation:
Most seemingly random events aren't really random.
But in the quantum world, things may be different.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/100912_random
* In war on germs, "backstabbers" might be our
friends on the inside:
Some microbes just drag down companions that are
working to keep an infection going, researchers say.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/100905_bacteria
* Money CAN buy happiness, within limits: study:
Up to an income of about $75,000, Americans rate
their everyday experiences more highly with
increasing income, researchers found.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/100908_happiness
* A "fundamental" number may be shifty:
New findings may imply that the universe is
infinite, and also stir up controversy, some
astronomers say.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/100907_fsc
ADDITIONAL NEWS
* AIDS virus ancestor over 32,000 years old,
study finds:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/100920_siv
* Brain region linked to introspective thinking:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/100916_introspection
* Freshwater turtles in "catastrophic decline":
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/100915_turtles
* Dummy pill may improve women's sex life:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/100917_placebo
* Solar system's distant ice-rocks come into
focus:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/100914_tnos
* Giving robots the ability to deceive:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/100909_robots
* Organic farms have better fruit, soil, environ-
ment, study finds:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/100902_organic
* INTERVIEW: Stephen P. Diggle
A leading microbiologist talks about the medical and
evolutionary implications of a study on "back-
stabbing bacteria."
http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/100905_diggle-intv.htm
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