Wednesday, September 22, 2010

World Science: Bizarre dinos found

* 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


****************************************************


World Science homepage
Don't forget to visit our homepage for Science In
Images; links to top science news from other publi-
cations; and other recent World Science stories!

http://www.world-science.net


World Science archives
To new readers especially: you need not miss our ex-
citing past stories, though they won't appear in future
newsletters. See archives for any year by typing that 
year after the homepage address: for example, 

http://www.world-science.net/2007


Invite friends to join World Science!
Click here to open an invitation email you can send 
friends and colleagues so they can join you in sub-
scribing to World Science
at no charge. Feel free to 
change the email text
(although you might want to 
leave the subscription
instructions unchanged.)


More information

This is the World Science newsletter. To cancel your 
subscription, please reply to this email address with
"cancel" in the subject line. To subscribe, write to 
this email address with "subscribe" in the subject 
line. To change the address where you receive the 
newsletter, simply subscribe the new address and 
cancel the old one.
Any World Science article may be reproduced on 
another website, on condition that it is reproduced 
along with a link to the World Science homepage, 
http://www.world-science.net. Linking to the page of 
the original article is optional.

No comments: