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- Animals
Hot tail gives warning
Ground squirrels can heat up their tails to signal and perhaps taunt rattlesnakes.
- Humans
Words of the distant past
Human ancestors may have been able to talk as far back as 350,000 years ago.
- Tech
Surviving Olympic Heat
Athletes competing in the Athens Olympic Games will rely on training and new technology to cope with high temperatures.
- Fossils
Fingerprinting fossils
Researchers can find out in what kind of soil a fossil was originally buried.
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- Physics
The pressure of scuba diving
If done without proper precautions, scuba diving can be a painful experience.
- Psychology
Roller coaster thrills
Riding roller coasters is about the need that some people have to seek thrills and take risks.
- Brain
A dog’s amazingly large vocabulary
A border collie named Rico recognizes a surprisingly large number of words.
- Environment
A newspaper’s hidden cost
Getting a newspaper electronically would be much better for the planet than receiving the paper version.
- Tech
Spinach power for solar cells
A solar cell based on chemicals taken from spinach and bacteria converts light into electricity.
- Tech
The Incredible Shrunken Kids
Researchers are using nanotechnology to develop superfast computers, amazing materials, and tiny robots.
- Earth
Distant quake changes geyser eruptions
An Alaskan earthquake changed the timing of geysers thousands of miles away.
