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Humans: Science News Of The Year, 2008
Science News — Read summaries of the year's best stories on research about human history and behavior. Brazil's Pirahã people can't count on using words for the number During testing, questions arose about whether the Pirahã really possessed nonverbal ...More…
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Swarm Savvy / Science News
Science News — How bees, ants and other animals avoid dumb collective decisions This is a phone conversation, so if Tom Seeley rolls his eyes, that's his business. He's a distinguished behavioral biologist, full professor at Cornell University, member of the ...More…
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Males, Females Swap Sex-role Stereotypes / Science News
Science News — Chuck that nonsense about "men are from Mars, women are from Venus." Here on Earth, the sexes play the mating game with a flexible set of rules. A new study suggests that scientists should abandon the idea that males evolved to be promiscuous ...More…
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Expansive Genetic Diversity In Africa Revealed / Science ...
Science News — Study is largest DNA comparison yet among continent's populations The largest genetic study of African populations reveals a greater genetic diversity of the continent's cultural groups than previously known, scientists say. The study also yields ...More…
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FOR KIDS: A Bird That Keeps The Beat / Science News
Science News — A dancing cockatoo shows that humans aren't the only animals with rhythm The idea for a science experiment can come from an unusual place. After watching a YouTube video of a dancing bird named Snowball, a scientist in California decided to study ...More…
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SN: 3/28/09, p. 14
Science News — Fossil studies add some new twists to debate about a tiny, humanlike species Fossil hobbits followed a simple motto: Walk, don't run. That's the implication of a new analysis of foot bones from an 18,000-year-old partial skeleton assigned to the . ...More…
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Naturwissenschaften
Science News — Study makes researchers wonder whether they should treat fungus or not Biocides used in recent years to treat the growth of a black fungus on the cave-art-festooned walls of France's Lascaux cave have eradicated some populations of ...More…
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Stone Age Figurine Has Contentious Origins / Science News
Science News — Ivory female carving may be at least 35,000 years old, alter views of how Stone Age art developed Some women have mysterious pasts, but a few have mysterious prehistories. Archaeologist Nicholas Conard of the University of Tübingen in Germany has ...More…
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School-age Lead Exposures Most Harmful To IQ / Science News
Science News — High concentrations in children's blood also linked to brain-tissue losses and future criminality Testing for lead only in infants and toddlers may be a mistake, a new study suggests. Pediatricians routinely test very young children because this ...More…
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EPA Says Greenhouse Gases 'endanger' Health / Science News
Science News — The Environmental Protection Agency issued a landmark ruling today. It said that "greenhouse gases contribute to air pollution ... The greenhouse gases that are responsible for it endanger public health and welfare within the meaning of the Clean ...More…
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Island Press, 2009, 307 p., $24.95.
Science News — Hightower eventually traces the symptoms to diets rich in big fish such as tuna and swordfish, the types that accumulate high concentrations of methylmercury. Her cure: Forgo eating fish for up to a year. Now Hightower takes readers along on her ...More…
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Barron's Educational Series, 2009, 960 p., $35.
Science News — Countless inventions, large and small, have played defining roles in human history. But when editor Jack Challoner began to compile a list of these innovations, he wondered if 1,001 might be too many. He quickly realized the number was far too small.More…