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* Rats can reflect on their knowledge, study finds: New research was touted as the first to find this ability in animals other than primates. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070308_rats.htm * Robot walks and swims: A new device demonstrates that nature often offers the best solutions for robot design, researchers say. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070308_salamander.htm * Probe to explore deepest known sinkhole: A robotic sub explores and maps unknown, subterranean waters -- a possible prelude to a probe on a distant moon. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070308_sinkhole.htm * Little genomes for big dinosaurs: They might be giants, but many dinosaurs apparently had genomes no larger than that of a hummingbird. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070307_dinosaur.htm * Unifying principle said to govern all galaxies: The discovery could say something deep about the cosmos, astronomers claim. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070306_galaxies.htm * Therapy for traumatized Iraq vets: Iraq again, virtually: An unusual treatment has worked for a few troubled war veterans, psychologists report. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070306_virtual-iraq.htm * "Mafia" behavior noted in birds: Researchers have found a new low in the ways of some parasitic birds, which impose their progeny on other birds. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070305_parasitic-bird.htm *************************************************** Invite friends to join World Science for free! Do your friends or colleagues a favor. Just click here to open an invitation email you can send them so they can join you in subscribing to World Science at no charge. Feel free to change the email text (although you might want to leave the subscription instructions unchanged.) Any article on the World Science site 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. 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, please write to this email address and request the change. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.7/711 - Release Date: 3/5/2007 9:41 AM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
