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  1. Rescue Rat: Could wired rodents save the day?

    Researchers have wired a rat's brain so that someone at a laptop computer can steer the animal through mazes and over rubble.

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  2. Baby talk goes to the dogs, and cats

    Acoustic differences in the "baby talk" that mothers use with their infants and with family pets support the notion that adults use this form of speech to teach language skills to their babies.

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  3. Paleontology

    Bone Crushers: Teeth reveal changing times in the Pleistocene

    Tooth-fracture incidence among dire wolves in the fossil record can indicate how much bone the carnivores crunched and, therefore, something about the ecology of their time.

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  4. Such jokers, those Komodo dragons

    A study of a young Komodo dragon reveals what a behaviorist says would be considered play if seen in a dog or cat.

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  5. Animals

    Strong Medicine: Over-the-counter remedy snags snakes

    Acetaminophen—the active ingredient in Tylenol—vanquishes brown tree snakes, the bane of Guam.

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  6. Earth

    Cigarette smoke can harm kitty, too

    Compared with animals living in smokefree homes, cats who lived for some time with a smoker at least doubled their risk of developing the feline analog of the cancer non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

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  7. Brain cells work together to pay attention

    Cells in the brain's cortex may coordinate their electrical activity as attention shifts from visual to tactile information.

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  8. Bacteria give carpet a nasty smell

    A compound produced by bacteria may be responsible for the "cat urine" smell of some new carpeting.

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  9. Archaeology

    Neandertals’ diet put meat in their bones

    Chemical analyses of Neandertals' bones portray these ancient Europeans as skillful hunters and avid meat eaters, countering a theory that they mainly scavenged scraps of meat from abandoned carcasses.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Did colonization spread ulcers?

    A comparison of strains of Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium that causes ulcers, suggests that colonists brought it to the New World.

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  11. Earth

    Candid cameras catch rare Asian cats

    Remote cameras have confirmed that despite 30 years of armed conflict, jungle cats and many other large mammals continue to thrive in Cambodia.

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  12. Parasite deludes rats into liking cats

    A protozoan that infects rats dims their wariness around cats and can even lead to what Oxford researchers call a fatal attraction.

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