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2,556 results for: Cats

  1. Letters

    Lumpy lunar illusion Are you folks aware of a phenomenon based on the universal expectation that objects are illuminated by light coming from above? Several startling optical illusions are based on this quirk of the mind. For example, the sharp moon map in “Orbiter delivers sharp moon map” (SN: 7/30/11, p. 12) makes the moon […]

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  2. Find “extinct” fish alive in South African waters

    A “living fossil” gets new family members as more coelacanths turn up.

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  3. Concentrated Guidance: Attention training gives kids a cognitive push

    A brief course on how to pay attention boosts children's scores on either intelligence or attention tests, depending on their age.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Beyond Hearing: Cochlear implants work best when given early

    Children born deaf who receive cochlear implants as toddlers show brain activity that's more normal than that of children getting the implants later in childhood.

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  5. Science Past from the issue of January 26, 1963

    DOGS FOUND COLOR-BLIND — Some animals are able to distinguish colors but others are practically color-blind, Dr. Gerti Duecker, zoologist of the University of Muenster, West Germany, has determined by a series of tests. Dr. Duecker found cats and dogs to be color-blind, although there is some evidence that some dogs have a faint sense […]

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  6. Letters to the editor

    Get a grip The article “Pruney fingers get better grip” (SN: 2/9/13, p. 11) indicated that skin wrinkling in response to extended exposure to water was the result of constricting blood vessels. I was waiting to read about the possibility that this was the body’s response to prevent heat loss. Water has a high heat […]

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  7. Humans

    Intel ISEF honors teens’ science

    Winners of science competition announced.

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  8. Genetics

    A glowing green thumb

    Omri Amirav-Drory wants to engineer a glow-in-the-dark garden.

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  9. A Very Improbable Story by Edward Einhorn and Adam Gustavson

    A cat named Odds plays games of probability with a young boy in this children’s book. Charlesbridge, 2008, 32 p., $16.95 A Very Improbable Story by Edward Einhorn and Adam Gustavson

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  10. Life

    Three dino types may be just three dino ages

    Study suggests three dinos placed in separate taxa are actually from one group at different growth stages

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  11. Life

    Do-it-yourself bed-bug detector

    With bed-bug numbers on the rise in North America, researchers test homemade bug finders.

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  12. Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog

    Review by Susan Milius.

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