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• Animals have personalities, too
We know our siblings and in-laws have personalities — sometimes to a fault. But science recently has revealed that such individual differences are widespread in the animal kingdom, even reaching to spiders, birds, mice, squid, rats and pigs. Now a ...
• Mysterious DNA survives eons of evolution
The researchers compared ultraconserved sequences of at least 100 base pairs shared by humans, macaques and dogs with the DNA of rats and mice. They found that less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the segments shared among the primates and dogs were ...
• Unlocking the secrets of memory
The device, a microchip currently being tested in rats, would perform the same railroad-switch function as the hippocampus does, accepting thoughts on one end and then shunting them into long-term memory on the other. The implications are astounding ...
• Mmm, rodents! China feasts on rat infestation
Tired of fast food? Well, now you can travel to China and try some "pest food." As the country suffers from a plague of a reported 2 billion rats displaced by a flooded lake, many of the creepy creatures are being trucked from central China to the ...
• You've got mail, again: Tips for e-mail overload
The e-mails that now pour into office inboxes and spill onto BlackBerry devices have left some workers feeling so bogged down with online messages that they can find little time to do anything else. "We're like frazzled lab rats, being poked and ...