* Study: dogs link words to object sizes, not 
shapes:
Dogs relate words to objects very differently than
humans do, new research suggests.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121128_words


* That bird wants a word with you:
A study suggests some parrots' talent for imitating
sounds functions to let them address individual
parrots they encounter.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121125_parrots


* New type of bursting star may be a dud:
Some stars explode only halfheartedly, according
to new research.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121121_TypeIa.htm


* Gene that may have helped make people smart ID'd:
A gene known as miR-941 may have helped humans learn
to use tools and language, scientists claim.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121113_miR-941


* Stray stars may haunt vastness between galaxies:
A faint glow of infrared light detected across the
sky may emanate from stars that galactic history
left behind.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121024_straystars


* It's true: cooking may have given us our big brains, 
study says:
New data support a theory that the invention of
cooking almost two million years ago enabled humans
to get smarter.

http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/121022_cooking


ADDITIONAL NEWS


* Deadly heat baked pre-dinosaur world: study:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121019_triassic

* Can you literally throw out unwanted thoughts?:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121126_thoughts

* Happy kids found more likely to get rich:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121120_happiness

* Sadness can hit your pocketbook, study finds:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121115_sadness

* Scientists try to measure animal boredom:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121116_boredom

* Einstein's brain gets a new look-over:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121116_einstein

* Are people getting dumber?:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121113_intelligence

* "Boom times" in star birth gone, never to return, 
study suggests:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121108_StarFormation

* Bird wasn't supposed to make tools, but he did:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121105_cockatoo

* Comet collisions every 6 seconds by distant star?:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121109_49Ceti

* Astronomers tally leftover light from dead, living 
stars:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121102_EBL

* Could dinosaurs have shaped the way mammals see 
the world?:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121101_vision

* Quitting smoking may extend life 10 years:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121028_smoking

* Resveratrol found to fall short in health benefits:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121024_resveratrol

* Did some Neanderthals learn advanced skills 
from "moderns"?:
http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/121030_neanderthal

* Summer babies found less likely to be CEOs:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121023_CEOs


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