- Researchers found that sex makes people happier than money does and that it makes rich people happier than poor people.
- It was discovered that women are less likely to marry poor men when men are plentiful
- Nobel Prize-winning biologist James Watson was found to be 16 percent black.
- Scientists announced that divorce and bagpipes are bad for the environment.
- Researchers trained dogs to recognize pictures of dogs
- Researchers found that young chimpanzees have a better photographic memory than adult humans
- Researchers established that male macaques will pay to look at pictures of female macaques’ buttocks and of dominant male macaques' faces but must be paid to look at the faces of females or of subordinate males.
- Scientists observed that sugary drinks increase the risk of Alzheimer's
- Researchers found that 70 percent of voters who claim to be undecided have already made up their minds
- It is estimated that genes are responsible for 53 percent of an eligible voter’s likelihood of voting and for 46 percent of a voter’s “partisan intensity,” and determined that conservatives startle more easily than liberals.
- A United States Government model projected that all US adults will be overweight by 2048.
- The statistical value of an American’s life has dropped by $1 million in the past five years.
Studies revealed that medieval monks may have been poisoned by red ink, and that European populations have lower HIV resistance the longer they were ruled by the Roman Empire. - In Lake Elsinore, California, a family of bobcats moved into a foreclosed house.
- Non-native eagle owls (Bubo bubo) in Britain were attacking pedestrians, and in New Zealand the invasive Australian oyster blenny (Omobranchus anolius) was found to be feasting on local barnacles’ penises.
- A British study found that natural disasters have quadrupled in the past two decades.
- Biologists found that English soccer teams with red uniforms tend to win more often and score more goals than other teams.
- An Australian study reported that college students make up 40 percent of Melbourne’s prostitutes
- Scientists announced that it took a long time to tame the wild ass.
- Russian officials discovered a boy who was raised among birds and speaks only in chirps.
- A sex hormone was found in the drinking water of San Francisco
- Anti-anxiety medications were found in the drinking water of Southern California
- Honeybees can recognize individual human faces.
- Goldfish have reasonably good memories.
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