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• Smell you later! Chemosignals communicate human emotions
• Cockatoo 'can make its own tools'
• People can learn to sense with 'rat's whiskers' on fingers; May improve aids for the blind
• Vehicles, roadways 'talk' in efforts to improve traffic safety
• Young birds can get 'drunk' on fermented berries: Effects similar to those for people, only drunk birds have much further to fall

Smell you later! Chemosignals communicate human emotions Posted: 05 Nov 2012 11:04 AM PST Many animal species transmit information via chemical signals, but the extent to which these chemosignals play a role in human communication is unclear. Researchers have investigated whether we humans might actually be able to communicate our emotional states to each other through chemical signals.

Cockatoo 'can make its own tools' Posted: 05 Nov 2012 11:02 AM PST A cockatoo from a species not known to use tools in the wild has been observed spontaneously making and using tools for reaching food and other objects.

People can learn to sense with 'rat's whiskers' on fingers; May improve aids for the blind Posted: 05 Nov 2012 07:09 AM PST A new experiment in which volunteers learned to sense objects' locations using just "rat whiskers" may help improve aids for the blind.

Vehicles, roadways 'talk' in efforts to improve traffic safety Posted: 05 Nov 2012 06:26 AM PST One day, your auto and the roadway will be in constant communication and able to suggest route changes to avoid accidents, construction, and congestion; coordinate your vehicle with signal lights, other vehicles, and lane markers; and let you know where you can park. Right now, a fleet of instrumented vehicles are testing these systems on two instrumented test beds -- one in Northern Virginia and one in Southwestern Virginia.

Young birds can get 'drunk' on fermented berries: Effects similar to those for people, only drunk birds have much further to fall Posted: 02 Nov 2012 05:51 PM PDT Young birds can get "drunk" on fermented berries and exhibit all the symptoms familiar to people who overindulge, indicates a small study.

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