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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.  |
| 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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