High Pay, High Times People who collect fat paychecks are more likely to enjoy happening social lives with their co-workers than are lower-paid workers. Those in lucrative positions enjoy more freedom and get more camaraderie from teamwork.
Tiny Winged Soldiers Pesky little moths are smarter that you think. Scientists have succeeded in teaching the buggers to distinguish between different odors, proving once and for all that insects don't run on instinct alone. Researchers hope to put moths to work detecting scents associated with biological and chemical weapons.
Women See Things Differently Women perceive a broader array of colors in the red/orange range than men do, new research shows. Their skill in seeing nuances of shading results from greater variation in a gene that codes for color vision. Today's ability to pick out the perfect sweater shade likely goes back to our hunter-gatherer days, when women had to discriminate among colored fruits, insects and background foliage.
