AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION
Why does Tennessee now have wild hogs in about 80 of its 95 counties when they were confined to a handful a few decades ago?
A 1999 hunting season with no bag limit was meant to cut Tennessee鈥檚 wild hog numbers, but it made the hogs worth moving, and people released them where they wanted to hunt.
TENNESSEENORTH CAROLINACOTTON MC GUIREOX WAGON
BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Moken sea nomad children see more than twice as sharply underwater as European children, and when researchers gave four European girls 11 training sessions in a month, they later caught up
The Moken children鈥檚 eyes were ordinary; what set them apart was how they used them underwater, and four European girls learned to do the same.
THAILANDMYANMARSEA CUCUMBERSLUND UNIVERSITY
POLITICS AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS
Most US lobster-trap tags that washed up on two Azores islands came from Maine, more than 3,000 km away, in a count of 1,577 pieces of North American gear with tags registered as far back as 1983
The plastic tags required on every US and Canadian lobster trap work like return addresses, and a nine-year beach collection in the Azores has used them to show where much of the gear came from and that it can last for decades, though not how much of it is out there.
NEW HAMPSHIREMAINECHRISTOPHER K PHAM
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Your dentist is part of your longevity program
Gum disease might cost you more than your teeth鈥攊t could cost you years of life.
USCHILDRENNATTOKINASE
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Palmer Luckey wants oxytocin used in marriage counselling. The longest controlled dosing in couples ran seven days, and measured wound healing.
Palmer Luckey says he'd end the tragedy of divorce with oxytocin doping. But no trial has ever measured whether oxytocin keeps a couple together, the longest controlled dosing in couples ran seven days, and voles bond fine without the receptor at all.
USAUSTRALIAQUINTANADEVANAND MANOLI