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8 Year-olds Publish Scientific Paper in Peer Reviewed Journal</a>
</b></h2>Research on bees conducted by a class of 8-10 year olds was
published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, complete with crayon
illustrations.<br><br>
In the paper published in Biology Letters, children from Blackawton
Primary School reported that buff-tailed bumblebees can learn to
recognize nourishing flowers based on colors and patterns.<br><br>
The paper is written entirely by the kids, who may be the youngest
scientists ever to be published in a peer-reviewed scientific
journal.<br><br>
Their principal finding: "We discovered that bumble-bees can use a
combination of color and spatial relationships in deciding which color of
flower to forage from. We also discovered that science is cool and fun
because you get to do stuff that no one has ever done
before."<br><br>
(<b>READ</b> the
<a href="http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/12/18/rsbl.2010.1056.full">
paper at Royal Society Publishing</a>) <br><br>
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