Science by 8-year-olds

I thought I was going into Christmas recess, but then I saw this:

Graduate students the world over have got to be feeling like slackers right now: A group of 8- to 10-year-old British schoolchildren have published a scientific paper in the peer-reviewed (Royal Society) journal Biology Letters.

Also spricht, not Zarathustra, but Live Science in

8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Study on Bees

This is a must-read, both for the experiment itself and the wider implications.  For the latter, I would recommend the podcast first.  The page also contains links to a free downloadable PDF of the actual paper.

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