Anyone see this? I'd love to be publshed and these kids are at age 8!

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/kids-study-bees/

I saw that yesterday. Hopefully some of those kids will be inspired to carry on and become PhDers one day

I saw this too, and have read the paper - it's actually very very good. Obviously not as detailed as if they were fully fledged postdocs or whatever, but on basic principles it's superb, and an excellent read. The children, their teachers, and everyone else involved should be proud, and the neuroscientist at UCL who helped them should get some kind of award.

I saw this the other day too and have to say, reading the abstract and commentary it really brought a tear to my eye. It is such a fantastic demonstration of how to really inspire children, and how able they are of doing something great when they have the encouragement. Good luck to them in the future! They would all make great scientists. I smiled most at the last line of the acknowledgements: "The project was funded privately by Lottolab Studio, as the referees argued that young people cannot do real science"