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Welcome to the Science Podcast for July 21st, 2017.

I'm Sarah Crespi.

In this week's show, Sima Jaya Chandran talks about trading carbon for cash in Uganda.

Rachel Bernstein, editor of our career section, brings us some career planning advice for early career scientists.

And David Grimm is here to give us this week's hits from our online news site.

Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.

He's here to talk about some recent online stories.

First up, we have a story on hyper-social dogs, or at least very social dogs.

Why are dogs so friendly? I mean, we're not even going to talk about cats here, but just dogs are just, you know, they love to see you coming. They're like, just they go up to strangers,

if they're, you know, a nice dog.

And do we breed them to be that way is kind of the big question. Now it looks like researchers have found a region of the genome in dogs that correlates with this kind of socialness in the dog.

How did they find this, Dave?

Well, sir, they took a bit of a long shot here,

and the reason they focused on this region, this is on dog chromosome six, is because there's an analogous region in humans that's been linked to a disorder called Williams-Beran

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