The man who reads dog minds and personalities in a brain scanner
23 August 2017
Gregory Berns coaxes dogs into MRI scanners to see what's going on in their heads. It even reveals if they would make good helpers for people with disabilities
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Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten
23 August 2017
The past 15 years have called into question every assumption about who we are and where we came from. Turns out our evolution is more baffling than we thought
Magic mushroom chemical may be a hallucinogenic insect repellent
23 August 2017
These fungi influence our brains by producing a compound called psilocybin, but the origin of this chemical may have little to do with discovering fundamental truth
Antarctic mystery microbe could tell us where viruses came from
21 August 2017
Viruses are not like other organisms and nobody is quite sure where they originated, but a newly discovered single-celled organism seems to offer a clue
Solving how fish swim so well may help design underwater robots
21 August 2017
Trout, dolphins and killer whales swim in remarkably similar ways – and a model of how they use little energy to do so may help design better aquatic robots
Grown-up chimps are less likely to help distressed friends
18 August 2017
Chimpanzees of all ages will comfort upset companions, but adult chimps do it less – perhaps because they are more selective about who they help
Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar
17 August 2017
There is a cluster of neurons in monkeys’ brains that decides whether or not they have seen objects before, and stimulating it makes them see everything as familiar
Weird creatures are spreading polluting plastic through the sea
16 August 2017
Plastic particles sink to the seabed after being eaten and excreted by animals called larvaceans, which could be why we see less floating plastic than expected
