Heavy metal poisoning may be changing birds’ personalities
22 March 2018
Great tits exposed to toxic metals like cadmium and lead alter their behaviour, becoming less exploratory and more cautious, suggesting their personalities have been reshaped
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Earthquake AI makes it easier to predict devastation of strikes
16 March 2018
A new computer system can identify seismic activity with twice the accuracy of the current best algorithms and is nearly as good as human experts
Dan McKenzie: The man who made Earth move
22 November 2017
50 years ago, the theory of plate tectonics was radical counterculture – until some chance happenings in the Summer of Love sent it mainstream
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
Ravens can plan for future as well as 4-year-old children can
13 July 2017
The smart birds seem to have evolved this flexible cognitive ability independently from hominids as the two lineages diverged about 320 million years ago
