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11 February 2022
Our award-winning festival, New Scientist Live is back to stimulate, challenge and inspire with some of today’s biggest scientific discoveries and ideas.
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Horses remember if you smiled or frowned when they last saw you
26 April 2018
Horses can remember the expressions on people’s faces and use them to make judgements about whether people are nice or unpleasant
Dog brain scans show if they are looking at a happy or sad face
29 March 2018
Dogs can recognise different human facial expressions, like happy or sad, and now a simple brain scan can reveal which expression a dog is looking at
Advertising campaign for monkeys uses sex to sell brands
27 February 2018
Everyone knows that in advertising sex sells, and it turns out that sex-themed adverts even work on rhesus macaques
Life lessons: The tiny neuro-gadgets rebuilding our bodies
7 February 2018
Nature's designs are helping to build amazing new devices that link to the body and each other, reveals a fascinating book called Bioinspired Devices
After crows fight they touch and preen each other to make up
20 December 2017
Carrion crows sometimes have violent squabbles over food, but afterwards the aggressor will often sit by the victim as if to console them and reconcile
Why do female monkeys spend so long looking at rugged males?
4 December 2017
Female monkeys spend more time staring at males that have highly masculine facial features, but we don’t know if they fancy them or fear them
Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles
8 November 2017
The animals were as good as humans at recognising mugshots of the same celebs from different angles, showing sophisticated brain processing of imagery
Even toddlers expect bullies to get more than their fair share
7 July 2017
For the first time, there’s evidence that even 17-month-old infants expect socially dominant people to be treated differently in life, and to get more things
