“I think they can generalize to human eyes somehow, and interpret human eyes as eyes.”
Auguste Bayern, of the University of Oxford, discusses research showing that jackdaws can interpret the movement of human eyes (LiveScience).
“This morning I got a worrying email from Vanessa Woods, a bonobo expert who’s at a bonobo research facility in DRC.”
Science journalist Carl Zimmer is worried about the bonobo. You should be too (The Loom blog).
“It’s a clean technology. We can’t do anything that kills our organisms.”
Angela Belcher, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is making viruses make batteries (Reuters).
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