Tag: Dogs
By Design: Storytelling Reveals Human Exceptionalism
That humans enjoy being made to wait seems to have been deliberately built into us. It’s unique in nature, an intelligent design.
New Engineering Ideas from Biology
The 2023 Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, organized by the CSC’s Engineering Research Group, is set for June 1-3 in Denton, Texas.
Can a Dog Be Bred to Be as Smart as a Human?
An enterprising electrical engineer, Payton Pearson, thinks it can be done. There are reasons for doubt.
MicroRNAs: A New Clue About Octopus Intelligence?
While octopus brains are very different from vertebrate brains, they share with vertebrates, a huge number of microRNAs.
Cats Recognize and Respond to Our Voices
If you are a cat’s human friend, he cares when you talk to him. Whether he will, or even can, do what you want is a separate question.