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Leeloo, the Fifth Element, could learn by heart books in a matter of seconds, but you should calm down, as real people cannot remember a thousand different things at once. This is just impossible, as a new research shows that the average person's short-term memory can only stick four items at a time.The team of ... |
13 July 2007
06:07 GMT |
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We tend to see the apes that are closer to us as being more intelligent, like chimps and bonobos, while orangutans are seen like red clowns. This conception persists despite the fact that many tests have proven a high cognitive ability in this ape. Now they astonished scientists with an Aesop's fable-like situat... |
5 July 2007
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Who is older, Dexter or Deedee? Apparently, the answer to this question is Dexter, as revealed by a new research made on 250,000 military draftees in Norway. Firstborn children have appeared to score significantly higher in IQ tests than their younger siblings, something linked by researchers to social, not biologica... |
22 June 2007
15:31 GMT |
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Parrots remain the most popular pet birds. This is due to their fascinating colors, their intelligence, attachment to their owners and their ability to imitate the human voice, but also to their adaptability to the captive life. This is exactly what led many species to the brink of extinction, and some species are al... |
19 June 2007
15:21 GMT |
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A big brain means more intelligence. Even without adjusting the brain size to the body size, this remains valid, as found by a mix team from Grand Valley State University and the Anthropological Institute and Museum at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. "It's long been known that species with larger body sizes ge... |
21 May 2007
09:13 GMT |
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Birdbrain is for many an insult. But researches have proven that some birds can be really intelligent, even if their intelligence is different from that of the mammals and has other brain support. Some birds can be highly intelligent, like the raven, which is very surprising.Dr Bernd Heinrich and Dr Thomas Bugnyar fr... |
18 May 2007
04:23 GMT |
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People have been amazed since Antiquity by dolphins' intelligent behavior. 2,000 years ago, the Greek poet Opian said "The dolphins are humans that at the demand of the Dionysus (a Greek god) changed the ground with the sea, taking fish shape". The high intelligence of the dolphins is regarded as a reaction to ... |
8 May 2007
16:07 GMT |
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Looking at the beautiful androids from SF movies, you should know that they could be built only when a computer could function like a human brain. In fact, researchers have been improving the computer intelligence for half a century now, but they also largely ignored the most intelligent thing in nature: the human br... |
20 March 2007
06:55 GMT |
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