City mice are SMARTER than their country cousins! Rodents in urban areas are better at problem solving as they’ve had to adapt to living alongside humans, study reveals Thirty-one striped field mice were captured from the wild as part of the study Scientists gave them a set of challenges in a cage where they had … Read more
Smarter ways to save in 2021: The ‘autosave’ apps that analyse your bills and spending to calculate how much you can squirrel away By Sylvia Morris For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 29 December 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 29 December 2020 This year proved how important a savings safety net is. If your … Read more
Robert De Niro said that while he was relieved Joe Biden won last Tuesday’s election, he warns that another ‘wannabe dictator’ like President Trump will come along by using ‘the same playbook as Mussolini and Hitler.’ ‘There’ll be other people like [Trump] in the future, maybe not in my lifetime,’ the 77-year-old Goodfellas actor, who … Read more
Land animals are, on the whole, smarter than marine creatures and scientists now believe this is because complex landscapes sped up the evolution of intelligence. Animals first left the seas and colonised land around 385million years ago but their brains were far more primitive than modern-day species. This, scientists say, is because the simplicity of … Read more
Battle of the bird brains! Wild cockatoos perform just as well as those raised by humans in intelligence tests, new study shows Researchers in Vienna tested the intelligence of Goffin’s cockatoos They compared a group of lab-raised birds with a group of wild birds They found both groups performed similarly in intelligence tests The main … Read more