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8th Jun 2009

Chuckling Chimps and Shining Squid


Ben Valsler
Naru being tickled

In this week's NewsFlash, we find out why giggling gorillas can tell us how laughter evolved, how shining squid use their entire bodies to see light and how birds learn from their neighbours, but only when the lessons are right.  Plus, we speak to the winner of this year's Gruber Prize for cosmology, and Sarah Castor-Perry takes us back to This Week in Science History...
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(c) Marina Davila-Ross

Giggling Gorillas and Chuckling Chimps

Laughter is a wonderful thing to hear – but would you recognise it coming from anything other than a human?In a delightful study published in this week’s Current Biology, Marina Davila-Ross and colleagues at the University of Plymouth have found that what we think of as laughter today could have evo...
(c) Justin Welbergen

Warblers Learn who to Trust

Back in February, I reported on a paper in the journal Current Biology about how Reed Warblers protect themselves from being parasitized by cuckoos. Now in a follow up paper published in this week’s Science, Nick Davies and Justin Welbergen from Cambridge University have found out how the birds lea...
(c) Hans Hillewaert

Squid don’t just see with their eyes

Squid, those slippery denizens of the deep, may not only see through their enormous round eyes but it seems they can also detect light all along their bodies as well. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been studying the Hawaiian bobtail squid. These 3cm long squid have ink sa...

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(c) Giovanni Tinetti

The Gruber Prize for Cosmology

We speak to Professor Robert Kennicutt: one of the first to describe the Hubble constant and now recipient of the Gruber Prize for Cosmology.
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This Week in Science History - The Birth of Ultrasound

This Week in Science History saw, in 1958, the publication of a significant paper that began the use of ultrasound as a diagnostic tool in medicine. Sarah Castor-Perry takes us back...
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