Monkey justice
Don’t try to cheat a monkey. Capuchins have a strong sense of justice and will throw a tantrum if given a raw deal. The discovery confirmed the idea that cooperative behaviour, which relies on participants having a sense of fair play, appeared early in our evolutionary past.
Gas comes to life
It was life Jim, but not as we know it. Physicists created blobs of gaseous plasma that grow, replicate and communicate – fulfilling many of the traditional requirements for biological cells. The blobs formed in microseconds, challenging the idea that living cells took millions of years to evolve.…
