THINGS WE LEARNT THIS MONTH

HORSES CAN READ AND REMEMBER HUMAN EMOTIONS

Why the long face? Horses respond more positively to people that they have previously seen smiling, and more cautiously to those they have previously seen scowling, psychologists at the Universities of Sussex and Portsmouth have found.

CHILDREN ARE FITTER THAN TOP ENDURANCE ATHLETES

A study at France’s Université Clermont Auvergne, has found that children aged between 8 and 12 years old recover from aerobic exercise more quickly and efficiently than highly trained adult endurance athletes.

MEMBERS OF AN AMAZONIAN TRIBE COMMUNICATE BY DRUMMING

The Bora, indigenous people living in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon, use manguare drums to communicate with other members of the tribe up to 20km away, a team at the Max Planck Institute has found.