Rhesus Monkey can recognize their face after Training-discovery to sheds light on the neural basis of self-awareness in humans and other animals.
Unlike humans and great apes, rhesus monkeys don't realize when they look in a mirror that it is their own face looking back at them. But, according to a report in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on January 8, that doesn't mean they can't learn. What's more, once rhesus monkeys in the study developed mirror self-recognition, they continued to use mirrors spontaneously to explore parts of their bodies they normally don't see. The discovery in monkeys sheds light on the neural basis of self-awareness in humans and other animals.
Journal Reference: Liangtang Chang, Gin Fang, Shikun Zhang, Mu-Ming Poo, Neng Gong. Mirror-Induced Self-Directed
Behaviors in Rhesus Monkeys after Visual-Somatosensory Training. Current Biology, January 2015 DOI link
Dance of Electron
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg has now become the first to image the motion of the two electrons in a helium atom and even to control this electronic partner dance.
Link: Ott et al , Nature, 2014; 516 (7531): 374: DOI: 10.1038/nature14026
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