For decades, we've heard anecdotal evidence of the unnerving intelligence of birds in the corvid family: crows, ravens, jackdaws, and so on. If a raven notices another raven watching it hide its food, the raven will pretend to hide the food elsewhere. Wild jackdaws can recognize individual human faces. Author Jean Craighead George once had a family pet crow that figured out how to take a ride down the backyard slide by using a coffee can lid as a sled. Now, new research sugge

When you're learning new information and you want to remember it, you might be tempted to reach for your keyboard or your phone. However, research suggests both children and adults learn better and retain noticeably more when we write by hand. Professor Audrey Van der Meer and her colleagues at NTNU have performed several studies investigating this phenomenon, starting in 2017 when she examined the brain activity of 20 students and continuing now in 2020 when she looked at th