It might not seem like a big deal, but the ability to recognize that the face in the mirror is your own makes us part of a pretty exclusive club in the animal kingdom. Humans obviously can do it (from ...

Source: Bert de Tilly, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Since the 1970s, scientists have employed the mirror test as an assay of self-awareness. If an animal or child ...

A 47-year-old Asian elephant, somewhat ironically named Happy, has been caged alone for more than a decade at the Bronx Zoo. Happy is the first elephant ever to demonstrate a sophisticated degree of ...

The following is an excerpt from Derrick Jensen’s new book, The Myth of Human Supremacy, published by Seven Stories Press. Many human supremacists love to talk about the “mirror test” of ...

Hannah Osborne is Nesweek's Science Editor, based in London, UK. Hannah joined Newsweek in 2017 from IBTimes UK. She is a graduate of Goldsmiths University and King's College London. Languages; ...

A little blue-and-black fish swims up to a mirror. It maneuvers its body vertically to reflect its belly, along with a brown mark that researchers have placed on its throat. The fish then pivots and ...

It’s nothing to get too excited or alarmed about, but a robot has passed a modified version of the classic King’s Wise Men Test. It’s another classic case of simulation rather than emulation, but the ...

Slowing down, disengaging from screens and taking a pause helps your decision-making and understanding in an often hectic ...