Study: Dogs trust us less when we’re angry
How quickly your dog responds to you has a lot to do with the look on your face and the tone of your voice, according to a study at Brigham Young University. Your dog may not respond more quickly if...
View ArticleIt’s what you say AND how you say it
Traditional wisdom holds that it’s not so much what you say to your dog as how you say it that counts — that tone, in other words, is everything. But scientists in Hungary say dogs may understand more...
View ArticleDogs are better at filtering out useless info
While both human children and dogs learn from copying adult humans, dogs are better at spotting the bullshit. So says (though not in those words) a new study from Yale University’s Canine Cognition...
View ArticleThe nose knows but the ears tell
Many of us may be most familiar with infrared thermography from its least valuable (I’d argue) use — ghost hunting. It serves many far more sophisticated purposes, though, than providing fodder for...
View ArticleYour attention, please …
Look at you! Look at you! You are the cutest little reader I’ve ever seen. Yes you are. Yes you are! You’re just the sweetest reader ever. What a good reader! And, yes, you’re a genius, too. So very...
View ArticleScientists learn about aging and memory by monitoring brain activity of...
Researchers in Hungary have found another good reason to let sleeping dogs lie — and maybe for us humans to get more sleep, too. Both dogs and humans, they say, learn while they sleep. The scientists...
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