Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, ...

“We trained two carrion crows to detect a distinct display among two-dimensional visual shapes,” explain Nieder and his colleagues in their new paper on corvids’ math ability. “The crows ...

mathematics — are uniquely human. Time and time again, we’ve seen these boundaries fall. This doesn’t mean crows are doing geometry homework in their nests. But they have the raw perceptual ...

April 16, 2025 • What does the clash between Harvard and the Trump administration look like from the perspective of its faculty? NPR's Michel Martin asks Harvard Law School professor Nikolas Bowie.