The US air force is seeking to develop a cluster weapon that releases a swarm of bomblets that could each pursue and destroy targets many kilometres away. The US Department of Defense revealed its requirements for the weapon in an online research request. The request says the bomblets should be equipped with sensors capable of locking on to targets up to 5 kilometres away, and should have enough onboard power to chase a moving target for up to 5 minutes.
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Can you tell your friends apart just by sneaking a peek at their backsides? Perhaps not, but chimps on the other hand easily match the faces of chimps they know with photos of their rear ends. Such talent suggests chimps carry around “whole body” mental representations of each other that permit them to assign different body parts to the same individual.
Listen/Download Bianca Nogrady on freaky cluster bombs and chimp bottoms
