Science reports the Roman Coronagraph technology demonstrator is a pathfinder for a future coronagraph with full science capability, now embodied in the Habitable Worlds Observatory. This provides an extraordinary opportunity to learn lessons that will optimize HWO’s scientific goals, design, and operations. Before launch, the original Formulation Science Working

Nytimes reports that scientists have conducted the first study indicating that apes can play pretend, suggesting imagination is within apes’ cognitive potential and may be traceable to our common evolutionary ancestors. Researchers led by Christopher Krupenye and Amalia Bastos tested Kanzi, a male bonobo at the Ape Initiative, in three