Horses can read human facial expressions, according to new research.
It is vengeance, not hope, that springs eternal in the Balkan -- read human -- breast.
Nick read human geography at Reading University, before joining the accountants KPMG.
Meanwhile, the Japanese firm Softbank unveiled a "human-like" robot called Pepper, which it says can read human emotions.
The study shows that dogs can read human behavior, he said, and understand when they are being addressed.
They are astonishingly attentive to everything we do, they can probably "read" human body language better than we can, and they are incredibly fast and flexible learners.
In case you missed it, that's code for she'll put women's rights (read: human rights) at the center her presidency.
There is another story, though, about Charles's inability to read human desire and affection - to be part of an interactive human society - that runs along as a parallel narrative.
The birth of gene patenting rapidly followed our ability to read human genes in the 1990s, and in general patents cover the processes of extracting, reading and diagnostic tests for specific bits of an individual's DNA.
The other night I saw a television program about Asperger's syndrome, a disorder characterized by, among other things, the inability to read human emotions and a compensatory passion for objects and rituals.
The qualities that have enticed thousands of people into parting with 198,000 yen (£1,080) for their own Pepper companion since it went on sale in June include the ability to read human emotions, hold conversations and move autonomously.
