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Human noise pollution drives monkeys to rely on communication by scent

Tamarins living near cities in the Amazon Rainforest use odour to communicate nearly twice as often as usual when noise pollution spikes from nearby freeways or town centres

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Western Toads mating

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Frogs have been trying to mate with odd things for 220 million years

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Male cockatoos make customised drumsticks for their mating displays

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Disinformation wars: The fight against fake news in the age of AI

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Disinformation wars: The fight against fake news in the age of AI

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GPT-4 wins chatbot lawyer contest – but is still not as good as humans

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Spotted salamander eggs hatch more easily if nibbled by predators

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Pirate spiders ambush prey by tricking them with lines of silk

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Animal motion-capture studio tracks bird flocks and insect swarms

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AI generates video game levels and characters from text prompts

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The best new science fiction books of September 2023

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The best new science fiction books of September 2023

We have a bumper crop of new sci-fi books for you this September, including talking spy cats from John Scalzi, an amazing discovery in space from Stephen Baxter and a near-future novel by Sebastian Faulks, says culture editor Alison Flood

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AI beats champion human pilots in head-to-head drone races

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AI shows no sign of consciousness yet, but we know what to look for

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What is an 'AI prompt engineer' and does every company need one?

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