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animal intelligence

blue tit

Environment

Scottish blue tits mostly survive on food from garden bird feeders

Garden bird feed is the single most common food source found in a sample of blue tit faeces collected across Scotland

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Toxic beetle’s genetics reveals how evolution makes new organs

Life

Toxic beetle’s genetics reveals how evolution makes new organs

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Common swifts can fly more than 800 kilometres a day during migration

Life

Common swifts can fly more than 800 kilometres a day during migration

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Technology

An AI has disproved five mathematical conjectures with no human help

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Artificial intelligence has been of little use for diagnosing covid-19

Technology

Artificial intelligence has been of little use for diagnosing covid-19

Comment

AI can count a meal’s calories based on images from a wearable camera

Technology

AI can count a meal’s calories based on images from a wearable camera

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mouse

Life

Female mice that lose a male partner are wary of taking a new one

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Hermit crabs choose by colour when selecting a new shell for a home

Life

Hermit crabs choose by colour when selecting a new shell for a home

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Smartphone

Technology

AI that mimics human typos on a smartphone could improve keyboards

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Rare video of giant squid reveals it stalks jellyfish in deep water

Life

Rare video of giant squid reveals it stalks jellyfish in deep water

The giant squid is famously elusive, but researchers have captured the first known footage of it hunting by using a decoy jellyfish attached to a camera

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Definition

Echidnas

Humans

How to boost your self-awareness and make better decisions

Features

Life

Bats don’t have to learn the speed of sound – they’re born knowing it

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Life

Mice on opposite North American coasts evolved the same way

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