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animal intelligence

The Mitchells vs The Machines review: Great sci-fi animation comedy

Technology

The Mitchells vs The Machines review: Great sci-fi animation comedy

Netflix's The Mitchells vs The Machines is laugh-out-loud funny animation as a hapless family end up as humanity's only hope against the machine

Culture

White noise could warn birds to avoid colliding with tall structures

Life

White noise could warn birds to avoid colliding with tall structures

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Suzanne Simard interview: How I uncovered the hidden language of trees

Life

Suzanne Simard interview: How I uncovered the hidden language of trees

Features

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Life

Honeybees stress each other out by warning about minor parasites

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Male parasitic wasps can detect females inside an infected host fly

Life

Male parasitic wasps can detect females inside an infected host fly

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Why do dogs lick you?

Question

Why do dogs lick you?

AI face analysis can tell if cows and pigs are excited or stressed

Environment

AI face analysis can tell if cows and pigs are excited or stressed

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Why do we yawn?

Question

Why do we yawn?

Great Isaiah Scroll

Technology

AI analysis shows two scribes wrote one of the Dead Sea Scrolls

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photographs of faces

Technology

Algorithms can sway people when making online dating decisions

Recommendation algorithms seem to have the power to influence people, suggest experiments in which people used them to choose partners to date or fictional politicians to vote for

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Technology

Colour-changing beetle inspires algorithm for efficient engineering

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Question

Why do dogs eat grass?

Technology

Can the European Union prevent an artificial intelligence dystopia?

Analysis

Life

The frequencies of a vibrating spider web have been made into music

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