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Homo sapiens: Why did evolution favour the brainy ape?

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Homo sapiens: Why did evolution favour the brainy ape?

Being intelligent has allowed our species to conquer the world. Mark Maslin explains why evolution favoured an unusually brainy ape.

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AI can search satellite data to find plastic floating in the sea

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AI can search satellite data to find plastic floating in the sea

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Seagulls aren't menaces – they are fascinating and complex creatures

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Seagulls aren't menaces – they are fascinating and complex creatures

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AI lets you be Albert Einstein or the Mona Lisa on all your Zoom calls

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AI lets you be Albert Einstein or the Mona Lisa on all your Zoom calls

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a woman, probably in bed, kind of fuzzy picture, with her phone in front of her, obscuring her face from our view. she's alone.

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AI can distinguish between bots and humans based on Twitter activity

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AI taught to instantly transform objects in image-editing software

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Male lemurs may use their fruity-smelling wrists to attract mates

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Male lemurs may use their fruity-smelling wrists to attract mates

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Bats

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Bats can learn to copy sounds and it may teach us about human speech

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Glass nearly melting

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Deepmind AI can understand the unusual atomic structure of glass

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Providence review: Chilling sci-fi where an AI becomes god by accident

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Providence review: Chilling sci-fi where an AI becomes god by accident

Is our love affair with AI really about building a new kind of deity to meet human needs no amount of rationality can fill? Max Barry's disturbing novel Providence lays out the case, says Sally Adee

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Male bottlenose dolphins synchronise their calls to attract females

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How DeepMind's artificial intelligence is reinventing the eye exam

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Neanderthals feasted on seafood and nuts according to fossil remains

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Penguins call out as they hunt under water but we’re not sure why

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