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Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean

Life

Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean

If a Matabele ant loses a limb in a battle with termites, its nestmates will tend its injuries - a behaviour never before seen in any non-human animal

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Birds 'dream sing' by moving their vocal muscles in their sleep

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Birds 'dream sing' by moving their vocal muscles in their sleep

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Technology

App guesses your emotions to target you with adverts

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Police stop a driver whilst wearing smart glasses

Technology

Chinese police use face recognition glasses to catch criminals

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Coloured spheres

Technology

DeepMind’s virtual psychology lab seeks flaws in digital minds

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Art history AI sees links between hundreds of years of paintings

Technology

Art history AI sees links between hundreds of years of paintings

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Facebook is making a chatbot that can fill awkward silences

Technology

Facebook is making a chatbot that can fill awkward silences

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Balloon inflating game

Technology

Your next job interview could be playing a weird smartphone game

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Smart glasses

Technology

How do you stop your smart glasses filming in the toilet?

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Technology

AI that cracked ancient secret code could help robot translation

Breaking ciphers is like learning to translate a language, so a technique that unscrambled one of the earliest known examples could assist machine translation

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Technology

Algorithms that change lives should be trialled like new drugs

Analysis

Technology

Chit-chat makes humans and robots work together better

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Technology

AI listens in on emergency calls to diagnose cardiac arrest

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Life

How besieged ants decide when it’s time to abandon their nests

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