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Life

Learning styles in fruit flies may not be related to nature or nurture

Fruit flies that are nearly genetically identical raised in the same environment still learn at different rates, suggesting that random differences in brain development may have evolved to produce variation in a species

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Covid-19 news archive: January 2022

Health

Covid-19 news archive: January 2022

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percussion notches on large bovid humerus

Humans

Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years ago

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Beth Singler

Video

Beth Singler: Don't fear AI itself, but corporations using algorithms

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Beth Singler

Technology

Beth Singler interview: The dangers of treating AI like a god

Features

The Woebot Labs Inc. application is demonstrated for a photograph in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Friday, July 7, 2017. Woebot Labs develops health care software which offers a platform that makes therapy accessible and stigma-free for patient suffering from anxiety, depression, and mental health issues. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Health

I bonded with a quirky robot after chatting to it about my fears

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Covid-19 news archive: November to December 2021

Health

Covid-19 news archive: November to December 2021

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Eurasian Jay in the wild

Mind

Meet the scientists who perform magic tricks on birds

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Steven Pinker interview: Why humans aren't as irrational as they seem

Humans

Steven Pinker interview: Why humans aren't as irrational as they seem

Features

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Uncredited/AP/Shutterstock (10421309a) This Jan. 12, 2019, photo captured by a Mobile Phone Detection Camera and released by Transport for NSW shows a driver using a mobile phone while driving in Australia. Australian state New South Wales is attempting to persuade the public to put down their smartphones while driving by rolling out cameras to prosecute distracted motorists. New South Wales Roads Minister Andrew Constance said, Australia's most populous state was the first jurisdiction in the world to use such technology to punish drivers distracted by social media, text messages or phone calls. The government intends to roll out 45 Mobile Phone Detection Cameras across the state by December, he said Australia Distracted Drivers - 23 Sep 2019

Technology

Australia’s AI cameras catch over 270,000 drivers using their phones

The proportion of drivers in New South Wales illegally using their mobile phones has dropped fivefold since AI cameras began catching offenders

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Technology

AI reads boring terms and conditions documents so you don't have to

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Health

Night-shift workers who eat only in the day may cut diabetes risk

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Humans

Humans have been relatively short for thousands of years

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Definition

Algorithms

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