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How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

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How losing a bone in our noses gave us the ability to enjoy flavour

Humans need all the help they can get from their senses to stop them making mistakes with their varied diet. Let's hear it for aroma and flavour that helped make them what they are, say Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez in their fascinating book Delicious

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People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals

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Tiny swimming robots reach their target faster thanks to AI nudges

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Kate Crawford interview: How AI is exploiting people and the planet

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Kate Crawford interview: How AI is exploiting people and the planet

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Your leg muscles automatically act to stop you falling when you trip

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Your leg muscles automatically act to stop you falling when you trip

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UK still using racially biased passport tool despite available update

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AI has a specific Spider-Man 'brain cell' just like humans do

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AI has a specific Spider-Man 'brain cell' just like humans do

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Facebook AI learned object recognition from 1 billion Instagram pics

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Earliest human ancestors may have swung on branches like chimps

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Why insulting people's intelligence is incompatible with open debate

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Why insulting people's intelligence is incompatible with open debate

We too often turn to insulting people’s brain power – and that closes off our ability to understand others, argues Melanie Challenger

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The rise and fall of the mysterious culture that invented civilisation

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First universal coronavirus vaccine will start human trials this year

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Insect brains will teach us how to make truly intelligent robots

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AI can use the veins on your hand like fingerprints to identify you

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