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Is there an evolutionary benefit to being bald?

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Is there an evolutionary benefit to being bald?

Does male pattern baldness convey an evolutionary advantage? Readers share their theories

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Praying Mantis

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An AI trained to spot hidden objects can see through camouflage

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Robot with pincers can detect and remove weeds without harming crops

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Robot with pincers can detect and remove weeds without harming crops

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Could we ever build a robot that thinks like a person?

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Could we ever build a robot that thinks like a person?

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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?

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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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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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editing software

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AI taught to instantly transform objects in image-editing software

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Bats

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

Pale spear-nosed bats can learn to alter their calls to mimic different sounds – a rare skill that could help us understand the biology of human speech and language

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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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Humans

We may now know what our common ancestor with Neanderthals looked like

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Humans

Human evolution: The astounding new story of the origin of our species

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