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Inside knowledge: Why we like to know useless stuff

Reading this won't get you food or sex (if it does, it will do so only indirectly) – so why do our brains light up as if fun facts are essential to survival?

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Life

Dogs use deception to get what they want from humans (a sausage)

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Neanderthals sat round a campfire with bits of meat hanging up in the foreground

Humans

Neanderthals may have medicated with penicillin and painkillers

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Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

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Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

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Technology

Super-fast Parkinson's app will track symptoms more closely

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action during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Group C match between England and Algeria

Health

Try these simple mental tests to see if you're a good athlete

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A Super Smash Bros. tournament

Technology

AI beats professional players at Super Smash Bros. video game

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Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are

Life

Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are

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Technology

AI learns to write its own code by stealing from other programs

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A child sits opposite a fluffy blue robot companion on a desk

Technology

Kids can pick up attitude from robots they play and learn with

Children using a companion robot to help solve puzzles or listen to them tell stories tried harder when it was programmed to have a can-do attitude

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Technology

Microsoft app helps people with ALS speak using just their eyes

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Technology

AI learns to solve quantum state of many particles at once

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Life

Synchronised swimming seems to make dolphins more optimistic

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Technology

Why your brain is like a conscious termite colony

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