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Chimps, bonobos and orangutans grasp how others view the world

Life

Chimps, bonobos and orangutans grasp how others view the world

Apes’ ability to anticipate how a misinformed person will behave suggests they can see the world from the perspective of others – though maybe not consciously

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Technology

Basic common sense is key to building more intelligent machines

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Auto ‘finprinting’ identifies individual sharks as they migrate

Life

Auto ‘finprinting’ identifies individual sharks as they migrate

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Don’t worry, bee happy: Bees found to have emotions and moods

Life

Don’t worry, bee happy: Bees found to have emotions and moods

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A Hawaiian crow using a stick as a tool

Life

Hawaiian crows can use sticks as tools but are nearly extinct

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Utopia elements

Humans

Utopia is unobtainable, but worth pursuing for all our sakes

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Technology

Computers that can argue will be satnav for the moral maze

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Health

Primate labs give us an edge, says China's brain project chief

Features

ant bridge

Life

Get inside the collective mind of a genius superorganism

Features

A promotional image for the video game with the title on a background showing one of the many possible worlds the game creates

Technology

When infinity gets boring: What went wrong with No Man’s Sky

It promised the world. In fact, it promised the universe, but just hours after the year’s most hyped game was released, players complained they were bored. Why?

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Technology

The threat of robot guards is not enough to stop people stealing

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Technology

Smart medicine is coming of age, but will doctors bite?

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Life

Endangered dolphin with broken blowhole learns to mouth-breathe

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Technology

Move over silicon: Machine learning boom means we need new chips

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