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Traditional cooperative fishing between Lahille's bottlenose dolphins and artisanal net-casting fishers in Laguna, Brazil. CREDIT Photo by Mauricio Cantor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Sciences, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University.

Life

Dolphins that help humans catch fish are more likely to survive

A 12-year study of an unusual fishing partnership in southern Brazil has calculated the benefits to both humans and bottlenose dolphins

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Banded mongoose group approaching with curiosity (Mungos mungo). Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. March 2018.

Life

Inside the complex and extremely violent world of warring mongooses

Features

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Life

Dogs can tell when you want to give them a treat – even if you don’t

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A laptop sits on a desk, opened to the homepage for the search engine Google. A person's hands enter from the left, with one hand's fingers placed on the laptop's keyboard.

Technology

Google's AI is best yet at answering medical and health questions

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A brown ghost knifefish

Life

Ghost knifefish make electric 'chirps' to spot where other fish are

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Researchers have suggested that monitoring audio clips on social media could be a relatively quick, inexpensive way of tracking coronavirus cases in the community

Health

AI detects if YouTubers are infected with omicron coronavirus variant

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A woman sitting at her desk

Technology

Smart office chair recognises what position you are sitting in

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ChatGPT chatbot on phone screen

Technology

Huge AI models can be halved in size without degrading performance

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Two people, little girl playing with toy blocks, her mother is sitting next to her at home.

Mind

Children aged 5 are better at switching their attention than chimps

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Slight overheating chicken eggs during their incubation makes male chicks more sociable

Life

Male chicks are more sociable if they were grown in warmer eggs

Increasing the temperature of egg incubators by 1°C or 2°C has shown promise to help chickens cope with rising global temperatures. Now, research suggests it also makes male chicks more sociable and potentially less aggressive as adults

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Technology

ChatGPT detector could help spot cheaters using AI to write essays

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Technology

Should schools ban ChatGPT or embrace the technology instead?

Analysis

Humans

Why it is important to explore the outer limits of knowledge

Leader

Life

Why we shouldn't attribute human motivations to animals like bees

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