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Parasitic ants keep evolving to lose their smell and taste genes

Life

Parasitic ants keep evolving to lose their smell and taste genes

When parasitic ants move into another species’ colony, they outsource foraging to the host ants – which may be why several species of parasitic ants have lost the genes for taste and smell

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blue tit

Environment

Scottish blue tits mostly survive on food from garden bird feeders

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Toxic beetle’s genetics reveals how evolution makes new organs

Life

Toxic beetle’s genetics reveals how evolution makes new organs

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Common swifts can fly more than 800 kilometres a day during migration

Life

Common swifts can fly more than 800 kilometres a day during migration

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Technology

An AI has disproved five mathematical conjectures with no human help

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Artificial intelligence has been of little use for diagnosing covid-19

Technology

Artificial intelligence has been of little use for diagnosing covid-19

Comment

AI can count a meal’s calories based on images from a wearable camera

Technology

AI can count a meal’s calories based on images from a wearable camera

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Life

Female mice that lose a male partner are wary of taking a new one

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Hermit crabs choose by colour when selecting a new shell for a home

Life

Hermit crabs choose by colour when selecting a new shell for a home

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Technology

AI that mimics human typos on a smartphone could improve keyboards

An artificial intelligence that mimics how people type on a smartphone – including making errors – could help improve the standard of on-screen keyboards in the future

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Life

Rare video of giant squid reveals it stalks jellyfish in deep water

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Definition

Echidnas

Humans

How to boost your self-awareness and make better decisions

Features

Life

Bats don’t have to learn the speed of sound – they’re born knowing it

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