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This is how jellyfish can sting you without even touching you

Life

This is how jellyfish can sting you without even touching you

Upside-down jellyfish release tiny balls of stinging cells that can move through water on their own and survive for days – leaving a network of mucus that can sting you

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orchard spider

Life

Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence

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AI

Health

AI is being used to select embryos for women undergoing IVF

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Posters in India

Technology

Deepfake software translates videos from one language to another

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Mind

DeepMind found an AI learning technique also works in human brains

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African grey parrot

Life

African grey parrots are smart enough to help a bird in need

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Cuttlefish wearing 3D glasses prove they sense depth just like us

Life

Cuttlefish wearing 3D glasses prove they sense depth just like us

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MRI shows brain tumor at right parietal lobe of cerebrum

Health

AI matches humans at diagnosing brain cancer from tumour biopsy images

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Clive Wynne

Life

For the love of dog: How our canine companions evolved for affection

Features

Equations

Mathematics

Facebook's AI mathematician can solve university calculus problems

An artificial intelligence built by Facebook has learned to solve university-level calculus problems in seconds

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Humans

Quiz of the year: Test your knowledge of 2019's science stories

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Space

51¶¯Âþ ranks the top 10 discoveries of the decade

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Life

Octopuses were thought to be solitary until a social species turned up

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Technology

Why algorithms love giraffes and create hilarious recipes

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