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Humans

Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life

You are not the person you were as a child, or even last year. The discovery that our characters change is unnerving, but embrace it and it can be empowering

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Octopuses seem to have special gene editing powers

Life

Squid and octopus can edit and direct their own brain genes

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Orangutan watches man place something in a yellow box

Life

Apes can see things from your perspective and help you out

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Google self-driving car pauses as people cross road in front of it

Technology

Synthetic humans help computers understand how real people act

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Technology

MRI brain scans train machines to see the world more like us

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Life

Inside knowledge: What's really going on in the minds of animals

Features

seeking

Life

Inside knowledge: Why we like to know useless stuff

Features

Dog

Life

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

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Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

Life

Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

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Technology

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

An app that uses deep learning could help people with Parkinson's track its progression and uncover lifestyle factors that affect their symptoms

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Health

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

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Technology

AI beats professional players at Super Smash Bros. video game

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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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