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animal intelligence

Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

Life

Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

The FOXP2 gene probably helped us evolve speech when we split from chimpanzees. But tinkering with the gene in mice affects their communication too

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IBM's Watson

Technology

Dr House goes digital as IBM's Watson diagnoses rare diseases

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Outside view of one of the purple and white driverless pods in Milton Keynes

Technology

First UK trial of driverless pods paves way for autonomous taxis

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Woman looking at a tube map

Technology

DeepMind's AI has learned to navigate the Tube using memory

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A scene from the TV show Westworld with an android being manufactured

Technology

Why shows like Westworld only show dark side of our robot future

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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

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robot workers

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

Like their cousins the New Caledonian crows, island-welling Hawaiian crows seem naturally disposed to using tools for getting food

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Humans

Utopia is unobtainable, but worth pursuing for all our sakes

Leader

Technology

Computers that can argue will be satnav for the moral maze

Features

Life

Get inside the collective mind of a genius superorganism

Features

Health

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

Features

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