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Screenshot from the Atari game Montezuma’s Revenge

Technology

AI learns to play video game from instructions in plain English

Taking advice from humans helped an AI beat tough Atari game Montezuma’s Revenge. The approach shows how anyone could help teach AI new real-world skills

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Humans

Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life

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Humans

Your true self: The future is a foreign person

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Humans

Your true self: Why it’s morals that make the human

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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

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Life

Inside knowledge: Why we like to know useless stuff

Reading this won't get you food or sex (if it does, it will do so only indirectly) – so why do our brains light up as if fun facts are essential to survival?

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Life

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

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Life

Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

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Technology

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

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

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