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animal intelligence

A white rodent eating a chocolate snack

Life

Smart lab rats filmed using hooked tools to get chocolate cereal

Lock up your cereal. Rats can learn to use tools, such as hooked rakes, to reach food, and they can even choose the right tool for the job

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Bryan Johnson presenting some of his ideas

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$100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant

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

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

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IBM's Watson

Technology

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

News

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

News

Woman looking at a tube map

Technology

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

News

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

News

Auto ‘finprinting’ identifies individual sharks as they migrate

Life

Auto ‘finprinting’ identifies individual sharks as they migrate

An AI system that uses the unique contours of a shark’s dorsal fin as a biometric could help keep tabs on them as they move around the world

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Life

Don’t worry, bee happy: Bees found to have emotions and moods

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Life

Hawaiian crows can use sticks as tools but are nearly extinct

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Humans

Utopia is unobtainable, but worth pursuing for all our sakes

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

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