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Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out

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Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out

Intelligence agencies have found that crowds of everyday people can forecast events with surprising accuracy. Now we’re running our own experiment

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Work the crowd: How ordinary people can predict the future

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The tamed ape: were humans the first animal to be domesticated?

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An X chromosome from someone with fragile X syndrome

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CRISPR has fixed the genetic cause of a learning disability

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We can now read the whole genome of a fetus in the womb

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We can now read the whole genome of a fetus in the womb

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Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

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Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire

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Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago

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Someone made advanced stone tools in India 172,000 years ago

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Technician injects fluid into MinION DNA sequencer

Technology

Pocket-sized scanner helps fill gaps in the human genome

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Effortless thinking: Why we're all born to be status quo fans

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Robot's terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence

Technology

Robot's terrible jokes are a new test of machine intelligence

An AI trained to improvise jokes around topics suggested by an audience is testing the ways we perceive and interact with intelligent machines  

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Biohackers are using CRISPR on their DNA and we can't stop it

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Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

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We’ve evolved an even more powerful form of CRISPR gene editing

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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