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Technology
AI tweaks to photos and videos can alter our memories
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Life
Octopuses and fish hunt as a team to catch more prey
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Environment
Forests became less diverse when ancient people started herding pigs
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Space
Planet in the 'forbidden zone' of dead star could reveal Earth's fate
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Humans
AI discovers hundreds of ancient Nazca drawings in Peruvian desert
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Life
Axolotls seem to pause their biological clocks and stop ageing
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Space
Search for alien transmissions in promising star system draws a blank
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Technology
Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
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Environment
Jet contrails may cool the planet by day and warm it by night
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Health
Pain relief from the placebo effect may not actually involve dopamine
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Chemistry
Chemists discovered the first new chemical bond in more than a decade
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Technology
What voice assistants like Alexa know about you – and how they use it
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Technology
AIs get worse at answering simple questions as they get bigger
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Environment
Camellia oil could be the greenest cooking oil – and the healthiest
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Humans
World's oldest cheese found on 3500-year-old Chinese mummies
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Environment
Jet stream shifts are linked to fires, failed harvests and the plague
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Health
How much should we worry about the health effects of microplastics?
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Society
We now know who was cannibalised on the doomed Franklin expedition
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Health
Map of the immune system changing with age may help optimise vaccines
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Earth
How 'river piracy' made Mount Everest grow even taller
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Health
Radioactive ion beam could target tumours more precisely
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Analysis
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Society
Why we need to fight back against sexy Asian lady robots
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Mind
I am in a rut. Is there a way to regain my zest for life?
Regulars
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BrainTwister #40: There are four lights
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Technology
It's parents who are anxious about smartphones, not their children
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Tom Gauld: Remember this day when my genius blazes across the world
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