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Two new books about sharks reveal how and why we should conserve them

Paul de Gelder's Shark and David Shiffman's Why Sharks Matter aim to turn the all-too-common public panic about the predator into interest in their conservation

Culture

An artificial intelligence could gauge how much pain a laboratory mouse is in based on its grimaces, potentially aiding the development of pain-relieving drugs

Health

AI that can see pain in a mouse's face could aid drug development

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An image of the digita humanoid soccer players

Technology

DeepMind AI learns to play soccer using decades of match simulations

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When Animals Dream review: Making the case for 'animalhood'

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When Animals Dream review: Making the case for 'animalhood'

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Technology

Your smartphone could recognise you just by the way you hold it

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An artificial intelligence that analyses the microbiome and then recommends personalised diets may relieve chronic constipation more effectively that the standard treatment

Health

AI that recommends diets based on the microbiome relieves constipation

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Jumping spider close up eyes

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Are these spiders dreaming? REM-like sleep exhibited in arachnids

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A pobblebonk frog (Limnodynastes terraereginae) in south-east Queensland, Australia

Life

Pobblebonk frogs have a weird trick for surviving very acidic pools

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A white-tailed deer munches on a sea turtle bone

Life

Deer in Costa Rica gnaw on sea turtle bones

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Swatted dead mosquito

Technology

AI learns how to recognise the species of splatted mosquitoes

Researchers have gathered 1500 images of mosquitoes – both squished and not – for training AI. Their goal is to build a smartphone app that can track disease-causing species

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Life

Cambridge lab for clever birds saved from closure by public donations

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Humans

Mistakenly calling AIs 'sentient' is more dangerous than we think

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Wasps can grasp abstract concepts such as 'same' and 'different'

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Technology

A four-legged robot can learn to walk in an hour like a newborn foal

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