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How �鶹��ý readers predicted the Oscar winners

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How �鶹��ý readers predicted the Oscar winners

We ran a simple experiment to test if the wisdom of the crowd could predict the future. It looks to have been a success

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Neanderthals made the oldest cave art in the world

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Neanderthals made the oldest cave art in the world

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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

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crowd of people

Life

Work the crowd: How ordinary people can predict the future

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artwork

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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

Health

CRISPR has fixed the genetic cause of a learning disability

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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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Trump supporters

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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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Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

News

Humans

What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

News

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How to be Human: The reason we are so scarily hairy

Features

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Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

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