Life
Smart but dumb: probing the mysteries of brainless intelligence
Understanding how things like slime moulds and plants can learn without a brain or even any neurons could help us fight diseases and make smarter machines
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Environment
Swinging birds play with rhythm like jazz musicians
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Ants build living towers that flow like a fountain in reverse
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Humans
Even toddlers expect bullies to get more than their fair share
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The ethics issue: Should we let synthetic life forms loose?
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Health
Old brains can’t hear similar sounds but a drug can change that
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The way we run protects our upper bodies but our legs suffer
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Why your real age may be older – or younger – than your years
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Humans
Chimps are not as superhumanly strong as we thought they were
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Life
Peruvian monkey avoids stomach trouble by adding mud to its diet
Rylands’ saki seems to go out of its way to eat the muddy walls of treetop termite mounds – perhaps to prevent toxic side effects from its seed-rich diet
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Synthetic iris could let cameras react to light like our eyes do
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Earth
Italy’s drying lakes imperil rare shrimp species found only here
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Radio powered by your own sweat hints at future of wearablesÂ
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LA’s endangered pumas to be saved by a $60m bridge over highway
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