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AI lie detection at border control should proceed with caution
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Don't teach kids – I've shown their hive mind can learn on its own
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Earth
Why Earth's water could be older than Earth itself
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Mind
The truth behind ASMR and the craze for videos causing 'head orgasms'
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Physics
Exclusive: Grave doubts over LIGO's discovery of gravitational waves
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Health
New clues to unravelling link between pregnancy and breast cancer risk
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Health
Bone hormone released during exercise may lead to new memory-loss drug
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Life
Bird-like lungs may have helped dinosaurs rule the world
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Health
Skin tans the most when spending every other day out of the sun
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Health
Data suggests 60 per cent of babies aren't breastfed after 6 weeks
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Environment
Humpback whales stop singing when cargo ships make a lot of noise
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Life
Dinosaur fossil may be a whole new species of the first birds
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Technology
Zapping liquid metal makes it move in a way that can power wheels
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Technology
NATO's huge military exercise will test robots and autonomous vehicles
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Life
Crashing waves may have spurred the evolution of backbones
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Health
Creams remove skin sun spots with minimal pain and may prevent cancer
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Mathematics
Physicists are turning to Lewis Carroll for help with their maths
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Life
Huddling for warmth gives animals a more efficient gut microbiome
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Physics
The Higgs boson may have stopped the early universe from collapsing
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Technology
Search engine for CCTV lets you find people from their description
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Life
Orangutans are exceptionally good at keeping their infants alive
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Environment
Brazil’s new president will make it harder to limit climate change
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Physics
There is a weird new state of matter that can't be stirred or pushed
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Space
Earth may have a pair of 'ghost moons' made of dust trapped in orbit
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Life
Crickets rapidly evolve new mating call to evade their parasites
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Environment
A freak 1870s climate event caused drought across three continents
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Health
People who gave up smoking cannabis had a memory boost within a week
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Life
Wild populations of animals have crashed by 60 per cent
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Earth
Quakes prompt UK fracking operations to pause several times
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Technology
An AI lie detector will interrogate travellers at some EU borders
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