Our species may be 150,000 years older than we thought
7 June 2017
New fossil bones and tools from Morocco show that the familiar face of Homo sapiens was present in Africa as early as 350,000 years ago
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Robots will be more useful if they are made to lack confidence
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Making computers less certain of their abilities might stop them filling Facebook with fake news and make machines safer to be around
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Drug that boosts confidence in your own actions may help OCD
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Are you sure you locked the front door this morning? Sometimes it can be hard to judge your own behaviour, but a drug that blocks noradrenaline seems to help
The strange Cook pine trees that always lean towards the equator
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The Cook pine has been spread across the world by cultivators, and their efforts have revealed something unusual – the trees always lean towards the equator
Automatic sign language translators turn signing into text
2 June 2017
Translation devices are being put to work in places like banks to help deaf people talk to non-signers
Huge ice age methane blowout is ill omen for glacier retreat
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Glacier retreat at the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago released huge bubbles of trapped methane, a potent global warming gas
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