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Technology

DeepMind AI is as fast as humans at solving previously unseen tasks

Artificial intelligences need specific training to excel at a task, but now a more generally intelligent one from DeepMind has performed as well as humans in a virtual world test

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Health

US proposes to ease blood donor restrictions on gay and bisexual men

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Space

Galaxy clusters are smashing together to form ‘flaming cosmic narwhal’

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Traditional cooperative fishing between Lahille's bottlenose dolphins and artisanal net-casting fishers in Laguna, Brazil. CREDIT Photo by Mauricio Cantor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Sciences, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University.

Life

Dolphins that help humans catch fish are more likely to survive

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Life

Animals that care for young may have more mutations and evolve faster

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Environment

Forests bioengineered to capture more carbon will be planted in the US

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Environment

Net-zero aviation needs up to $1 trillion in carbon offsets by 2050

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Beads of microplastic from a cosmetic facial scrub

Technology

Microplastics can be recycled to make electrodes for lithium batteries

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Previous studies have produced different results on the weight-loss benefits of fasting

Health

Only eating between 7am and 3pm helps people with obesity lose weight

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Physics

Doughnut-shaped laser used to create an optical fibre out of air

Shooting a brief but powerful laser beam shaped like a doughnut through the air created a light pulse that acts like an optical fibre, carrying data 45 metres

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Life

Reports of Bigfoot rise when at least 900 black bears are in the area

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Health

US hospitals are facing critically low supplies of liquid ibuprofen

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Life

Bears may self-medicate against ticks by rubbing against trees

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Environment

Two of the UK’s water companies are still using dowsing to find leaks

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