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The Bronx Zoo

Life

Why has a court decided not to grant Happy the elephant personhood?

An animal rights group says that an elephant in the Bronx Zoo in New York is so intelligent she should be granted legal personhood, but a court has now issued a ruling saying otherwise

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Technology

Google wants to challenge AI with 200 tasks to replace the Turing test

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Life

When cats chew catnip it releases mosquito-repelling chemicals

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A genetic test in a laboratory

Health

Severe covid-19 symptoms linked to more than 1300 genetic variants

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2DEWC6E Beijing, China. 2nd Dec, 2020. This image taken from video animation at Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) shows Chang'e-5 spacecraft landing on the moon. China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft successfully landed on the near side of the moon late Tuesday and sent back images, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced. Credit: Jin Liwang/Xinhua/Alamy Live News

Space

Moon rocks collected by the Chang鈥檈 5 mission have water in them

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Agama lizard

Life

Lizard unfurls its face like a flower as a way to scare off predators

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Sentinel-3, one of the satellites used by the Copernicus programme

Space

UK may go it alone in orbit after Brexit shutout from EU space plans

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E. coli bacteria

Life

Bacteria bred for 2000 generations settle long-term evolution mystery

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ETKTC0 Tweezers pointing to a tick while doing Lyme disease research in College Park, Maryland, USA

Health

More than 1 in 7 people worldwide have had Lyme disease

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Wood burning fire

Humans

AI finds hidden evidence of ancient human fires 1 million years ago

An AI tool has spotted subtle evidence of changes in flint tools that indicate ancient humans had cooking fires at a 1-million-year-old archaeological site in Israel

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Technology

Robot can find keys in a bag just by listening as it rummages around

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Health

Parts of the brain form a circuit that may fuel smoking addiction

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Environment

England food strategy ducks big questions on health and environment

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Technology

Has Google’s LaMDA artificial intelligence really achieved sentience?

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