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Can we use nudge theory to help endangered animals save themselves?

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Can we use nudge theory to help endangered animals save themselves?

Endangered wildlife often doesn't have time to evolve to rapidly changing environments. Now conservationists are manipulating animal behaviour, using "nudge" techniques akin to those designed to influence humans

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Young eels escape from the mouths of fish by wriggling out the gills

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Facebook AI aims to identify deepfake images and trace their creators

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Facebook AI aims to identify deepfake images and trace their creators

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Fox-breeding experiment suggests domestication can boost brain size

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Fox-breeding experiment suggests domestication can boost brain size

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Female seahorses cheat on their mate when they can no longer smell him

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Female seahorses cheat on their mate when they can no longer smell him

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DeepMind AI taught digital people to play football from scratch

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DeepMind AI taught digital people to play football from scratch

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‘Hangry’ male fruit flies attack each other if they go without food

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‘Hangry’ male fruit flies attack each other if they go without food

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Anthropomania review: Our love of animals and how we live with them

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Anthropomania review: Our love of animals and how we live with them

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Parasitic ants keep evolving to lose their smell and taste genes

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Parasitic ants keep evolving to lose their smell and taste genes

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Scottish blue tits mostly survive on food from garden bird feeders

Garden bird feed is the single most common food source found in a sample of blue tit faeces collected across Scotland

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Life

Toxic beetle’s genetics reveals how evolution makes new organs

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Life

Common swifts can fly more than 800 kilometres a day during migration

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Technology

An AI has disproved five mathematical conjectures with no human help

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Artificial intelligence has been of little use for diagnosing covid-19

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