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Bacteria can work as a team to spot prime numbers and vowels

Bacteria that have been genetically engineered to work like computers can solve a range of problems, using a very simple type of artificial intelligence

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Environment

Jet contrails may cool the planet by day and warm it by night

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Technology

What voice assistants like Alexa know about you – and how they use it

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Space

Search for alien transmissions in promising star system draws a blank

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Life

These fish have evolved legs that can find and taste buried food

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Two versions of the same picture, one altered by AI

Technology

AI tweaks to photos and videos can alter our memories

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Environment

Camellia oil could be the greenest cooking oil – and the healthiest

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Space

Planet in the ‘forbidden zone’ of dead star could reveal Earth’s fate

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Health

How much should we worry about the health effects of microplastics?

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Society

We now know who was cannibalised on the doomed Franklin expedition

DNA and genealogical evidence reveal, for the first time, the identity of cannibalised remains recovered from the Franklin expedition

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Life

Dinosaurs may have run like emus by keeping one foot on the ground

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Environment

Geoengineering is now essential to saving the Arctic’s ice

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Environment

Jet stream shifts are linked to fires, failed harvests and the plague

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Chemistry

Chemists discovered the first new chemical bond in more than a decade

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