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A group of Bonobos

Life

Male masturbation in primates evolved to cut chance of catching STIs

Masturbation in male primates seems to have evolved to boost reproductive success and cut the chance of getting a sexually transmitted infection, but the picture isn’t so clear for females

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Life

Crocodiles can reproduce without males – and maybe dinosaurs could too

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Mind

How your brain stays focused on conversations in a noisy room

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Life

One-off injection may provide lifetime contraception for female cats

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Environment

Kakhovka hydroelectric dam burst: What are the risks to human life?

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Alex Wilkins tests out EVE, a humanoid robot at ICRA
Technology

My out-of-body experience controlling a robotic avatar

Video
A robot and man in conversation

Technology

Massive Turing test shows we can only just tell AIs apart from humans

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Apple has announced its first VR headset

Technology

Apple Vision Pro won’t solve the problems with virtual reality

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Humans

Homo naledi may have made etchings on cave walls and buried its dead

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The Auchencorth Moss air quality monitoring station in Scotland (credit: National Physical Laboratory / Local Site Operator)

Environment

Air pollution monitors have been accidentally harvesting wildlife DNA

DNA from plants’ and animals’ shed cells gets caught in air filters at pollution monitoring stations, providing a valuable source of data for tracking biodiversity

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Life

Underground fungi absorb up to a third of our fossil fuel emissions

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Environment

Planes could soon run on pig fat – but it won’t reduce emissions

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Health

Superbugs will struggle to evolve resistance to unusual new antibiotic

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Health

Ovarian cancer test could detect disease earlier than current methods

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