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World’s first ‘thinking’ robot with a brain created by scientists

It is the first time intelligence has been ‘taught’ to a robot

Singing lemurs have rhythm just like humans, study finds

Critically endangered Indri indri sing harmonised duets and choruses together as family group

Watchdog dismisses calls to remove charitable status from climate denial group

Global Warming Policy Foundation has status as an educational charity, but scientists say its views are ‘detrimental to the public’

The truth about lying: it’s the hands that betray you, not the eyes

By analysing videos of liars, the team found there was no link to their eye movements

‘Flying dragon’ may have existed in Chile, scientists find

‘Maybe they came once and stayed,’ researcher says

This is what happens when you die, according to people who died: ‘I saw my own unconscious body’

Many of their accounts align with a recent scientific study into the subject

World’s largest triceratops skeleton sells for $7.7mn at Paris auction house

‘Big John’ has made it to the Guinness World Records as the largest known triceratops skeleton

Vikings reached America 500 years before Christopher Columbus, study claims

Scientists looked at chopped wood in L’Anse aux Meadows, which has been linked to a Nordic settlement dating back to c 1000AD

Nasa’s asteroid missions could reveal our origins and help save us

Nasa’s exploration of asteroids will teach us a lot about ourselves, not to mention having economic benefits and potentially saving us from a collision, writes Gareth Dorrian

Scientists find prehistoric crab trapped in amber for 100 million years

The crab has been named Cretapsara athanata which means ‘immortal spirit of the clouds and waters’

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