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'Hostilities began in an extremely violent way': How chimp wars taught us murder and cruelty aren't just human traitsCan chimpanzees wage war? In this excerpt from "The Beast Within: Human as Animals," scientific researcher Jessica Serra looks at the dark side of our cousins' behavior.
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'It would be within its natural right to harm us to protect itself': How humans could be mistreating AI right now without even knowing itHow can we truly know if AI is sentient? We do not yet fully understand the nature of human consciousness, so we cannot discount the possibility that today's AI is indeed sentient — and that we are mistreating it to potentially grave consequences.
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'Most of Gorongosa's large animals had died': How an African paradise for nature recovered from the ravages of war"Where once there had been more than two thousand elephants, now there were fewer than two hundred."
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'We don't yet have the know-how to properly maintain a corpse brain': Why cryonics is a non-starter in our quest for immortalityIn a new book, renowned biologist Venki Ramakrishnan explores the reasons why we die, and discusses unproven ways people hope to cheat death, such as cryogenics.
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'Hunter-gatherers must have gazed in horror': What would Toba's supereruption have been like for our ancient relatives?"This was a blast 150 times bigger still than Tambora's, disgorging enough pyroclastic rock to cover the whole of the United States to the depth of a one-storey home."
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'Parasitic provider of sperm on-tap': Why the sex lives of deep sea creatures demand extreme solutionsFrom the opportunistic "have-a-go" approach of octopuses to "accessory males" that supply female anglerfish with a lifetime of sperm, author Jon Copley explores the sex lives of deep sea creatures.
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