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Crafty cockatoos learn to use public drinking fountains
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Any wall can be turned into a camera to see around corners
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Before the Great Wall, Chinese rulers built a shallow ditch
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Trump’s Golden Dome defence project could spur a space arms race
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New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system
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AI doesn’t know ‘no’ – and that’s a huge problem for medical bots
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