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DeepMind AI learns physics by watching videos that don’t make sense
An algorithm created by AI firm DeepMind can distinguish between videos in which objects obey the laws of physics and ones where they don't
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Make mistakes on purpose 鈥� it can dramatically boost your performance
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Learning whilst you sleep was big business in the Soviet Union
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Teen born without half her brain has above average reading skills
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Nightingales practise new songs in winter to impress mates in spring
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Macaques really can use logical reasoning to solve puzzles
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Our brains replay experiences when we rest to help us make decisions
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Wasps are the first invertebrates seen to use a type of logic
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We鈥檙e being overwhelmed by a deluge of insignificant decisions
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All the info our brain needs for language nearly fits on a floppy disc
To learn language, we store information about word sounds, syntax and more.聽It turns out that all this amounts to聽about 1.5 megabytes of data 鈥� just over the size of a floppy disc
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First direct evidence that later school day really does help teenagers
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Smarty plants: They can learn, adapt and remember without brains
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Don’t teach kids 鈥� I’ve shown their hive mind can learn on its own
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How to hack your unconscious鈥� to boost your memory and learn better
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