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A group of international studies comparing brain development in birds and mammals suggests that vertebrate intelligence evolved independently, multiple times. Despite the differences in the brain structures in birds and mammals, the separate evolutionary paths converged on a similar form of functional intelligence. Original Papers: “Constrained roads to complex brains”Continue Reading

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Watch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show. Sign up for Here’s The Deal with Lisa Desjardins: https://to.pbs.org/41q6E8i Subscribe for exclusive content in our newsletters: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/subscribe PBS News podcasts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcastsContinue Reading

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A CCTV footage captured a Russian drone striking a school in Kyiv on Thursday, according to the city officials, destroying the building’s brick facade to show a large hole, revealing a staircase, and burn marks alongside smashed windows. (AP Video shot by Vasilisa Stepanenko) Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com​ ThisContinue Reading

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Thousands of protesters camped out on Madrid’s main square and in other Spanish cities demanded that parliament swiftly approve ‌new measures to protect tenants and curb the country’s acute housing crisis. The demonstrations were ignited last week by the dramatic eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her Madrid home ofContinue Reading

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Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton walked out of a closed-door Capitol Hill briefing on September 17 and gave lawmakers a deadline. “Maybe a year, but not much more than a year,” he told reporters, describing how long Congress has before artificial intelligence moves beyond meaningful human control. It’s not an outlierContinue Reading

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Two years after Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah is weaker but not finished. WaTaawanou, a crowdfunded charity outside Hezbollah’s formal hierarchy, exemplifies one way Hezbollah endures: outsourcing part of the cost of sustaining – and retaining – its Shiite base. Israel eliminated its seniormost military and political leadership, over 5,000Continue Reading