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#Conservation: More Antarctic protections urged on World Penguin Day
The world needs to do more to protect the Antarctic wilderness and its wildlife, scientists warned Tuesday, as they marked World Penguin Day. The flightless seabirds — a favourite with children for their clumsy, waddling…
Did you know? Young blood makes old mice smarter
Lab tests in which elderly mice were injected with a protein found in human umbilical cord blood have thrown up an intriguing target for keeping the brain healthy into older age, scientists said Wednesday. The…
#WeirdNews: French ‘human hen’ artist hatches first chick
A French artist who has spent three weeks sitting on 10 eggs hatched his first chick Tuesday. Abraham Poincheval — who made headlines last month after spending a week entombed inside an egg-shaped rock —…
Ancient sacred art resurrected in city of Jesus’s birth
Down a Bethlehem alleyway, sunlight illuminates a golden icon of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, signalling the revival of an ancient art being practised in the workshop inside. The building near the Church of the…
Ants mastered agriculture 30 mln yrs before we did
Ants cultivated designer crops in controlled environments millions of years before humans figured out how to push seeds into the ground to grow food, scientists reported in a study Wednesday. It has long been known…
#WeirdNews: Indonesian man found dead inside giant python
An Indonesian farmer has been discovered inside the belly of a giant python after the swollen snake was caught near where the man vanished while harvesting his crops, an official said Wednesday. The body of…
#BeiYaJioni: Serving our self interests has never been this witty!
Protecting your own interests, no matter at what cost, has never been this witty. Just look at the spirited and colourful cast in Bei Ya Jioni, which is a phrase in Kiswahili that can loosely…
New York skyscrapers adapt to climate change
With a skyline crowded with ever-more luxury towers, the construction of another Manhattan skyscraper wouldn’t normally be remarkable. But the American Copper Buildings going up on the East River — a complex of two towers…
#WeirdNews: Sweden hotel offers refund — only if you divorce
A Swedish hotel chain said Sunday it is offering guests a refund — but with strings attached: you only qualify if you get divorced in the year following your stay. The Countryside luxury hotel group…