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Rare orchids suddenly bloomed causing half of the golf course to be closed
Ashton Golf Course reduces the number of holes for golfers from 18 to 9 to make room for orchids to grow and seed.
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What about the 'Jurassic park' experiment if replacing dinosaurs with mosquitoes?
Release genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild to reduce the number of mosquito bites in Florida, USA, but many scientists fear will become experiments such as 'J…
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Why are fruit flies so much and so difficult to destroy?
Common fruit flies, also known as fruit flies, have the scientific name of Drosophila melanogaster.
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Cat beard has precious active ingredients that inhibit diabetes
The new study found that the beard grows much in the mountains of Vietnam, has the effect of inhibiting diabetes and resistant to many cancer cell lines.
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Plants have the ability to camouflage scents for survival
The plants in tropical forests have the ability to hide scents to avoid being detected and eaten by insects.
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Why do cockroaches cause scary and disgusting feelings?
Is the fear of cockroaches in humans a purely natural product or a nurtured emotion?
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China announced new findings on the origin of oyster mushroom
Chinese scientists have recently discovered that oyster mushroom, a common edible mushroom, may have originated in the Himalayas mountain range some 39 million years ago.
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Ants also know how to pollinate flowers?
Researchers have discovered that the flowering Conospermum plants in southwestern Australia have grown to allow ants to pollinate them as effectively as native bees.
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Bacteria commit suicide for the sake of their populations
Bacteria evolved over millions of years and formed many strange characteristics.
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Rainy insects are like humans who 'eat' a whole bowling ball in their face, but why don't they die?
How do insects avoid raindrops bearing the shadow of death?
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Why do potatoes have eyes?
We must be no strangers to the small dents on the surface of a potato, often called the 'eye'. However, have you ever wondered why potatoes have eyes, or why they are ca…
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'Terrific grasshopper storm' blind sky during the day in India
The Delhi metropolitan region is preparing to cope with locusts, while farmers in northern India play loud music and car horns to chase the desert grasshoppers of millio…
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The strange evolution of carnivorous plants
About 70 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a genetic anomaly that allowed some plants to turn into carnivores.
Biology
8 types of weeds thought 'impermanent' were incredibly valuable
There are weeds growing everywhere, wisely used to become the most valuable food or medicine.