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There are plants that grow only exactly two leaves throughout life and only need 8ml of water each year.
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Poisonous mushrooms, new dangers for migrants
Migrants are warned not to collect strange mushrooms, because it is possible, a delicious and non-toxic type where they come to be extremely toxic in Europe, despite the…
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Giant Arctic mosquitoes thrive because of climate change
Warming temperatures in the Arctic are helping the giant mosquitoes here to flourish and flourish in numbers, potentially threatening to become pandemics in the near fut…
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Life cycle of monarch butterfly
The life of the monarch consists of four stages, from egg laying to maturity and lasting for one month.
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Ancient apple trees spread out with 10 football fields
The apple tree in the city of Krolevets in Sumy province, Ukraine, has a lifespan of 220 years, spread over an area of 40,400m2, equal to 10 standard football fields.
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How big is the world's largest fly?
Did you know that the world's smallest fly is only 0.4mm and the normal fly falls around 8mm ...
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The Jigger - The bug all your life you don't want to encounter
In 2010, there were more than 20,000 people infected with this bug in Uganda within two months. Even many families have died because of this bug.
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The ant ants all
It is often said that in insects, the gods usually only breed when necessary. At that time, a whole bunch of males raced to fertilize the god. But recently, American and…
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'Vaccination for mosquitoes': Strange application in the prevention of dengue fever
Dengue fever spreads through mosquitoes, but the strange thing is that Vietnamese scientists are trying to breed this type of mosquito and release it into the environmen…
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The virus is a living creature and it shares its ancestors with modern cells
The virus is a living creature, and in the old days it also has cells like bacteria, fungi, plants and even animals today. That was the surprising conclusion of scientis…
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A new Quao species was discovered in Vung Tau
In the research program on plant diversity in the Southern region to collect additional specimens for the Vietnam Museum of Nature, scientists from the Institute of Trop…
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'Thien Son snow joint' - endangered precious tree
Despite a government ban, a group of Chinese climbers stole hundreds of cotton
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Spotted spiders know to 'fly' in South America
A group of researchers working in Peru and Panama have discovered a nocturnal spider that has the ability to navigate and glide in mid-air.
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Unexpected 600-year-old lotus seed wakes up to bloom in China
On August 16 in China, an ancient lotus seed of 600 years old suddenly woke up and blossomed. This strange story surprised everyone and attracted much attention.
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High-starch diets have helped the brain get bigger?
Scientists have come up with a major hypothesis that a starch-rich diet has helped our human brains grow larger.