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2025-06-09 @ 19.21.15 ∈ In English

Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable
Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would quickly die from it. Now, most children in rich countries are cured.
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2025-05-09 @ 7.11.26 ∈ In English

European Red Admiral butterfly sighted for first time in Himachal’s Dhauladhar mountain range
The species was observed near Dharamshala in the Dhauladhar mountain range, marking its maiden appearance in the country. […] Interestingly, there remain no confirmed records of the species from China, Mongolia, or Afghanistan[.]
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2025-04-14 @ 14.19.56 ∈ In English

France shows how Europe can survive Trump
Trump's America threatens European soveregnity to its core. France has long been strivingt for strategic autonomy and proves that this is possible in Europe in a military, energy and technological sense as well. Here's what we can learn from them.
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2025-03-18 @ 11.15.02 ∈ Earworm

Wolves make a rapid recovery in Europe, increasing by 58% in a decade
In most countries analyzed, wolf populations were increasing, with only three countries reporting declines over the previous decade.
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2025-02-27 @ 17.28.43 ∈ Suomeksi

Suomesta löytyi maailman pitkäikäisin kataja – se oli viikinkiajan alkaessa jo satoja vuosia vanha
Maailman vanhin kataja eli 1647 vuotta. Se löytyi Utsjoen Kevolta.
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2025-02-04 @ 16.54.19 ∈ In English

Decoding a butterfly’s travel map: Scientists find globetrotting not in genes
[The] different migration strategies are shaped by environmental conditions rather than being encoded in the butterfly's DNA. […] Additionally, migration patterns in painted ladies could not be associated with factors such as sex, wing size, or wing shape.
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2025-01-10 @ 11.33.06 ∈ Suomeksi

Revontulet näkyivät toukokuussa 2024 poikkeuksellisen etelässä
Toukokuun 10. päivä 2024 alkoi voimakkain geomagneettinen myrsky yli kahteenkymmeneen vuoteen. Myrskyn aikana revontulia havaittiin poikkeuksellisen etelässä. […] Kansainvälinen [työryhmä] koosti kansalaisten havaintojen avulla dataa myrskystä.
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2024-10-10 @ 11.13.23 ∈ In English

The 2024 Living Planet Index reports a 73% average decline in wildlife populations — what’s changed since the last report?
A guide to understanding the Living Planet Index and what it does and doesn’t mean.
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2024-09-15 @ 15.54.07 ∈ In English

‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman
In general, the claims about how long people are living mostly don’t stack up. I’ve tracked down 80% of the people aged over 110 in the [world]. Of those, almost none have a birth certificate. […] [A] Japanese government review in [2010 found] that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead.
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2024-09-14 @ 13.22.30 ∈ In English

(From 2023; Medium.com, eww)

AI and the American Smile
Why do you smile the way you do? A silly question, of course, since it’s only “natural” to smile the way you do, isn’t it? It’s common sense. How else would someone smile? As a person who was not born in the U.S., who immigrated here from the former Soviet Union, as I did, this question is not so simple.