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2025-11-03 @ 11.55.47 ∈ In English

Is vaping less harmful than smoking, and does it help people quit?
[The] summary is quite simple: many health bodies suggest that vaping is much less harmful than tobacco. While they advise against it for young people or non-smokers, they do recommend it as a “quitting tool” for smokers for the health benefits of switching.
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2025-03-21 @ 19.56.38 ∈ In English

A Real-Life Sharktopus: Scientists Capture Footage of Octopus Riding Shark’s Back
Marine scientists in New Zealand have documented the world’s weirdest road trip pairing.
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2024-12-13 @ 16.55.05 ∈ In English

Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not speaking Spanish
Nigel Richards has also been champion in English and – after memorising dictionary in nine weeks – French
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2023-12-13 @ 17.42.50 ∈ In English

Global assessment of free-ranging cats shows they eat more types of creatures than previously thought
They summed up their findings by suggesting that cats worldwide are eating pretty much anything that they are able to catch and kill, ranging from rats and mice to snakes and frogs, spiders, and of course, birds—many, many birds.
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2023-12-12 @ 20.01.13 ∈ In English

Extremely rare half female, half male bird captured on film
A striking and extremely rare half female, half male bird has been spotted by a University of Otago zoologist.
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2023-11-24 @ 10.26.38 ∈ In English

Moth found in West London is a new species from Australia
In 2021 an amateur moth-er living in Ealing, West London, opened her moth trap to find something she didn’t recognise. […] Detailed analysis of the moth, including both morphology and DNA, revealed that the insect was indeed a new species to science, but one that is native to Western Australia rather than Ealing.
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2022-01-15 @ 18.43.19 ∈ In English

NIWA Weather on Twitter
High-resolution Himawari satellite imagery of the #HungaTongaHungaHaapai volcanic eruption in Tonga 🌋

Our climate stations recorded a brief spike in air pressure as the atmospheric shock wave pulsed across New Zealand.