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2026-06-16 @ 15.41.03 ∈ In English

Experts probe 'shock' arrival of mosquito virus in Scotland

In April, UK authorities said that Usutu virus had been identified in blackbirds in Scotland for the first time. Despite climate change pushing temperatures higher, scientists still thought it was too cool in Scotland for Usutu to thrive.

2026-06-15 @ 12.52.23 ∈ In English

Research reveals how parenting styles influence children's honesty

The studies suggest this is not out of defiance, but rather a way for children to cope with self-criticism, the pressure to perform and the fear of making mistakes.

2026-06-14 @ 15.50.32 ∈ In English

Dragonfly and damselfly migrations crisscross planet, with 100 species confirmed

[Only] 1.5% of all dragonfly and damselfly species migrate (or 2.9% including possible migrants)—but the migrations can include millions of individuals, and some travel thousands of kilometers.

2026-06-10 @ 18.13.40 ∈ In English

People have an inherent preference for counterclockwise motion, study reveals

[The vast majority of people studied preferred counterclockwise turning. Culture or gender made little difference.] Only age showed a noticeable but small change, in that younger people followed this pattern more strongly.

2026-06-10 @ 12.08.07 ∈ In English

Gleam-glum effect reveals emotional word cues in children as young as five

Overwhelmingly, study participants paired the made-up words with "ee" sounds with the pictures showing happy animals, and the made-up words with "uh" sounds with the pictures showing unhappy animals.

2026-06-05 @ 21.51.42 ∈ In English

Europe's aversion to eating insects may have deep ecological and evolutionary roots

In North Eurasian human populations, chitinase genes carry mutations that confer a reduced capacity to digest insect exoskeletons, a trait that has persisted for the last 9,000 years, since the advent of agriculture.

2026-06-04 @ 16.50.22 ∈ In English

Microsoft's Coreutils project brings Linux commands to Windows

Coreutils for Windows includes numerous commands commonly used in Linux, such as cat, cp, find, grep, hostname, ls, mv, pwd, rm, sleep, tee, and uptime.

2026-06-02 @ 13.13.11 ∈ In English

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How Ukraine quietly became a military superpower

When the war started, Ukraine was critically reliant on weapons imports. But through years of hard work and innovation, it became a weapons exporter now, too, with almost 20 countries relying on them, from the Gulf states to Europe and the US.

2026-05-31 @ 17.39.18 ∈ In English

Mosquitoes learn to link the smell of DEET with a blood meal, new study finds

About 50% of the mosquitoes who went through the DEET-blood meal training program tried to bite the hand coated in DEET. By contrast, 100% of untrained [mosquitoes] avoided the hand covered in DEET and went for the clean one instead.

2026-05-25 @ 12.45.07 ∈ In English

Five million children die every year — what do they die from?

To reduce child mortality, we need to understand what children are dying from.