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2026-03-18 @ 17.07.25 ∈ In English

Bell-bottoms today, miniskirts tomorrow: Math reveals fashion's 20-year cycle
Over the past century, skirt lengths have repeatedly shortened and [lengthened every two decades. But starting] in the 1980s, the data show a wider range of skirt lengths appearing at the same time, suggesting that fashion trends are becoming more fragmented.
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2026-03-16 @ 18.24.48 ∈ In English

Turning mosquitoes into flying vaccine carriers to protect against bat-borne viruses
A team of researchers from China has developed an approach that uses mosquitoes and saline traps to deliver vaccines, as they detail in a study published in Science Advances.
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2026-03-14 @ 20.00.44 ∈ In English

Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection
[Professor Justin Smith] said "a debt of gratitude" was owed to the anonymous late collector, whose films - largely focused on his love of trains and canals, including hundreds of home videos - were donated to FIF after he died.
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2026-03-12 @ 8.57.30 ∈ In English

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Do *you* understand ISO?
This video explains how ISO is very different to what most people imagine, and how you can use this knowledge to take less noisy photos!
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2026-03-11 @ 5.52.00 ∈ In English

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Heat does not reduce prosociality, study suggests
At temperatures above 30°C, participants reported significantly more frustration, tiredness, and unhappiness, but neither heat nor the stress of losing had any systematic effects on egalitarianism, resource maximization, selfishness, spite, or competitiveness.
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2026-03-09 @ 19.02.33 ∈ In English

Camera captures first video of a red fox attacking a wolf pup
The footage clearly shows the fox sniffing around the den cavity, then venturing inside and dragging a live pup back out. The young wolf manages to escape back into the den, but the fox enters a second time and captures it. The sounds of its distress are clearly audible.
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2026-03-09 @ 10.20.34 ∈ In English

What are the world’s deadliest animals, and can we protect ourselves against them?
Deaths from other animals are mostly caused by just two types: mosquitoes and snakes.
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2026-03-07 @ 19.30.17 ∈ In English

Thunderstorms conjure ghostly coronae in treetops, observed outdoors for the first time
For the first time, researchers have observed and measured weak electrical discharges, known as coronae, on trees during thunderstorms, according to a new study published in AGU’s journal, Geophysical Research Letters.
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2026-03-06 @ 9.51.02 ∈ In English

The Black Death's counterintuitive effect: As human numbers fell, so did plant diversity
[Farmlands] were typically separated by woods, rough grazing lands and uncultivated plots, often enclosed by hedgerows or trees. [This patchy landscape resulted in high biodiversity.] The Black Death disrupted this by reducing human disturbance.
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2026-03-06 @ 9.46.47 ∈ In English

Wikipedia hit by self-propagating JavaScript worm that vandalized pages
[The] incident started after a malicious script hosted on Russian Wikipedia was executed, causing a global JavaScript script on Wikipedia to be modified with malicious code.