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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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2025-01-31 @ 20.10.53 ∈ In English

(Original story from Heise)

German Seagate customers say their ‘new’ hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours
Seagate has responded to our queries, pinning the issue on resellers not buying from official distributors.
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2025-01-31 @ 19.59.15 ∈ In English

(Article from 2020, about the event in 2000)

How a swarm of moths caused panic during the Sydney Olympics closing ceremony
It took Australia’s 40 best forecasters to predict the clear skies and sunny weather for the Sydney Olympics closing ceremony, and one swarm of moths to put everyone in a flap.
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2025-01-31 @ 16.24.42 ∈ In English

Backdoor found in two healthcare patient monitors, linked to IP in China
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that Contec CMS8000 devices, a widely used healthcare patient monitoring device, include a backdoor that quietly sends patient data to a remote IP address and downloads and executes files on the device.
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2025-01-28 @ 11.06.14 ∈ In English

Rubenerd: Daniel Gerlach’s programming quote collection
Daniel collated a list of programming quotes, though they could easily apply to so many endeavours.
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2025-01-27 @ 17.36.25 ∈ In English

Fossil fuel subsidies: If we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions we should not pay people to burn fossil fuels
Repealing subsidies is not easy, but it is possible – and the world is slowly making progress in this direction
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2025-01-14 @ 15.05.25 ∈ In English

P.E.I. homeowner captures sound and video of meteorite strike on camera, and scientists believe it’s a first
A man in Prince Edward Island got doubly lucky last July, recording a meteorite’s impact on his home security cameras. The space rock also landed in the exact spot he’d been standing minutes earlier.
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2025-01-10 @ 17.12.11 ∈ In English

Bird deaths plummet at Chicago’s McCormick Place Lakeside Center after safety film installed
The initial results are in at Lakeside Center, following the application of bird-safe film to the building's windows: Crash fatalities were down more than 90% this fall, according to Willard, who has been monitoring the site regularly since 1982.
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2025-01-09 @ 17.09.57 ∈ In English

Rethinking population management in zoos: New policy suggests natural reproduction and culling
[Zoos] could preserve their breeding populations, raise awareness of conservation challenges and improve animal welfare and their carbon footprint by allowing animals to reproduce naturally and culling surplus animals.
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2025-01-07 @ 14.26.44 ∈ In English

(From 2017)

Please, enough with the dead butterflies! - Emily S. Damstra
This is an unnatural position for the wings; it’s a pose that may be possible for the insect to assume in life, but not a position that most species typically assume.