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Scientists Are Warning Influencers to Stop Chasing Shark Selfies After a String of Attacks
Shark attacks are, statistically, rare — but researchers say a specific pattern within them is becoming harder to ignore: a growing number of the people getting bitten are influencers and content creators actively trying to get close to sharks for social media footage. A String of Recent Incidents At least three influencers have been attacked…
The 10-Year-Old Whose Backyard Butterfly Experiment Caught a Georgetown Scientist’s Attention
Most kids in Kobe, Japan spend their free time on baseball, Pokémon cards, or manga. Jo Nagai spent his hand-raising swallowtail butterflies — and along the way, stumbled into a question serious entomologists have spent careers trying to answer. A Question Sparked by a Habit Asian swallowtails, easily recognized by the bright markings along their…
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Lamb’s Quarters: The Wild “Weed” That Outperforms Spinach in Nutrition
Most people who find Lamb’s Quarters growing in their garden pull it out without a second thought. It looks unremarkable — pale green, diamond-shaped leaves, a faint white…
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A Restaurant Put Up One Simple Sign for Its Teenage Staff — and It Says Everything We Forget to Say
Some signs tell you where the bathroom is. Others tell you not to block the counter. And then, every once in a while, a sign stops you mid-step…
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Bees Can Smell 50 Times Better Than Dogs — Here’s How
A honey bee’s body is a small marvel of specialized engineering — built almost entirely around two tasks: finding flowers and getting…
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Elderly Mushroom Picker Dies in Suspected Bear Attack in Japanese Forest
A man in his 70s has died after a suspected bear attack while picking mushrooms in a forest in Iwate Prefecture, northern…
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