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Dohr, Germany Info from Licensor: "Lothar Lenz and the life of wasps and honeybees - A summer in the Eifel My home is in the middle of the idyllic Eifel, surrounded by forests, meadows and fields. My ...

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"This is something we haven’t seen before," Lisa Nortmann, a scientist at the University of Göttingen who led the new ...

Astronomers identified colossal jet-streams on planet WASP-127b in our galaxy, with winds reaching 33,000 km/h. Meanwhile, a ...

Marvel movies are known for including Easter eggs and hidden nods, but it seems some of them are so deep cut that it takes ...

New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing ...

To hear Jon Favreau tell it, the first Iron Man trailer premiering at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2007 made that movie’s reputation. Time and time again, Favreau has recalled how trepidation over this ...

For Emmeline Summerton, a self-taught social historian whose Instagram account, Lost Canyons LA, has become an addictive ...

We spent the following week exploring the nest and learning all about wasps. The children were eager and excited to see and ...

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