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Fire brigade sends two crews and seven firemen to rescue seagull Posted: 2 days ago by AutumnLotus
A fire brigade has been accused of wasting taxpayers' money after sending two engines and seven firemen to rescue a seagull. The brigade struggled for more than an hour to save the injured bird, which was trapped on a factory roof in Bridgwater, Somerset.
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I found dolphin in front garden Posted: 2 days ago by AutumnLotus
Amazed Mike Elliott thought he was dreaming when he woke to find a dead dolphin in his garden. And mystery surrounded how it got there last night – because Mike and pal Gary Harvey live on a steep hill half a mile from the sea.
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Order in: One Rapidly Approaching Deadline—Light on the Procrastination Posted: 2 days ago by AutumnLotus
Reaching a finish line is an obstacle that does not begin or end with procrastination. A college dissertation, however, can be built on the foundations of such a behavior. Studies have proven that a small amount of pressure can actually stimulate comprehension and motivation, something that can be achieved through procrastination.
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Blind dog gets by with own guide dog Posted: 2 days ago by AutumnLotus
A blind dog has grabbed headlines in Norway after it was reported today that she is able to live quite a normal life, thanks to her own leader dog.
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Researchers Discover Remnant of an Ancient 'RNA World' Posted: 2 days ago by AutumnLotus
Some bacterial cells can swim, morph into new forms and even become dangerously virulent - all without initial involvement of DNA. Researchers describe how bacteria accomplish this amazing feat - and in doing so provide a glimpse of what the earliest forms of life on Earth may have looked like.
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Pizza clerk surprised to find robber is her dad Posted: 2 days ago by AutumnLotus
Police said they will not file charges against a clerk whose parents and husband were charged with robbing the pizza restaurant where she worked, officials said.
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Movie shows alien's-eye view of Earth and Moon Posted: 2 days ago by AutumnLotus
A spacecraft sent on a mission to inspect comets has filmed the Earth and its moon from 31 million miles away, making an alien's-eye view of our world. VIDEO
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Man avoids jail over bestiality images Posted: 2 days ago by AutumnLotus
Rodney Scott McLagan, 48, of South Arm, was caught with 31,000 images and video files involving sexual acts with children, dogs, ponies, snakes, tigers and an octopus.
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Alien vs Predator: Cane toad eats snake Posted: 2 days ago by AutumnLotus
A big mama cane toad has sought vengeance on the Keelback snake.
The slithery reptile is a known predator of cane toads – it can eat toadlets and young toads without being harmed – but in this amazing photo the tables were turned.
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Tunguska catastrophe: Evidence of acid rain supports meteorite theory Posted: 3 days ago by AutumnLotus
The Tunguska catastrophe in 1908 evidently led to high levels of acid rain. This is the conclusion reached by Russian, Italian and German researchers based on the results of analyses of peat profiles taken from the disaster region.
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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanosconiosis Posted: 3 days ago by AutumnLotus
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanosconiosis is a type of lung disease.
Trying to pronouce this word will cause me lung stress.
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Sexes need different dinners, says study Posted: 3 days ago by AutumnLotus
The wisdom of feeding the man meat has been thrown into question by a study that shows the secret to a long reproductive life in males is carbohydrates. A study suggests it is females who should be pulling out the steak knife to ensure their reproductive fitness.
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Decapitated teen's head 'used as bowling ball' Posted: 3 days ago by AutumnLotus
A Brisbane man repeatedly stabbed and then helped decapitate a teenage boy in a "thrill kill", a court heard yesterday.
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Hot super-Earths could host life after all Posted: 3 days ago by AutumnLotus
Massive, rocky worlds called 'super-Earths' – even those orbiting searingly close to their stars – may provide the right conditions for life, recent research suggests.
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Jewellery made from human milk: Photos Posted: 3 days ago by AutumnLotus
New mothers will be able to turn their own breast milk into jewellery, under techniques to be demonstrated by a group of artists.
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Wet, almost, all over Posted: 3 days ago by AutumnLotus
Water on Mars was once widespread and long-lasting, providing environments with the potential to support life, a new study finds.
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Air hostess picks up chocolate bar and wins space trip Posted: 3 days ago by AutumnLotus
A French air hostess will become one of Europe's pioneer space tourists after picking a chocolate wrapper out of the rubbish and finding a winning number in a competition to fly to the upper reaches of the earth's atmosphere.
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NYC Man Says He Found 7-Inch Knife In Subway Bun Posted: 3 days ago by AutumnLotus
A Queens, N.Y. man is suing his local Subway restaurant after he made a frightening discovery that gives new meaning to his former favorite, the Italian cold-cut trio: a knife baked right into the bun.
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Proud parents show off their million-to-one black and white twins Posted: 3 days ago by AutumnLotus
Welcoming new twins into the world is always a momentous event. But when brothers Ryan and Leo arrived they had an extra surprise for their parents - they were born with different coloured skin. For one twin to be black and one to be white is so rare that it is thought by medical experts to be a one in a million occurrence.
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Distant solar system body named 'Makemake' Posted: 4 days ago by AutumnLotus
One of the largest objects in the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune, has finally gotten a name: Makemake, after a god in the culture of Easter Island.
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Woman struck by lightning: Amazing footage Posted: 4 days ago by AutumnLotus
A woman who filmed the moment she was hit by lightning has spoken of her terror as the strike passed through her body.
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Australians set a shining standard Posted: 4 days ago by AutumnLotus
Australian scientists say they have achieved the world's most accurate measurement of the fundamental unit of light intensity. Errol Atkinson and colleagues from the National Measurement Institute have refined the measurement of the candela, the basic unit of brightness, to eliminate all but 0.1 per cent of uncertainty.
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'Overweight' firefighter sacked Posted: 4 days ago by AutumnLotus
Trade union officials have criticised the treatment of a firefighter in Aberdeen who was sacked because he was overweight.
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Frantic rescue effort saves doll, not baby Posted: 4 days ago by AutumnLotus
Frantic police smashed a window to rescue a seemingly unconscious baby from a locked vehicle in Queensland last week only to find it was an extremely lifelike doll.
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Is this the brightest star in the galaxy? Celestial body blazes with light of 3.2million suns Posted: 4 days ago by AutumnLotus
Astronomers believe they may have discovered the brightest star in the Milky Way amid a swirling cloud of colourful stellar dust.
Nicknamed the 'Peony nebula star', the celestial body blazes with the light of 3.2million suns in the centre of our galaxy.
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