Read more about the article GOING CHEAP: UK Institution Donates Nearly 20,000-Bird Collection To Austrian Museum
Image shows the Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops), undated photo. The British Harrison Institute in Sevenoaks, England will donated 19,000 birds to the Natural History Museum Vienna in Austria on Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. (Robbie Bright/Newsflash)
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GOING CHEAP: UK Institution Donates Nearly 20,000-Bird Collection To Austrian Museum

A British research and charity institution has donated its enormous bird specimen collection to one of the leading natural history museums of Central Europe. The Natural History Museum Vienna (NHM) has announced that it received the Harrison Institute Bird Collection - a Kent-based charity - consisting of 19,000 birds of…

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October 27, 2022
Read more about the article COMING OUT OF ITS SHELL: The 99-Million-Year-Old Snail Which Used Hairs To Make It Sexy
Image shows the hairy snail, undated photo. It was discovered in a 99-million-year-old amber: Archaeocyclotus brevivillosus sp. nov by scientists in Germany in October 2022. (Senckenberg/Newsflash)
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COMING OUT OF ITS SHELL: The 99-Million-Year-Old Snail Which Used Hairs To Make It Sexy

Scientists have discovered a tiny ancient snail that could have used hairs sprouting out of its shell to help it find mates. The creature was found in a 99 million-year-old piece of amber studied by the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research in Frankfurt, Germany. Image shows the fossil snail discovered…

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October 27, 2022
Read more about the article New Photos Show Pretty Teen Who Was Badly Burnt In Bungled Science Experiment Covered In Bandages In Hospital
Annelise Lopes Andrade recovers from the serious burns s as a result of an accident at school in Anapolis, Brazil in November 2021. (Diolange Lopes/Newsflash)
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New Photos Show Pretty Teen Who Was Badly Burnt In Bungled Science Experiment Covered In Bandages In Hospital

These are the first pictures of a schoolgirl engulfed in a fireball that burned her lungs and skin in a school science experiment gone wrong. Now, the mother of injured Annelise Lopes Andrade, 16, has reported her daughter's school in the city of Anapolis in the Brazilian state of Goias…

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January 3, 2022
Russian Boffins Develop Yoghurt Vaccine For COVID-19
Read more about the article Brit Boffin Says Prawn Eyes Hold Key To New Paints
Pic Shows: Dr. Benjamin Palmer, senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry; Israeli scientists led by British-born Dr. Benjamin Palmer are using prawn eyes to develop better and more effective paints that can be ultra-thin and highly-reflective.
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Brit Boffin Says Prawn Eyes Hold Key To New Paints

Israeli scientists led by British-born Dr Benjamin Palmer are using prawn eyes to develop better and more effective paints that can be ultra-thin and highly-reflective. CEN/Ben Gurion University Scientists from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the Israeli city of Beersheba and the Weizmann Institute of Science in the…

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February 19, 2020