29th June 2018
The oldest known popcorn, recently discovered in Peru, is 6,700 years old.
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A new study has found that British bumblebees fare better in cities than in the countryside.
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The world’s tropical forests lost 39 million acres of trees last year, an area about the size of Bangladesh.
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Scientists at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have identified six distinct types of human disgust.
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The Cassini probe has revealed that Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, Enceladus, has all the basic ingredients to sustain life.
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The world’s fattest hedgehog, handed into a rescue centre in Aberdeenshire and about four times normal size, has been put on a diet and exercise regime.