Honey Bees Use Animal Dung to Fend Off Giant “Murder” Hornets 🐝

The researchers found that honeybees have developed a pre-emptive defense by collecting animal dung and applying it to hive entrances.
“This study demonstrates a fairly remarkable trait these bees have to defend themselves against a really awful predator,”

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Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine docs hacked from European Medicines Agency

"Today, the agency has been subject to a cyber-attack and that some documents relating to the regulatory submission for Covid-19 vaccine candidate,which has been stored on an EMA server, had been unlawfully accessed,"


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Hackers break into Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine data in Europe

It was not immediately clear when or how the attack took place, who was responsible or what other information may have been compromised
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The Northern Lights May Be Visible Over the U.S. and UK Tonight.

A geomagnetic storm is set to send the northern lights rippling through the dark tonight, in an event so active it’s predicted the aurora is likely to be seen far further south than Greenland and Iceland or Alaska.

Known as the ‘Merry Dancers’ in Scotland, the aurora borealis might also be seen in UK–as far south as the English Midlands.

The intensity of this week’s northern lights is, according to meteorologists, because of a solar flare which recently sent charged particles towards our planet in huge numbers, and the strong solar wind coming from the geomagnetic storm.


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These Giant Mexican Honeybees use a defense known as "shimmering" to frighten off wasps and other predators.

100s of individual bees flip their abdomens upwards to create a wave-like pattern.

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