The same extraordinary properties that make this plant an “ecosystem engineer” also helped save human lives

2009 American 3D epic science fiction film directed by James Cameron

A stiff upper lip and an almost genetic love of tea are what makes the English English. Except that the latter was actually influenced by a Portuguese woman.

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Extinct species of the genus Homo

Ant–fungus mutualism is a symbiosis seen in certain ant and fungal species, in which ants actively cultivate fungus much like humans farm crops as a food source. In some species, the ants and fungi are dependent on each other for survival. The leafcutter…

Sacred tree in Sri Lanka

35 restaurants across China have been found illegally using opium as seasoning in their food, state officials say. Five restaurants are being prosecuted over the findings, whilst 30 more are under

Salvator Mundi is a painting by Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci dated to c. 1500. Long thought to be a copy of a lost original veiled with overpainting, it was rediscovered, restored, and included in a major Leonardo exhibition at the National…

Here are five ways to blitz your next PowerPoint presentation – it's all about the neuroscience, says a University of Melbourne researcher.

When sitting in a quiet theatre or a packed train, stifling a sneeze by holding the nose and closing the mouth may seem like the courteous option.

Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II

When I was a kid, I remember winning a goldfish at a school carnival (what a thrill!). I took it home and put it in a tank in my room, and amazingly, that thing lived for nearly a decade. I would brag that it was my great care-taking skills, but it’s more…

At 98 years old, Joseph Medicine Crow-High Bird is the last surviving War Chief of the Crow Indians.

On 17 December 1967, Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming in the sea near Portsea, Victoria. A massive search operation was mounted in and around Cheviot Beach, but his body was never recovered. Holt was eventually declared…

American singer-songwriter and mathematician

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The Zone Rouge (English: Red Zone) is a chain of non-contiguous areas throughout northeastern France that the French government isolated after the First World War. The land, which originally covered more than 1,200 square kilometres (460 sq mi), was deemed…

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The Canadian Tulip Festival (French: Festival Canadien des Tulipes; Dutch: Canadees Festival van de Tulp) is a tulip festival, held annually in May in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The festival claims to be the world's largest tulip festival, displaying over one…

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