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2023-05-12 22:25:09 The most extravagant purchases from some of your favorite celebrities!

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2023-05-12 21:11:35 The UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority confirmed the birth of UK’s first babies created using an experimental technique combining DNA from three people.

The technique is aimed at preventing rare genetic diseases being passed onto the children from their parents. The treatment is called mitochondrial donation, which takes genetic material from an egg or embryo of a woman with faulty mitochondria and transfers it to a donor egg or embryo that has healthy mitochondria.

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2023-05-11 20:26:45 In social bees and wasps, pheromones act as an alarm. They are secreted by some of the group when they think they are in danger, like if the nest is disturbed or one of them is killed. The rest of the wasps react to the pheromones by swarming out of the nest and attacking the intruder.⁠
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Social wasps and honeybees both use pheromones, secreted or excreted chemicals that trigger a social response in members of the same species. When a wasp stings a human approaching a nest, the small insect simultaneously emits a chemical that signals the rest of the colony to attack.⁠
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2023-05-11 17:17:06 A mango leaf is cut in a laboratory and kept under a microscope. The bubbles coming out of the leaf is oxygen

Mango leaves continue to release oxygen for a couple of days at least, after cutting them

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2023-05-09 22:47:02 ​​The right whale has the largest testicles in nature – each one weighs a ton and produces a gallon (4.5 litres) of sperm.

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2023-05-09 20:36:21 The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, is the owner of the world's biggest car collection, with around 7,000 cars worth over $5 billion.

Half of all Rolls-Royces and Bentleys sold in the early and mid-1990s were bought by him and his family. His extensive collection includes some amazing and rare vehicles, including specially commissioned Ferraris, a Bugatti EB110, a unique Brunei-commissioned Aston Martin Vantage 'Special Series,' and the Bentley Dominators, the company's first SUV

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