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Baby pufferfish inherit a nearly non-toxic chemical from their mothers; researchers exposed the larvae to predatory fish, which took them into their mouths before immediately spitting them back out

Pufferfish have an interesting way of showing motherly love. Anyone remotely familiar with poisonous foods would know about fugu. It is a Japanese delicacy so dangerous that chefs need special training and a licence to prepare it. One wrong cut could leave traces of tetrodotoxin, a potent neurotoxin.Pufferfish are notorious for carrying this deadly chemical…

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Meet Jacob, the 14-year-old from England who started selling tomato plants from a small cart and now grows 7,000 plants, with customers ordering from overseas | World News

Meet Jacob, Founder of The Tomato Cart. Image Credit: The Shropshire Seaweed Jacob Mann, 14, from Norwich, England, has turned his love of gardening into a growing business selling tomato plants, growing kits and tomato merchandise. It all started from humble beginnings with a few seedlings and a home-made bicycle trailer, and has grown into…

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Stanford scientists have built a fingernail-sized chip that takes jumbled light from multiple sources and separates it into clean beams; the device could one day improve microscopes, telescopes and cameras

Image Courtesy: Institute of Science and Technology of Austria Light is something we rarely think twice about. It enters our homes through windows, illuminates the streets at night and helps us capture everything from a beautiful sunset to the tiniest details under a microscope. But what if the light reaching our eyes isn’t as simple…

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Built in 1864 as a Manhattan fire station, this 7,281-square-foot property became a five-level townhouse with its own underground jazz club; it has now sold for $19 million in New York

A former Manhattan fire station that has found a second life as a luxury townhouse, complete with an underground jazz club, has sold for $19 million. Located at 78 Morton Street in New York’s West Village, the historic property dates back to 1864 and once served as a base for a volunteer firefighting company. The…

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Richard Scott’s son lost High Court challenge over farm promises and 2016 wills; judge also dismissed his stepmother’s claim that his tenancies were shams | World News

A son of businessman Richard Norman Scott lost his High Court challenge over promises he said his father made about the family farm. Adam Scott, Richard’s second oldest son, argued that he was entitled to land after spending much of his life working on the farm. He also disputed the validity of two wills made…

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Meet Vedant Thakker, the 16-year-old California student who built a free wildfire warning checker showing four location categories and is teaching Fremont seniors how to use it after a nearby brush fire

Vedant ThakkerPhoto credit: https://oaklandfiresafecouncil.org/ Vedant Thakker was 16 years old when a brush fire in the hills above his Fremont neighborhood made wildfire risk feel personal. The California high school student later built Red Flag Check, a free website and app that lets people enter an address and see whether they are inside a National…

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In 2010, a developer paid $1.25 million for two wrecked Brooklyn properties; sixteen years later, the 1852 mansion is listed for $20.99 million following a long rebuild, alongside its renovated carriage house

A Brooklyn Heights mansion once described as a “derelict eyesore” is back on the market after a decade-long reconstruction, alongside its neighbouring carriage house, with the two properties seeking a combined $20.99 million, the New York Post reported. The adjoining but legally and physically separate properties are being marketed together as Monroe Place Estates, with…

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Democrats turn up heat on Hegseth, vow impeachment push after midterm victories

US House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries has backed efforts to impeach defence secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of abusing his power and engineering the war against Iran, as Democrats prepare to use their newly secured congressional majorities to increase scrutiny of US president Donald Trump’s administration.Speaking to ABC News on Sunday, Jeffries said he was…

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits affair with Singapore-based company’s CEO; read his email to Nvidia’s employees

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang targetted in alleged ‘Chinese spy’ plot Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to an extra-marital affair with Alice Huang, CEO of Singapore-based company Megaspeed. In an email to the company’s employees, Huang confessed to having a romantic relationship with a suspected Chinese spy. “I owe my family and all of you…

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Billionaire couple Lynda and Stewart Resnick pledged $50 million to UC Davis in 2022; their 34,000-square-foot agricultural research centre opened in May 2026 | World News

PC: The Wonderful Company A philanthropic pledge announced in 2022 has now taken physical shape at the University of California, Davis, where a new agricultural research centre opened its doors in May 2026. The facility, named after California philanthropists Lynda and Stewart Resnick, follows their $50 million donation to the university, the largest contribution it…

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