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Trump signs order to 'make America's showers great again'

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This representational image shows a person holding a showerhead. — Reuters WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order lifting water-pressure restrictions on showerheads, a move the White House said would "make America's showers great again". Trump has...

AI tool aims to help conserve Japan's cherry trees

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A man takes pictures of the blooming cherry blossoms at Hamacho Park in Tokyo´s Chuo district on April 2, 2025. — AFP Japan's famed cherry trees are getting old, but a new AI tool that assesses photos of the delicate pink and white flowers could help preserve them for future...

Dinosaurs may not be in decline before asteroid hit

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A representational illustration shows dinosaurs. — Reuters/File A new study has found that the dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, instead poor fossilisation conditions and unexposed late Cretaceous rock layers mean they're either not preserved or hard to...

Russian man survives bear attack as sightings near Moscow increase

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A brown bear splashes water in a pool inside an enclosure at the Moscow Zoo on a hot summer day in the capital Moscow, Russia June 11, 2019. — Reuters A brown bear attacked and badly mauled a Russian man in a forest about 125 km from Moscow, local media and residents said, as...

Cambodian rat registers record for sniffing out wartime landmines

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Ronin, the rat, pictured while on duty. — APOPO/File A rat in Cambodia has been honoured with a world record after detecting more than 100 landmines and other undetonated explosives in the country, Belgium’s non-profit APOPO announced on Friday. APOPO named...

'I don't have a voice in my head': Life with no inner monologue

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A person is looking into hand mirror. — Reuters/ File PARIS: Mel May only realised she was different while reading a news article one day. "Wait, what? Some people hear a voice in their head?" she thought at the time. She was stunned to discover that this was not just a...

Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage

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A view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya, where two approximately 7,000-year-old Pastoral Neolithic female individuals were buried, is seen in this handout photo released on April 2, 2025. — Reuters The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate...

Over 300 'walking bananas' register unique Guinness World Record

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Banana hats donned people gathered at Missouri museum. — Instagram/@citymuseum A Missouri museum gathered 309 people donning banana hats to break a strange Guinness World Record. The City Museum in St Louis made history on Wednesday as they turned...