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Nature photographer Alan Murphy has arguably managed to capture the best photos of a Grey Owl we have ever seen. The photos taken perfectly demonstrate how inconspicuous and cunning natures best predators can be. “While searching the forests of British Columbia for birds to photograph, I came across this guy. It’s like finding a needle…
First the ability to survive nuclear apocalypses, now pesticides… A new study has found that German cockroaches (Blattella germanica) are rapidly evolving to become resistant to many widely used bug sprays and insecticides, as well as chemicals they’ve never been directly exposed to, making them nearly impossible to eliminate. It’s been revealed that the…
A small study conducted on a strain of the common cold virus shows that it can infect and kill bladder cancer cells. All signs of the disease disappeared in one patient, and in 14 others there was evidence that cancer cells had died. University of Surrey researchers said the virus could “help revolutionise treatment” for…
Mary Virginia Carpenter was born on the 15th of January 1927, and was last seen in Denton, Texas on June 1, 1948. She left her home in Texarkana, Texas and took a train to Denton, six hours away. She packed a brown steamer trunk, a matching makeup case and a black pasteboard hatbox. At the…
Five Minutes Spare, (a.k.a the best website in the world), is based in Cumbria, so we thought we’d tell you a little bit about where we’re from. We’re one of the border counties, meaning we’re a stones throw away from Scotland. Cumbria was created in April 1974 through, essentially, the merging of Cumberland and Westmorland,…
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