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Peregrine Falcon lays first eggs in 'penthouse suite' nest: It represents an alternative to more traditional nesting spots in the countryside
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Peregrine Falcon lays first eggs in 'penthouse suite' nest
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Researchers to study Saturn, Uranus auroras with Webb Telescope: Researchers will use precious Webb telescope observing time to study auroras on Saturn and ...
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Researchers to study Saturn, Uranus auroras with Webb Telescope
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Leicester experts develop AI that could help breast cancer patients: Leicester scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool which could help ...
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Leicester experts develop AI that could help breast cancer patients
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Labour pick challenger for Neil O’Brien’s Harborough seat: The seat has been held by the Conservatives since 1950
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Labour pick challenger for Neil O’Brien’s Harborough seat
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Rediscovering Cyprus' Lost Archaeological Treasures - Greek City Times: Researchers from the University of Leicester, led by Matt Beamish, have rediscovered and ...
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Rediscovering Cyprus' Lost Archaeological Treasures - Greek City Times
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No epoch for humanity: Are we humans changing the earth so massively that a new epoch has begun? Geologists have been arguing about this for years ...
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No epoch for humanity
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Proposal to mark a new chapter in Earth’s history will ‘go no further,’ scientists say
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Proposal to mark a new chapter in Earth’s history will ‘go no further ...
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Documentary celebrating Leicester in the 1960s is now available online: Moving in the Shadows explores the artistic and cultural movements that shaped ...
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Documentary celebrating Leicester in the 1960s is now available online
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A breakthrough in treatment for an aggressive fatal lung disease has been made thanks to a two decades’ old discovery by a University of Leicester cancer ... Show more
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Leicester man becomes 'Britain's youngest' PhD holder: Yasha Asley took his GCSEs aged 9 and then went to university at the age of 12
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Leicester man becomes 'Britain's youngest' PhD holder
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A child genius who attended university aged just 12 years old is now believed to be the youngest person in Britain to hold a PhD 🎓 Yasha Asley received his ... Show more
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Five women groped in Leicester in 30 minutes: The women were all in their 20s and police are appealing for any other attack victims to come forward
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Five women groped in Leicester in 30 minutes
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Rare and venomous centipede found in Nottinghamshire for first time: There have been fewer than 50 recorded UK sightings of the elusive bug since 1883.
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Rare and venomous centipede found in Nottinghamshire for first time
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Hospitals issue warning over infectious diseases: A representative of UHL said the step is aimed at reducing risks for vulnerable patients and hospital staff.
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Hospitals issue warning over infectious diseases
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Out of this world 🚀 A lunar lander built by Intuitive Machines has landed on the Moon 🌚 Until now, controlled Moon landings have only been performed by ... Show more
Quick Glance: Moon lander Odysseus tipped sideways on lunar surface
  • Intuitive Machines confirms the moon lander Odysseus is 'alive and well' but resting sideways on the lunar surface.

  • Although the landing was successful, engineers discovered the craft had tipped over during its final descent.

  • Communication with the lander is ongoing, with expectations of obtaining the first images from the lunar surface.

  • Most of the scientific payloads are accessible despite the sideways position, with some limitations in communication.
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Aliens 'almost certainly' exist - that's according to Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, the chancellor of the University of Leicester. 👽👽
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Storm Henk reveals shocking amount of waste in River Soar : 'It is like our dirty litter has been hung out to dry where we can all witness it.'
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Storm Henk reveals shocking amount of waste in River Soar
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Shocking discovery in Scotland reveals skeleton of flying dinosaur that lived in China
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Shocking discovery in Scotland reveals skeleton of flying dinosaur that ...
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Flying dinosaur fossil uncovered in Scottish island has most relatives in China: A flying dinosaur fossil discovered in a Scottish island has scientists ...
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Flying dinosaur fossil uncovered in Scottish island has most relatives in ...
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A new species of pterosaur from specimens found on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, has been announced by scientists from the Natural History Museum ... Show more
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‘As someone with ADHD, filing my self-assessment return is challenging’: While navigating tax returns is difficult for most people, comedy producer David Allison ...
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‘As someone with ADHD, filing my self-assessment return is challenging’
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Digging for Britain to explore Cathedral discovery: Leicester Cathedral is sitting on top of a wealth of history
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Digging for Britain to explore Cathedral discovery
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Teen loses nearly 10st in a year after a decade of bullying: A photo of himself on holiday made him decide weight loss was his only route to happiness
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Teen loses nearly 10st in a year after a decade of bullying
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Peter Shilton and others on the New Year Honours List: A space scientist and the University of Leicester's chancellor are also on the list
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Peter Shilton and others on the New Year Honours List
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City's punk exhibition named England's top project of 2023: More than 250 young people got involved in events surrounding the exhibition
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City's punk exhibition named England's top project of 2023
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University bid to hold late-night events at botanical gardens: Neighbours fear possible disturbance to their peace and quiet
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University bid to hold late-night events at botanical gardens
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Educator says we need to stop pressuring women to have kids: 'Society's idealisation of motherhood benefits no one'
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Educator says we need to stop pressuring women to have kids
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Leicester Diwali Day timings and activities: Diwali Day celebrations are taking place this Sunday - here are all the details you need
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Leicester Diwali Day timings and activities
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A town has been evacuated in southwestern Iceland after hundreds of earthquakes caused by shifting underground magma sparked fears of a full-blown volcanic ... Show more
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Graphics illustrate why the northern lights are spreading their wonder: Wider visibility of the northern lights, or aurora borealis, is becoming more common ...
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Graphics illustrate why the northern lights are spreading their wonder
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What Leicestershire looked like back in 1988: A trip down memory lane through our archives
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What Leicestershire looked like back in 1988
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Ruling due on bid for 7-storey student flats near Tesco: The building would replace the Gill Knitwear Factory site off Braunstone Gate
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Ruling due on bid for 7-storey student flats near Tesco
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New partnership is exciting step forward for NHS trusts and University of Leicester
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New partnership is exciting step forward for NHS trusts and University of ...
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Diwali Day to feature parade of 100 lanterns and giant puppets: New additions to the Diwali Day event also include a performance by a Mercury Music Prize winner
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Diwali Day to feature parade of 100 lanterns and giant puppets
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Multi-sensory rave heads to Leicester this weekend: Dopamine Dreams combines house and tech music with psychedelic paint, inflatables, and art installations to ...
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Multi-sensory rave heads to Leicester this weekend
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The Students Turning to Sex Work to Pay for Uni: Amid soaring rents and paltry maintenance grants, around 56,000 UK students have turned to sex work ...
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The Students Turning to Sex Work to Pay for Uni
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New planning applications set to change Leicestershire: From six new wards at a Leicester hospital to a second attempt to build hundreds of homes on village ...
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New planning applications set to change Leicestershire
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The Climate Change We Have Caused Is Here For At Least 50,000 Years: A little more than two decades on, the future has arrived. By 2022, global temperature had ...
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The Climate Change We Have Caused Is Here For At Least 50,000 Years
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Babies that would have been left to die are now surviving: More babies born at 22 weeks are surviving to discharge from hospital, research suggests
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Babies that would have been left to die are now surviving
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Medieval Cambridge skeletons tell stories of city's inhabitants during plague: Several of the skeletons were identified as possibly belonging to early scholars ...
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Medieval Cambridge skeletons tell stories of city's inhabitants during ...
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Plant that smells of rotting flesh to bloom for Halloween: The University of Leicester's Corpse Flower has a very apt name and means people smell it before ...
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Plant that smells of rotting flesh to bloom for Halloween
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City challenge for cyclist with country's second best handlebar : Mike Simpson's handlebar moustache won silver at the British Beard and Moustache ...
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City challenge for cyclist with country's second best handlebar
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Stories of Leicester University's ghosts uncovered: It is rumoured that ghosts have stalked the halls of some of the university's prominent buildings.
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Stories of Leicester University's ghosts uncovered
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Rise in hate crime 16 years on from Sophie Lancashire murder: Hate crimes against people from alternative cultures are not reported to police more than 70 per ...
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Rise in hate crime 16 years on from Sophie Lancashire murder
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New tech for tackling increasing demand by 'internet of things' on mobile networks
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New tech for tackling increasing demand by 'internet of things' on mobile ...
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Student flats plan near Leicester Tesco branded lovechild of 'barracks and Battersea Power Station' tinyurl.com/5f47uaj8
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Leicester student lifts lid on life with a stammer: She joined Colin FIrth for the show to speak about her struggles
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Leicester student lifts lid on life with a stammer
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Plan to create six new wards at Leicester hospital: Initial documents suggest there could be 168 new beds created on the site
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Plan to create six new wards at Leicester hospital
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Uranus aurora discovery offers clues to habitable icy worlds: The presence of an infrared aurora on the cold, outer planet of Uranus has been confirmed for the ...
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Uranus aurora discovery offers clues to habitable icy worlds
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Bizarre new fossils shed light on ancient plankton: A scientist from the University of Leicester has discovered a new type of fossil that reveals life in the ...
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Bizarre new fossils shed light on ancient plankton
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Curry awards named our best Indian restaurants and takeaways: Leicestershire Curry Awards winners have been revealed
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Curry awards named our best Indian restaurants and takeaways
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Loughborough ranked best in Leicestershire in Good Uni Guide: Loughborough made up a place to go back into the top 10 in the country, while both of ...
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Loughborough ranked best in Leicestershire in Good Uni Guide
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Leicester’s Turi King in new DNA Family Secrets series: Turi King, of the University of Leicester, joins Stacey Dooley on the BBC2 show
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Leicester’s Turi King in new DNA Family Secrets series
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University to sell buildings to fund garden improvements: The local MP wants to see a café built in the grounds
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University to sell buildings to fund garden improvements
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Astronomers spot star being ‘repeatedly shredded and consumed’ by black hole: Event generated regular outbursts of light about every 25 days
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Astronomers spot star being ‘repeatedly shredded and consumed’ by black ...
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Reanimated spiders and smart toilets triumph at Ig Nobel prizes: Electric chopsticks and ‘jamais vu’ studies also scoop awards recognising research that makes ...
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Reanimated spiders and smart toilets triumph at Ig Nobel prizes
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See how your school performed on A-level Results Day: Check through our A - Z listing to see how your school performed - and we hope you have achieved the ...
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See how your school performed on A-level Results Day
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First witness to Great Fire of London is identified: Letters and pamphlets from the time were analysed to find the truth to the 1666 disaster
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First witness to Great Fire of London is identified
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All the events at Leicester's Punk Festival weekender: The festival is organised by the team behind the successful Punk: Rage and Revolution exhibition
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All the events at Leicester's Punk Festival weekender
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Cathedral peregrine dies after 'flying into Highcross window': She was discovered below the glass bridge in the shopping centre
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Cathedral peregrine dies after 'flying into Highcross window'
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Saturn: Here's how long a season lasts on the giant planet: Researchers at the University of Leicester have used the James Webb Space Telescope to make new ...
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Saturn: Here's how long a season lasts on the giant planet
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University of Leicester to sell buildings to help fund improvements to Botanic Garden tinyurl.com/y3p4hxfz
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Youngest ministers in Tinubu’s cabinet: Since the inauguration of the ministers in President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet, all eyes have been on them to see what unique ...
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Youngest ministers in Tinubu’s cabinet
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How museums lost their way: According to researchers at the University of Leicester, museums should help children explore their gender identity
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How museums lost their way
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A newly spotted black hole keeps munching on a star the size of our sun: 'This is the first time we've seen a star like our sun being repeatedly ...
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A newly spotted black hole keeps munching on a star the size of our sun
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Giant plant flowers for first time in 25 years: The Agave can grow to more than 15 feet (4.6m) but was cut back to fit in the university's glasshouse.
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Giant plant flowers for first time in 25 years
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A stunning plant that flowers only once every 30 years has bloomed in Oadby tinyurl.com/y3czdfd3
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A three-eyed organism roamed the seas half a billion years ago: The shrimp-sized, strong-armed creature dating back 520 million years is filling in some ...
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A three-eyed organism roamed the seas half a billion years ago
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A team from the University of Leicester, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Paleobiology and the Institute of Paleontology at Yunnan University ... Show more
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Genes for learning and memory are 650 million years old, study shows: A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Leicester have discovered ...
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Genes for learning and memory are 650 million years old, study shows
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Scientists say they’ve found a site that marks a new chapter in Earth’s history: Geologists have identified a site in Canada that they say could mark a new epoch ...
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Scientists say they’ve found a site that marks a new chapter in Earth’s ...
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Stunning 15-feet plant finally blooms after 25-year wait: The University of Leicester say it won't be around for long despite the long wait
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Stunning 15-feet plant finally blooms after 25-year wait
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Old Tweet Of Ministerial Nominee Bosun Tijani Lambasting Tinubu Resurfaces Online An old tweet of Nigerian-British entrepreneur, Olatunbosun Tijani's ... Show more