To avoid persecution by Stalin, the poet Anna Akhmatova burnt her writings and instead taught a circle of friends the words of her poem Requiem…
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Quick! Try naming five words that start with the letter L. Lollipop, lazy, long, Labrador, like, language… and the list goes on and on. Now,…
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The VII festival of innovation projects Sikorsky Challenge will take place at the National Technical University of Ukraine ‘Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute’ (KPI) in…
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Researchers at Sydney’s Macquarie University have discovered that sharks can recognise jazz music. In a paper published in Animal Cognition, the researchers, led by Catarina…
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Do you know what the first food ever microwaved was? Or who the first person to win two Nobel prizes was? Read on for the…
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