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Honeybees are barging aside wild pollinators in hunt for pollen and nectar, study finds

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Honeybees are outcompeting wild pollinators for resources by aggressively bumping into them and chasing them away from flowers, research has shown.

The study, by researchers from Anglia Ruskin University, found that areas where there were higher concentrations of honeybees had fewer wild pollinators, such as bumblebees, solitary bees and hoverflies.

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37 Years Ago, 'Garfield' Suddenly Changed Genres With a Mind-Blowing Comic Strip

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Published Oct 17, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

Has every strip for the last 37 years been set in a cat's delusions?

For one week in 1989, Garfield was a horror comic

An animated Garfield, wearing a bib and holding a fork and knife, is ready to absolutely chow down on some lasagna in The Garfield Movie. Image: Project G Productions

In 2012, Randall Munroe introduced the concept of "today's lucky 10,000" in his webcomic xkcd. He posits that any widely-known fact or idea spreads at a rate of roughly 10,000 people per day. There's really no such thing as something that "everyone knows." If someone you know isn’t familiar with something that you think is obvious, that’s not a failure of theirs. It just means they’re one of the people who get to learn about it today.

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26 Years Ago, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Officially Launched Its Most Controversial Couple

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It comes at the end of an episode that, for all intents and purposes, is pure setup. Spike (James Marsters) lounges morosely in his crypt, harmless after having a chip installed in his brain that prevents him from hurting humans. Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) kicks down his door and announces that she’s done with him. She’s killing him once and for all.

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Senegal-sized Antarctic glacier melting faster than thought: Why it matters

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The world’s largest glacier is melting much faster and could add twice as much to global sea levels as previously expected over the next century.

New research published this week by a team of glaciologists has found that the Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica is losing mass rapidly because warm seawater is pushing underneath it and melting its core. This could add 1.2 inches (30mm) to water levels even if global warming does not accelerate as predicted.

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Dubois vs Wardley 2 predictions for heavyweight WBO title fight from fighters and pundits

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'Life on the line' for Dubois & Wardley in rematch

Five months after producing one of the most dramatic heavyweight fights of the year, Daniel Dubois and Fabio Wardley will renew their rivalry in London on Saturday.

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