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Jamie Williams sits on the couch in his Cologne apartment and looks at pictures of his former self. "That's soooo cute, I love this picture," he says while looking at old family photos on his laptop. Today, the 21-year-old is happy - with his appearance and life. But that wasn't always the case. "Back then, I wanted everything to be deleted and no pictures of me with long hair to exist. I wanted to somehow erase my former self," he says thoughtfully. The long hair is now a thing of the past. "I now look back fondly on what I've achieved. I'm proud to see that I don't look like that anymore." W...
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Ducks living in cities often breed in flower pots on balconies and roof terraces, as these offer a sheltered spot. The challenge lies in safely transporting their young to a nearby lake or river after they hatch. "You might have a duck who breeds on the 16th floor of a tower block in Spandau. But how to get to the water afterwards with the chicks - unfortunately it doesn't think that far ahead," says Marc Engler, head of the NABU Berlin wild bird centre. Engler and his colleagues have been helping mallard ducks move for several years, because once the chicks have hatched, the journey to the wa...
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Consider the sea urchin. Specifically, the painted urchin: Lytechinus pictus, a prickly Ping-Pong ball from the eastern Pacific Ocean. The species is a smaller and shorter-spined cousin of the purple urchins devouring kelp forests. They produce massive numbers of sperm and eggs that fertilize outside of their bodies, allowing scientists to watch the process of urchin creation up close and at scale. One generation gives rise to the next in four to six months. They share more genetic material with humans than fruit flies do and can't fly away — in short, an ideal lab animal for the developmental...
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Jamie Williams sits on the couch in his Cologne apartment and looks at pictures of his former self. "That's soooo cute, I love this picture," he says while looking at old family photos on his laptop. Today, the 21-year-old is happy - with his appearance and life. But that wasn't always the case. "Back then, I wanted everything to be deleted and no pictures of me with long hair to exist. I wanted to somehow erase my former self," he says thoughtfully. The long hair is now a thing of the past. "I now look back fondly on what I've achieved. I'm proud to see that I don't look like that anymore." W...
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Ducks living in cities often breed in flower pots on balconies and roof terraces, as these offer a sheltered spot. The challenge lies in safely transporting their young to a nearby lake or river after they hatch. "You might have a duck who breeds on the 16th floor of a tower block in Spandau. But how to get to the water afterwards with the chicks - unfortunately it doesn't think that far ahead," says Marc Engler, head of the NABU Berlin wild bird centre. Engler and his colleagues have been helping mallard ducks move for several years, because once the chicks have hatched, the journey to the wa...
DPA
Consider the sea urchin. Specifically, the painted urchin: Lytechinus pictus, a prickly Ping-Pong ball from the eastern Pacific Ocean. The species is a smaller and shorter-spined cousin of the purple urchins devouring kelp forests. They produce massive numbers of sperm and eggs that fertilize outside of their bodies, allowing scientists to watch the process of urchin creation up close and at scale. One generation gives rise to the next in four to six months. They share more genetic material with humans than fruit flies do and can't fly away — in short, an ideal lab animal for the developmental...
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Wu'er Kaixi is still angry when he thinks about the June 4 tragedy that shocked the world 35 years ago, he told dpa during an interview in a tea house in Taichung, Taiwan, on a sunny day in May. The 56-year-old prominent Chinese exile was one of key figures leading tens of thousands of students who protested on Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989, demanding democracy and government reforms. The protest ended in a bloodbath, a subject that remains taboo in China, even decades on. All documents and files about the truth are still kept by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime. To this day, ima...
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Wu'er Kaixi is still angry when he thinks about the June 4 tragedy that shocked the world 35 years ago, he told dpa during an interview in a tea house in Taichung, Taiwan, on a sunny day in May. The 56-year-old prominent Chinese exile was one of key figures leading tens of thousands of students who protested on Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989, demanding democracy and government reforms. The protest ended in a bloodbath, a subject that remains taboo in China, even decades on. All documents and files about the truth are still kept by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime. To this day, ima...
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London, a city once known for its vibrant party scene, is facing an unexpected downturn. Once bustling districts like Soho and Covent Garden are now eerily quiet, while the British media regularly cites horrified tourists who were thrown out of pubs before midnight, unable to find another open bar. The Daily Mail has predicted that London's party scene is "facing annihilation." In one of the newest gripping narratives from us at the dpa trends & features desk, we hear about the factors behind this decline and discover the potential solutions that could revive the city's famous nocturnal charm....
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Churchgoers are used to the sound of coins clinking in the collection basket but one small congregation in the German town of Leer is now allowing people to contribute by card too. Worshippers no longer have to have their coins and banknotes ready but can use their bank cards to make donations at the Protestant Reformed Church in the Loga district. It was quite a novelty, especially at the start, says Pastor Ingo Brookmann. Rather than a collection plate, basket or bag, a small red plastic device is passed from one person to the next - just like the ones at shops' cash registers. The German ch...
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