Perhaps the Most Unpleasant But Interesting Facts About Cockroaches

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Running away from danger, cockroaches are able to «switch speeds.» Scientists managed to notice that as soon as a cockroach sees a creature larger than itself it tries to run away. Its usual run changes to metachron, that is faster when all legs are torn off the ground in this order: front, middle and back.

SOCIETY A Young Trucker Told About Her Work

A Young Trucker Told About Her Work

There are some women who are not afraid to go beyond the generally accepted framework and do as their hearts tell them, even if it alerts the society and raises a lot of perplexing questions. Ekaterina Mironova, a trucker from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia is just such a woman. She told about her work, a 20-ton truck and the dangers on the road in one of the interviews ...