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Scrolling for science: How a Twitter post discovered a new wasp in Fukuoka, Japan

The next time you post a nature photo online, you might be contributing to a major scientific breakthrough—just as several citizen scientists did when they helped discover the wasp Eupelmus curvator in Japan.

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Portugal braces for high temperatures in new heat wave

Parts of Portugal, including the Lisbon region, will be placed on red alert after being relatively spared from Europe's worst heat wave, which set records in several countries.

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Defra breached law when it let farmers use bee-killing pesticide, watchdog says

Office for Environmental Protection finds failures by department when it granted emergency authorisation in 2023 and 2024The UK government breached environmental law on several occasions when granting farmers permission to use a bee-killing pesticide, a watchdog has found.In 2023

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Could this asteroid be a piece of the moon? A Chinese spacecraft is about to find out

The moon is not the only natural object traveling through space alongside Earth. Several small asteroids travel around the sun in near lockstep with our planet. And just like Earth, these space rocks also take a year to complete a full orbit. Today, we know of eight such "quasi-m

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Colony connections determine ant wound care: Transitional workers treat injured nestmates

Patients in hospitals generally trust the nursing staff. After all, they have undergone training and, in some cases, have several years of professional experience. In the case of carpenter ants, it is not nursing expertise that determines who cares for the patients.

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'This was something new': What people in Greenland told us about learning to live with wil

After several quieter years, wildfires have returned to western Greenland. O recorte ajuda a contextualizar a pauta dentro de Agro.

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Wild yeast discovery enables non-GM brewing of ornithine-enriched craft beer

As consumer interest grows in foods and beverages with added nutritional value, brewers are exploring ways to improve fermentation itself rather than relying on post-production additives. Ornithine, a naturally occurring amino acid involved in several biological processes, has at

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Nature campaigners take on football club

Kidderminster Harriers want to build several football pitches on nearby green belt land. O recorte ajuda a contextualizar a pauta dentro de Agro.

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Measuring iron in motion at Earth-core conditions

It was a journey to the center of the Earth, if only for the briefest of moments. But rather than tunneling thousands of miles from Earth's surface, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and several universities used the National Ignition Facility (NIF) t

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Nanoplastics found in Antarctic soils for first time, suggesting long-range atmospheric tr

Microplastic contamination has been a much-discussed topic over the last several years, but contamination from even smaller plastic particles represents another pressing issue. Nanoplastics—defined as being under a micrometer in diameter—may pose an even higher ecological risk be

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Why bees are struggling to survive this summer

You may be spotting dead bumblebees lying on pavements near you during the summer months. There are several reasons for this, some related to the weather and some very much due to humans.

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Heavy marijuana smoking may increase cancer risk, researchers warn

Heavy marijuana smoking may raise the risk of lung cancer and several head and neck cancers, according to growing research, but many important questions remain unanswered. Scientists are still trying to determine how much marijuana use is enough to significantly increase cancer r

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