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Boston Dynamics tries using ‘robot dogs’ for deliveries

Boston Dynamics' robotic quadruped Spot has already found work doing routine factory inspections and patrolling the ruins of Pompeii, but what about deliveries? The company is testing a new conveyor belt accessory that allows Spot to carry packages from a vehicle and autonomously

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‘The sea took everything away’: how Nigeria’s ‘Happy City’ is disappearing beneath the wav

More than half of Ayetoro – a Christian utopia founded in the 1940s – has been lost to the ocean, and its remaining people are running out of optionsIn the early hours of 15 February 2019, the Atlantic Ocean came for Arowo Victoria’s livelihood. The 60-year-old retired midwife wa

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Summer's silent killer: Why the world's heat waves are a global health emergency

Heat is no longer a future climate risk. It is already here. O recorte ajuda a contextualizar a pauta dentro de Agro.

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Researchers provide economic evidence base for shift away from animal testing

Researchers at Northumbria University have produced new economic evidence demonstrating the significant and growing commercial value of alternatives to animal testing in the U.K., with findings already featuring in parliamentary debate on the issue.

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Commute stress can fuel workplace conflict, but research suggests a simple fix

Pothole season, summer construction season or maybe bad weather. No matter the time of year, it's no surprise commuters who drive to work may start their day already feeling a bit on edge.

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‘We feel like the peasants’: women and low-income families bear brunt of heatwave

As temperatures soar across Europe, cities are struggling to adapt, further exacerbating socioeconomic divisions The heatwave afflicting western Europe is the worst ever, with the combination of heat and humidity fuelled by the climate crisis making scores of cities feel unliveab

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NASA's PACE mission studies smoke and fires

With the North American fire season underway, and a record number of acres already burned nationwide, NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite's three instruments are observing vegetation precursors to fires, along with plumes of smoke and their movem

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Japan's small cities may face higher care burdens under the compact city policy

As populations decline and age across the developed world, compact city strategies, which oversee the consolidation of urban facilities and guide residents toward transit-served hubs, have become mainstream policies. Yet most evidence about their benefits comes from cities that a

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Australia’s next summer isn’t guaranteed to be the hottest yet – but it’s looking likely |

A warm start to winter is part of a global trend of extreme and unseasonable temperatures caused by global heatingMany parts of Australia have already broken early winter maximum and minimum temperature records.In southern Australia, Sydney and Melbourne had their warmest-ever st

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Country diary: Our pond is a year old – already dragonflies are emerging | Nic Wilson

Hitchin, Hertfordshire: The broad-bodied chaser is often the first to arrive at a new pond, and sure enough, I spot an exuvia clinging to a leaf bladeThe hole in the nest box on our house wall is all mouth. A sparrow chick on the cusp of fledging has thrust its head out, beak ope

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The Guardian view on gene-edited humans: darker uses must be acknowledged alongside medica

Polling shows that the public supports this new technology, but the conversation must move beyond simple questions of safetyEver since Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology emerged in the early 2010s, ethical questions around genetically altered humans, so-called designer babies, h

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Country diary: A single act of care 40 years ago, and we have this splendid, rare colony |

Ailsworth, Cambridgeshire: It’s hard enough to find the crested cow-wheat, it would be even harder were it not for one far-sighted wardenBefore 7am, the heat is already pressing down. I’ve come out early for my annual pilgrimage to a local colony of crested cow‑wheat, Melampyrum

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