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As seas rise, American history could be washed away

In Jamestown, Virginia, one of the most important places in American history is in a race against time from rising watersSean Romo stops digging the moment he sees a faint line emerge in the sandy Virginia soil.It’s just a slight change in color, but to Romo, director of archaeol

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UK temperatures forecast to exceed 30C as another heatwave imminent

Another heatwave is on its way and set to last significantly longer as Stav Danaos explains. O recorte ajuda a contextualizar a pauta dentro de Agro.

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AI must be built with Indigenous Knowledges, not against them

As Australia marks 50 years of NAIDOC Week, honoring the world's oldest living culture, humanity's newest technology has yet to reckon with a simple principle: "nothing about us, without us." The concern is that artificial intelligence (AI), like so many technologies before it, w

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Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing, scientists say

Study finds those who speak two languages have brains that appear around six years younger than those who speak oneLearning another language could slow ageing in the brain by up to 13 years, according to research.People who speak more than one language seem to have younger brains

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Atomic 'domino effect' found to drive phase changes in a two-dimensional crystal

Phase transformations—in which a material changes from one crystal structure to another, thereby acquiring dramatically different properties—are ubiquitous in nature. Understanding the microscopic mechanisms of these transformations is essential for controlling material propertie

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Simple cell migration mechanism may explain how hair follicles organize before birth

In mammals, hair follicles emerge during embryonic development, forming geometric patterns that vary from one species to another. But how is the position of each hair determined? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has shown that a simple mechanism based on the movement

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Medieval text family trees suggest 60% of works vanished over centuries

For every King Arthur or Roland, whose adventures readers can still enjoy today, another hero of ancient literature may have been lost forever. Before the printing press, texts were copied manually. This process introduced errors and innovations. Like mutations in the replication

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Another success for Hayabusa 2 as it completes a flyby of asteroid Torifune

Hayabusa 2's primary mission is now well in the past. JAXA's asteroid-sampling spacecraft rendezvoused with asteroid Ryugu in June 2018. It studied the asteroid for 1.5 years and gathered a sample that was returned to Earth in December 2020.

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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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The language of play: Hyenas use facial expressions and vocalizations to de-escalate

Scientists observed spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) playing in the wild and found that their precise, sophisticated communication is on par with that of many primate species. Hyenas play and romp with one another at all stages of life. Although juveniles play more frequently tha

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40.7 C heat shatters Barcelona record amid Spain's latest heat wave

Barcelona registered a maximum temperature of 40.7°C (105.3°F) on Wednesday, its highest figure in 112 years of records, weather agencies said as another heat wave struck Spain.

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From The Godfather to Middlemarch: 8 of the most faithful adaptations ever

Adapting canonical literary classics into cinema is an inherently difficult task, as it requires walking a razor's edge between remaining faithful to the text and translating it into another medium.

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