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More than 75% of global insect species not adequately protected. From insects like bees and butterflies, to organisms such as wasps and mosquitoes, insects are facing threats such as climate change, and a myriad of other ills such as habitat loss and pesticide use.
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New study suggests that music and dance may have evolved (in part) to deter potential predators: these "highly synchronized visual and auditory displays" signal to the predator that a) they have been detected, and b) the targeted group can mount a well-coordinated defense.
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In the first two years of the pandemic, 40,830 children and teenagers lost their mothers to COVID-19 in Brazil. The delay in adopting the necessary public health measures in Brazil aggravated the spread of the disease, resulting in losses of human life that could have been avoided
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Researchers have found that lab mice are more likely to survive a flu infection if they are fed grain-based foods rather than processed food: after being infected with influenza, all of those fed the highly processed diet died, all the other have recovered
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