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Florida confirms Burmese python breeding hotspot outside the Everglades, and wildlife experts fear it could be the start of a bigger spread

Florida confirms Burmese python breeding hotspot outside the Everglades, and wildlife experts fear it could be the start of a bigger spread | World News

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For years, efforts to track invasive Burmese pythons in Florida have centred on the Everglades, where the giant snakes have become one of the state’s most persistent wildlife problems. That picture is beginning to change. Wildlife officials now say a separate breeding population has become established farther north along Florida’s Gulf Coast, suggesting the species…

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A six-year-old entered an iron lung after polio. More than 70 years later, he had become the world’s longest-known survivor

A six-year-old entered an iron lung after polio. More than 70 years later, he had become the world’s longest-known survivor | World News

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For many people, the iron lung belongs to history books, a symbol of the years when polio swept through communities before vaccines transformed public health. Rows of large metal cylinders once filled hospital wards, keeping patients alive when damaged muscles could no longer draw breath. Most disappeared decades ago as medical care changed. Paul Alexander’s…

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Quote of the Day by Seneca: 'We suffer more often in imagination than in reality' and how the mind digs its own grave with scenarios that haven't even happened yet

Quote of the Day by Seneca: ‘We suffer more often in imagination than in reality’ and how the mind digs its own grave with scenarios that haven’t even happened yet

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‘We suffer more often in imagination than in reality’ An executive sits in a quiet office, looking at an unread email from the board of directors. Within seconds, her heart rate speeds up, her hands grow cold, and her mind jumps to worst-case scenarios: being fired, losing her career, or facing a public scandal. By…

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Quote of the day by Epicurus: 'Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist...' and the 2,300-year-old argument that destroyed humanity’s greatest fear

Quote of the day by Epicurus: ‘Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist…’ and the 2,300-year-old argument that destroyed humanity’s greatest fear

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‘Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist’ A middle-aged man lies awake at two in the morning, his heart racing as he faces one unavoidable truth: One day, his consciousness will stop. The room is silent, but his…

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16 days after Nolan Wells' death, no one knows what exactly happened to the Mississippi footballer who went to Horn Island with friends

16 days after Nolan Wells’ death, no one knows what exactly happened to the Mississippi footballer who went to Horn Island with friends

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Mississippi footballer Nolan Wells’ memorial service was held on Monday. The memorial service of Nolan Wells, the Mississippi teen who died during a Fourth of July outing to Horn Island, is to be livestreamed today as the mysterious case grabbed nationwide attention because of the race of Wells. Wells was the only Black among the…

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How wild snapdragons fine-tune their shades to attract bees; even the smallest change decide which genes survive

Wild Snapdragons: How wild snapdragons fine-tune their shades to attract bees; even the smallest change decide which genes survive

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The art of seduction is not exclusive to humans. Animals do it, and so do plants. In the floral world, attraction is a matter of survival. Certain plants paint themselves in colours calibrated so precisely that bees can read them like landing signals, even when human eyes barely detect the difference!A new study published in…

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A floating 'igloo' research station has left France for the Arctic, where it will drift with polar ice to study climate change and life in one of Earth’s harshest environments

A floating ‘igloo’ research station has left France for the Arctic, where it will drift with polar ice to study climate change and life in one of Earth’s harshest environments

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The station will drift with sea ice while an international team of scientists collects more than 10,000 samples. (Picture: Tara Ocean Foundation) A floating research station designed to drift with Arctic sea ice has left France to begin a major scientific mission that will study the rapidly changing polar region over the next two years.The…

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Archaeologists uncover 7,000-year-old fish traps that rewrite the story of life before farming in Scandinavia

Archaeologists uncover 7,000-year-old fish traps that rewrite the story of life before farming in Scandinavia | World News

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Long before crops were planted or livestock were kept, people living in what is now southern Norway were already making lasting changes to the natural world around them. High in the mountains, where lakes lay beyond the reach of naturally migrating fish, communities appear to have carried brown trout into isolated waters and created places…

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Illinois farmers are making up to $200,000 a year without growing more crops as solar companies offer long-term leases worth up to $2,000 per acre

Illinois farmers are making up to $200,000 a year without growing more crops as solar companies offer long-term leases worth up to $2,000 per acre | World News

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Illinois farmers have long relied on corn and soybean harvests to generate income, but a growing number are now finding an equally profitable opportunity without planting additional crops. Renewable energy developers are offering long-term leases to build utility-scale solar farms, with payments reaching as much as $2,000 per acre each year. For landowners leasing around…

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