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Endangered male northern quolls are giving up sleep in favour of having more sex – and it could be killing them, according to a study that investigated why male northern quolls usually mate themselves to death in one season while females can live and reproduce for up to four years.
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Weed-Friendly Posts on Social Media Get Teens Using Cannabis. More than 80% of participants reported seeing pro-cannabis messages. These posts talked about being high or claimed marijuana was harmless. The pro-cannabis messages most often encountered were from celebrities or in song lyrics.
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An Investigation into the Environmental Impacts of Food Choices found the ketogenic diet to have the highest emissions, while the vegan diet had the lowest. Animal products, especially red meat produced the biggest impact. The highest emission diets had up to four times the impact of the vegan diet.
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Planting more trees could axe summer deaths by a third. Modelling of 93 European cities finds that increasing tree cover up to 30% can help lower the temperature of urban environments by an average of 0.4°C and prevent one in three heat deaths as a result.
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A new biomaterial that can be injected intravenously, reduces inflammation in tissue and promotes cell and tissue repair. The biomaterial was tested and proven effective in treating tissue damage caused by heart attacks in both rodent and large animal models
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