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Science News Roundup: Singapore battles record dengue outbreak with more mosquitoes; Scientists calculate Earth’s Ice Age temperatures and more – Devdiscourse
Mammal-like Triassic creature beat polar winters by hibernating The tusks of a stoutly built plant-eating mammal relative that inhabited Antarctica 250 million years ago are providing the oldest-known evidence that animals resorted to hibernation-like states…
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Singapore battles record dengue outbreak with more mosquitoes
From the high balcony of a Singapore public housing block, an environment official steadies his mosquito launcher, the latest contraption authorities have devised to combat a record outbreak of the tropical disease dengue. With the click of a button and a whirr of a fan, a hatch opens and 150 lab-reared male mosquitoes are sent flying, off in search of a female companion with wh…
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Noosa News23 hours agoNo matter what happens in his Origin debut, history beckons for rookie maroon Robert Toia
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Noosa News23 hours agoDefence investigation finds Taipan pilot’s actions possibly prevented further fatalities in crash
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General21 hours agoDairy farmers devastated by floods across parts of New South Wales
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General24 hours ago‘Aussie Cossack’ Simeon Boikov’s legal fees paid by fund linked to Russian intelligence