The Atlantic – Page 2 – Chair of Scientific Culture of the University of the Basque Country

[:es]Lion Bones Are Popping Up in Some Very Unexpected Places[:]

[:es]Archaeologists long assumed that the only lions on the continent were mythical. Then they started finding bones.[:]

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[:es]Climate Change Is Going to Be Gross[:]

[:es]The thick layer of mucilage that covered the Sea of Marmara for weeks was an unsettling glimpse of climate change’s more oozy effects.[:]

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[:es]Let’s Talk About Brines. No, Not That Kind.[:]

[:es]The solar system is full of brines, and they’re crucial to the search for extraterrestrial life.[:]

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[:es]Spiders are much smarter than you think[:]

[:es] Cognition researchers are discovering surprising capabilities among a group of itsy-bitsy arachnids [:]

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[:es]The Search for Intelligent Life Heads Underwater[:]

[:es]Researchers are using AI to try to communicate with whales.[:]

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[:es]The Animal Kingdom Is Full of Genetic Screwballs[:]

[:es]All sorts of creatures jettison parts of their own DNA, and scientists have no idea why.[:]

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[:es]Why Are Gamers So Much Better Than Scientists at Catching Fraud?[:]

[:es]A pair of recent cheating scandals—one in the “speedrunning” community of gamers, and one in medical research—call attention to an alarming contrast.[:]

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[:es]If Aliens Are Out There, They’re Way Out There[:]

[:es]Real evidence of extraterrestrial life will come from a distant corner of space, not UFOs in our sky.[:]

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[:es]Pay No Attention to That Cat Inside a Box[:]

[:es]For all the hype that box-cats command, scientists still don’t fully understand why felines both big and small so fervidly flop their keisters into anything and everything. And because cats are generally uncooperative study subjects, humans have had a hell of a time trying to suss it all out. “We can’t get into those little…