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[:es] Ancient Roman ‘Gate to Hell’ Killed Victims With Its Deadly Lake [:]

[:es]A cave ancient Romans believed to be a gate to the underworld was so deadly that it killed all animals who entered its proximity, while not harming the human priests […]
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[:es] Saturn Has a Weirdly Neat, Symmetrical Magnetic Field. We May Finally Know Why [:]

[:es]Saturn really stands out among the Solar System planets, and not just because of its glorious system of rings. Its magnetic field is also peculiar; unlike other planets, with their […]
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[:es] Venus Flyby Reveals Low-Frequency Radio Signal Detected in The Planet’s Atmosphere [:]

[:es]During a close flyby of the planet Venus in July 2020, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe detected something odd.[:]
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[:es] 1 Billion-Year-Old Fossil Could Be The Oldest Multicellular Animal on Record [:]

[:es]A teeny tiny fossil found in the Scottish Highlands could be a missing link in the evolutionary history of animals.[:]
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[:es] Climate Change Has Now Invisibly Shifted Earth’s Axis, New Data Reveal [:]

[:es]Humanity’s impacts on our planet’s climate are so profound, we have for decades been unwittingly shifting the very axis upon which Earth spins around, scientists say.[:]
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[:es] Ancient Bear DNA Sequenced From Old Cave Dirt in Historic First For Science [:]

[:es]The dirt scattered across the floor of an ancient, remote cave in Mexico has yielded a new source of viable ancient DNA.[:]
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[:es] Visual Illusion Reveals That Depression Can Change How We Physically See The World [:]

[:es]We know that depression is linked to variations in the way our brains are wired, but new research suggests that people who are going through a depressive episode actually see […]
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[:es] Physicists Observe Fleeting ‘Polaron’ Quasiparticles For The First Time [:]

[:es]Polarons are important nanoscale phenomena: a transient configuration between electrons and atoms (known as quasiparticles) that exist for only trillionths of a second.[:]
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[:es] Research Finds There’s More Than One Type of Curiosity. Which Do You Have? [:]

[:es]Curiosity affects everything from our relationships to our education, but it’s not easy to pin down and put under a microscope to study. With the help of Wikipedia though, researchers […]