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[:es]Why many scientists say it’s unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a “lab leak”[:]

[:es]During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the “lab leak” theory gained little traction. Sure, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested SARS-CoV-2 originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China—and called […]
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[:es]Ancient genomes offer rare glimpse of Neanderthal family groups[:]

[:es]More than 49,000 years ago, a family of Neanderthals set up camp in a cave high in Siberia’s Altai Mountains, overlooking a river valley where bison, red deer, and wild […]
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[:es]COVID-19 affects men and women differently. So why don’t clinical trials report gender data?[:]

[:es]COVID-19 doesn’t strike the sexes equally. Globally, for every 10 COVID-19 intensive care unit admissions among women, there are 18 for men; for every 10 women who die of COVID-19, […]
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[:es]European plan for gigantic new gravitational wave detector passes milestone[:]

[:es]It’s far from a done deal, but plans by European physicists to build a huge new gravitational wave observatory with a radical design received a boost this week. The European […]
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[:es]Millions of electric cars are coming. What happens to all the dead batteries?[:]

[:es]The battery pack of a Tesla Model S is a feat of intricate engineering. Thousands of cylindrical cells with components sourced from around the world transform lithium and electrons into […]
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[:es]Mongoose mothers help their colonies thrive—by forgetting which pups are theirs[:]

[:es]Pregnant mongooses in a colony all give birth on the same night, a phenomenon that makes it harder for mothers to know which pups are their own. But that confusion […]
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[:es] The Mystery Formation of Extremely Rich Gold Veins Might Finally Be Solved [:]

[:es]Gold, for all its wonderful uses, isn’t hugely abundant in Earth’s upper layers. For each ton of crust material, there’s an estimated just 0.004 grams of the precious metal. Yet […]
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[:es]More Accurate Clocks Unleash More Disorder in The Universe[:]

[:es]What’s the price of an accurate clock? Entropy, a new study has revealed.[:]
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[:es]No shared language? No problem! People across cultures understand clues from ‘vocal charades’[:]

[:es]One of the hardest questions for evolutionary linguists is why humans speak at all. When people don’t share a language, they quickly resort to using their hands, rather than their […]