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[:es]Vaccines that can protect against many coronaviruses could prevent another pandemic[:]

[:es]In 2017, three leading vaccine researchers submitted a grant application with an ambitious goal. At the time, no one had proved a vaccine could stop even a single beta coronavirus—the […]
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[:es] For The First Time, Scientists Have Performed Atom Interferometry in Space [:]

[:es]To make some of the most precise measurements we can of the world around us, scientists tend to go small – right down to the atomic scale, using a technique […]
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[:es]Nature’s most magnetic objects, ripped apart in starquakes, can unleash powerful flashes of light[:]

[:es]On 15 April 2020, a wave of gamma rays, nature’s most powerful kind of light, washed across the Solar System like a storm front. First contact came above Mars, where […]
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[:es]Hard choices emerge as link between AstraZeneca vaccine and rare clotting disorder becomes clearer [:]

[:es]What was a worrisome suspicion four weeks ago is now widely accepted: The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine can, in very rare cases, cause a disorder characterized by dangerous blood clots and […]
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[:es]Particle mystery deepens, as physicists confirm that the muon is more magnetic than predicted[:]

[:es]A potential chink in physicists’ understanding of fundamental particles and forces now looks more real. New measurements confirm a fleeting subatomic particle called the muon may be ever so slightly […]
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[:es]Birds versus bees: Here are the winners and losers in the great pesticide trade-off[:]

[:es]Farms are battlefields, pitting growers against rapacious pests and aggressive weeds in never-ending, costly campaigns that often involve chemical weapons. Those weapons, alas, also harm innocent bystanders such as bees, […]
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[:es]Earliest South American migrants had Indigenous Australian, Melanesian ancestry[:]

[:es]In 2015, scientists discovered something surprising: that some Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon were distantly—but distinctly—related to native Australians and Melanesians. The genetic signal of Australasian ancestry in so […]
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[:es]Dark matter could warm the hearts of lonely old planets, scientists predict[:]

[:es]Dark matter might be raising the temperature of planets outside our Solar System, a pair of physicists predicts. Space telescopes already in the works should be able to spot the […]
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[:es]New generation of carbon dioxide traps could make carbon capture practical[:]

[:es]Windmills and solar panels are proliferating fast, but not fast enough to stave off the worst of climate change. Doing so, U.N. climate experts say, will also require capturing carbon […]