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[:es]Ultrasound reads monkey brains, opening new way to control machines with thought[:]

[:es]The most advanced mind-controlled devices being tested in humans rely on tiny wires inserted into the brain. Now researchers have paved the way for a less invasive option. They’ve used […]
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[:es]Researchers re-create key human embryo stage in lab[:]

[:es]A human embryo at the blastocyst stage is smaller than the tip of a ballpoint pen and may contain fewer than 100 cells, but this developmental waypoint has long puzzled […]
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[:es]New Ebola outbreak likely sparked by a person infected 5 years ago[:]

[:es]An Ebola outbreak in Guinea that has so far sickened at least 18 people and killed nine has stirred difficult memories of the devastating epidemic that struck the West African […]
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[:es]‘Blinged out’ female ruler may be evidence of powerful women during Bronze Age[:]

[:es]As the many broken, battered bodies recovered from ancient burials can attest, the European Bronze Age was a tough time to be alive. Most historians and archaeologists have assumed these […]
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[:es]Ancient Earth was a water world[:]

[:es]Across the ages, sea levels have risen and fallen with temperatures—but Earth’s total surface water was always assumed to be constant. Now, evidence is mounting that some 3 billion to […]
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[:es]Butterflies are vanishing in the western U.S.—but not for the reasons scientists thought[:]

[:es]Earth is in the midst of an insect apocalypse, with thousands of species dwindling over the past several decades. Scientists have often blamed habitat loss or pesticide use. But a […]
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[:es]The genes behind the sexiest birds on the planet[:]

[:es]For a glimpse of the power of sexual selection, the dance of the golden-collared manakin is hard to beat. Each June in the rainforests of Panama, the sparrow-size male birds […]
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[:es]When should you end a conversation? Probably sooner than you think[:]

[:es]While studying for his master’s degree at the University of Oxford, Adam Mastroianni confronted a fear common to many party goers: Would he get stuck in a conversation with no […]
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[:es]The first organism to use oxygen may have appeared surprisingly early[:]

[:es]The first organisms to “breathe” oxygen—or at least use it—appeared 3.1 billion years ago, according to a new genetic analysis of dozens of families of microbes. The find is surprising […]