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[:es]Sloppy science or groundbreaking idea? Theory for how cells organize contents divides biologists[:]

[:es]For 7 years as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Robert Tjian helped steer hundreds of millions of dollars to scientists probing provocative ideas that might transform biology and […]
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[:es]Like humans, wasps seem to recognize faces as more than the sum of their parts[:]

[:es]Golden paper wasps have demanding social lives. To keep track of who’s who in a complex pecking order, they have to recognize and remember many individual faces. Now, an experiment […]
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[:es]Swarms of robotic fish can synchronize their swimming, for the first time[:]

[:es]Swimming in sync is one of the most important lessons a school of fish can learn: The coordination helps them find food—and evade predators. But when scientists try to train […]
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[:es]The legendary dire wolf may not have been a wolf at all[:]

[:es]One of North America’s most famous ancient predators—and a favorite of Game of Thrones fans—emerged as mysteriously as it disappeared. Dire wolves, which died out with mammoths and saber-toothed cats […]
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[:es]Scientists ‘program’ living bacteria to store data[:]

[:es]Hard disks and optical drives store gigabits of digital data at the press of a button. But those technologies—like the magnetic tapes and floppy drives before them—are apt to become […]
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[:es]After decades of effort, scientists are finally seeing black holes—or are they?[:]

[:es]The observations are already challenging astrophysicists’ assumptions about how black holes form and influence their surroundings. The smaller black holes detected by LIGO and, now, the European gravitational wave detector […]
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[:es]Galloping sea lions could inspire land-sea robots[:]

[:es]Some robots swim and dive through the water; others scurry across the land. Now, researchers want to build a machine that can do both. Their inspiration? The California sea lion.[:]
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[:es]How voracious antlions engineer deadly sand traps[:]

[:es]You’d never know it by looking at the dragonflylike adult antlion, but its wingless larvae—fingernail-size eating machines with huge, poison-filled jaws—build deadly sand traps to capture tiny insects, including ants. […]
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[:es]Slowdown in plate tectonics may have led to Earth’s ice sheets[:]

[:es]In seafloor trenches around the world, slabs of old ocean crust fall in slow motion into the mantle, while fresh slabs are built at midocean ridges, where magma emerges at […]