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[:es]Scientists say they’ve cracked the mystery of why whales migrate—and it’s all about healthy skin[:]

[:es]Some people travel across oceans to seek warm, healing waters in spas or coastal resorts. It turns out that whales are likely making their annual migrations for much the same […]
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[:es]From ‘living’ cement to medicine-delivering biofilms, biologists remake the material world[:]

[:es]The bricks in Wil Srubar’s lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder, aren’t just alive, they’re reproducing. They are churned out by bacteria that convert sand, nutrients, and other feedstocks […]
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[:es]Is an Aboriginal tale of an ancient volcano the oldest story ever told?[:]

[:es]Long ago, four giant beings arrived in southeast Australia. Three strode out to other parts of the continent, but one crouched in place. His body transformed into a volcano called […]
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[:es]Scientists are racing to model the next moves of a coronavirus that’s still hard to predict[:]

[:es]Beyond China itself, Thailand is the country that most likely will have people who arrive at one of its airports with an infection by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that has […]
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[:es]Is this the original board game of death?[:]

[:es]Ancient Egyptians took their board games seriously. The backgammonlike senet started out as a mere pastime, but over nearly 2 millennia it evolved into a game with deep links to […]
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[:es]Could a habitable planet orbit a black hole?[:]

[:es]Supermassive black holes have a reputation for consuming everything in their path, from gas clouds to entire solar systems. So is there any way aliens could live on a world […]
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[:es]Mining coronavirus genomes for clues to the outbreak’s origins[:]

[:es]attaaaggtt tataccttcc caggtaacaa accaaccaac tttcgatctc ttgtagatct … That string of apparent gibberish is anything but: It’s a snippet of a DNA sequence from the viral pathogen, dubbed 2019 novel coronavirus […]
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[:es]Black holes caught in the act of swallowing stars[:]

[:es]At the center of nearly every galaxy lies a monster, a giant black hole millions or even billions of times heavier than the Sun. Some, known as quasars or active […]
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[:es]Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally[:]

[:es]As confirmed cases of a novel virus surge around the world with worrisome speed, all eyes have so far focused on a seafood market in Wuhan, China, as the origin […]