Science
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[:en]A gory tale behind the origin of ‘Halloween genes’[:]
[:en]During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens and the shades of evening […]
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[:en]Are old cells breaking our hearts?[:]
[:en]Run-down cells, known as senescent cells, may make us old. A new study of mice suggests that they also drive another scourge of our advancing years—atherosclerosis, the buildup of fatty […]
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[:es] Objects beyond Neptune provide fresh evidence for Planet Nine[:]
[:es]In January, astronomers announced evidence for Planet Nine, a new giant planet, based on the way it would shepherd six icy worlds into clustered orbits on the other side of […]
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[:es]Early cave art reveals elusive ‘Higgs bison’[:]
[:es]Not only did a separate species appear between 13,000 and 17,000 years ago, but that it was the hybrid offspring of the steppe bison—whose descendants include today’s American bison—and another […]
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[:es]Dramatic twists could upend patent battle over CRISPR genome-editing method[:]
[:es]The 9-month-old patent battle over CRISPR, a novel genome-editing tool that could have immense commercial value, has taken two surprising twists. Last week, attorneys for the Broad Institute in Cambridge, […]
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[:es]Google’s new translation software is powered by brainlike artificial intelligence[:]
[:es]The new system, a deep learning model known as neural machine translation, effectively trains itself—and reduces translation errors by up to 87%. [:]
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[:es]Five surprising ways AI could be a part of our lives by 2030[:]
[:es]Defined simply, a computer with AI is able to respond to its environment by learning on its own—without humans providing specific instructions. A new report from Stanford University in Palo […]
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Industrial air pollution leaves magnetic waste in the brain
If you live in an urban environment, chances are you’ve got nanomagnets on the brain—literally. New research suggests that most magnetite found in the human brain, a magnetic iron oxide […]
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The world may soon run out of drugs to treat gonorrhea
It’s another sign that an era of untreatable bacterial infections is inching closer. The World Health Organization (WHO) released new guidelines for treating gonorrhea that reflect the sobering reality that […]