The New York Times

[:eu]The brain reshapes itself for years after adolescence, scientists have found, raising questions about when an adult is mature in the legal sense.[:]

[:eu]The bears that come here are climate refugees, on land because the sea ice they rely on for hunting seals is receding.[:]

[:eu]In the first attempt to reverse aging by reprogramming the genome, they have rejuvenated the organs of mice and lengthened their life spans by 30 percent. The technique, which requires genetic engineering, cannot be applied directly to people, but the achievement points toward better understanding of human aging and the possibility of rejuvenating human tissues…

[:eu]Social scientists bear glad tidings for the holiday season. After extensively observing how people respond to gifts, they have advice for shoppers: You don’t have to try so hard.[:]

[:eu]Set your meetings, phone calls and emails aside, at least for the next several minutes. That’s because today you’re a bee.[:]

[:es]Now, after 20 years with a budget of $8.7 billion, the Webb telescope is on track and on budget to be launched in October 2018 and sent a million miles from Earth, NASA says.[:]

[:es]Two studies published on Wednesday by the journal Nature show how the surface of Pluto might have been scarred long ago when a smaller body slammed into it. The resulting crater then partially filled with denser nitrogen ice and possibly a bulge of liquid water from an underground ocean, and the additional mass caused Pluto…

[:eu]Bonobos get farsighted as they age, just as humans do. But the bonobos are trying to get at the lice in each other’s hair, not read the fine print.[:]

[:en]An international consortium of astronomers whose plan to erect a giant telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii has been stalled by protests and legal challenges said on Monday that it would build the telescope in the Canary Islands if it was blocked in Hawaii.[:]