The New York Times
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[:en]If Diamonds Are Forever, Your Data Could Be, Too[:]
[:en]A new paper suggests that a flawed diamond could be used to store significantly more data than a DVD.[:]
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[:en]Metaphorically Speaking, Men Are Expected to be Struck by Genius, Women to Nurture It[:]
[:en]We find an idea more or less exceptional depending on the metaphors used to describe it. And not just that: Those metaphors had different effects depending on the gender of […]
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[:es]A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World[:]
[:es]Modern humans evolved in Africa roughly 200,000 years ago. But how did our species go on to populate the rest of the globe? The question, one of the biggest in […]
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[:es]A Lesson of Tesla Crashes? Computer Vision Can’t Do It All Yet[:]
[:es]Jitendra Malik, a researcher in computer vision for three decades, doesn’t own a Tesla, but he has advice for people who do. “Knowing what I know about computer vision, I […]
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NASA Aims at an Asteroid Holding Clues to the Solar System’s Roots
For the next two years, NASA’s latest robotic spacecraft will be chasing down an asteroid near Earth in the hopes of scooping up some of the most primordial bits of […]
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Japan’s $320 Million Gamble at Fukushima: An Underground Ice Wall
An underground wall of frozen dirt 100 feet deep and nearly a mile in length, intended to solve a runaway water crisis threatening the devastated Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station […]
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Seeing Through to a Mouse’s Nervous System
Neuroscientists have developed a way to turn an entire mouse, including its muscles and internal organs, transparent while illuminating the nerve paths that run throughout its body.
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From Fins Into Hands: Scientists Discover a Deep Evolutionary Link
Our hands share a deep evolutionary connection not only to bat wings or horse hooves, but also to fish fins.
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Vikings Possibly Spread Smooth-Riding Horses Around the World
Most horses can walk, trot, canter and gallop, but only certain breeds can amble. In a study published on Monday in Current Biology, scientists have proposed a hypothesis for how […]