La ciencia en los medios
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Does Lockheed Martin Really Have a Breakthrough Fusion Machine?
Lockheed Martin says it will have a small fusion reactor prototype in five years but offers no data.
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Turning Back the Brain’s Clock
The brain’s ability to make new neural connections can be restored in mice by blocking a protein that normally acts as a natural brake on neuroplasticity.
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Can you solve Martin Gardner’s best mathematical puzzles?
The maestro of recreational maths was born 100 years ago today. Here we celebrate his birthday with eight of his most celebrated puzzles
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Physicists see potential dark matter from the Sun
X-ray data hinting at axion particles draw interest and cautionary warnings.
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¿Cuál es el origen de los virus?
El origen evolutivo de los virus es un pequeño enigma para la ciencia, que ni siquiera se pone de acuerdo sobre si estas partículas son seres vivos o no. Para rematar el misterio, algunos de los más letales no entraron en contacto con el ser humano hasta hace apenas 50 años, como es el caso…
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When Those Who Know Won’t Share
There is no “I” in team, we are told. It’s important for workers to share information and collaborate. So why would employees deliberately hide knowledge from their colleagues? And yet they do, all the time.
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Los niños neandertales eran más bajos que los humanos actuales
Un equipo de científicos del Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana ha publicado un trabajo en la revista Journal of Human Evolution en el que se establece que los neandertales entre 3 y 6 años tenían menores tasas metabólicas basales y de crecimiento que los niños actuales.
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First act of sexual intercourse ‘was done sideways, square-dance style’
Fossils of 380m-year-old lake-dwelling placoderms point to bony, L-shaped male organ and female ‘cheese-grater’ genitals, scientists say
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U.S. Tornadoes Form in Swarms
Over the past couple of decades, tornado season has seen a lot more variation than it used to. Not only have some of the earliest and latest starts to the tornado season been recorded since the mid-1990s, but tornadoes are seeming to cluster together so that there are fewer days with tornadoes, but more tornadoes…
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