La ciencia en los medios
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Why Not: A Sorting Algorithm Based on the Fake-Theory of Intelligent Design
Around 2013, esoteric programming language enthusiast and comics writer named David Morgan-Mar unveiled his Intelligent Design Sort, an algorithm that doesn’t actually sort information and instead just says that it must already be sorted according to the will of a great unknowable being.
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La controvertida y oscura historia de las armas biológicas
Un análisis de todas las investigaciones que se han realizado hasta la fecha muestra los vacíos de información que aún existen sobre este controvertido asunto y lo infrecuentes que son este tipo de ataques.
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Las grandes misiones espaciales que nos esperan en 2016
SpaceX estrena el Falcon Heavy, Rusia inaugura Vostochny, la NASA lanza una sonda a un cometa y Rosetta termina su misión. Nos espera un año movido lejos de la Tierra.
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Seeking the Gears of Our Inner Clock
Neuroscientists have struggled to understand exactly how the circadian clock affects our minds. After all, researchers can’t simply pop open a subject’s skull and monitor his brain cells over the course of each day. A few years ago, Dr. Akil and her colleagues came up with an idea for the next best thing.
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Hint of new boson at LHC sparks flood of papers
Almost 100 manuscripts have appeared on the preprint server in the wake of last week’s announcement.
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Solving the mystery of dog domestication
2016 may be the year we finally figure out where dogs came from. Scientists have debated where and when our canine pals arose for decades, and now they may be close to an answer.
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Y con CRISPR llegó la revolución
El sistema de edición genética ha abierto un enorme campo en la investigación científica
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Sex, lies and arsenic: how the ‘king of poisons’ lost its crown
Kate Griffin, author of the Kitty Peck novels set in the criminal underworld of Victorian London, examines the nineteenth century origins of toxicology
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Hope Rekindled for Perplexing Proof
Three years ago, a solitary mathematician released an impenetrable proof of the famous abc conjecture. At a recent conference dedicated to the work, optimism mixed with bafflement.
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