Science in the media
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El azúcar que toman los padres puede hacer obesos a sus descendientes
Un estudio realizado en moscas de la fruta apoya la hipótesis de que los hábitos de un individuo durane su vida pueden afectar a la salud de las generaciones posteriores
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‘The Imitation Game’ Sparks a New Wave of Code-Breakers
It involves hours staring at a piece of paper or screen. Scores of frustrated attempts, blind alleys, cruel false hopes and a very remote chance of success. Yet it is […]
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Who Owns the Biggest Biotech Discovery of the Century?
There’s a bitter fight over the patents for CRISPR, a breakthrough new form of DNA editing.
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Physics: Quantum computer quest
After a 30-year struggle to harness quantum weirdness for computing, physicists finally have their goal in reach.
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Smoking erases Y chromosomes
If cancer, heart disease, and emphysema weren’t bad enough, male smokers may have another thing to worry about: losing their Y chromosomes.
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La anguila eléctrica controla los movimientos de sus presas a distancia
Un estudio demuestra que las descargas de estos animales bloquean las neuronas motoras de sus presas, de modo que facilitan la captura.
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Retorno a la madre África
El mayor estudio de la variedad genómica subsahariana ilumina los orígenes y la compleja historia de mestizaje de la humanidad moderna
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Milk bottle-raiding birds pass on thieving ways to their flock
Great tits are opportunistic copycats. Entire populations can be found performing the same arbitrary behaviour simply because birds copy one another, following a fashion. And it’s this behaviour, reported in […]
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Astronomers solve mystery of the universe’s missing stars
For more than a decade scientists have been at a loss to explain why there are fewer stars than they predicted