Science in the media
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Where’s the proof in science? There is none
What do we actually mean by research and how does it help inform our understanding of things? Those people looking for proof to come from any research in science will […]
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Climate change drove mastodons to the brink, humans pushed them over
Climate change played a pivotal role in the extinction of mastodons in North America, new radiocarbon dating of fossils has revealed – though hunting by people may have been the […]
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Saved: How addicts gained the power to reverse overdoses
Naloxone can reverse an otherwise fatal heroin overdose within minutes. Carrie Arnold meets the doctors who put this remarkable drug in the hands of the police, families and addicts—and saved thousands […]
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El tiempo se agota
El cielo de Pekín puede ser azul. Eso es lo que acaban de descubrir los habitantes de la capital china. Y todo gracias al decidido plan que emprendieron las autoridades […]
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Las matemáticas revelan que el tratamiento simultáneo contra el VIH y la hepatitis C aumenta su éxito
Un investigador español ha colaborado en un análisis matemático, publicado recientemente en la revistaScience Translational Medicine, que concluye que la terapia conjunta frente al VIH en pacientes que además tienen […]
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Is the Blood of Ebola Survivors an Effective Treatment?
When the World Health Organization recently named blood transfusions from Ebola survivors as its priority experimental therapy for the disease ravaging west Africa there was only one major problem: no data […]
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Respect long overdue: Earth’s most abundant mineral finally gets an official name
The mineral that makes up more than a third of our planet finally has a name, thanks to tiny samples found, ironically, in a meteorite that fell to Earth in […]
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This Cheetah Robot Is ‘A Ferrari In The Robotics World’
DARPA’s made all types of robots, from “Big Dog” to “Wild Cat,” and soft robots to flying robots. Their latest creepy invention is a robotic “cheetah” that can run, bound, […]
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Star Trek-like invisible shield protects Earth from ‘killer electrons’
Scientists detected an invisible shield roughly 7,200 miles above the Earth’s surface that is protecting us from harmful, super-fast electrons flying close to the speed of light. It may sound […]