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[:eu]Reprogramar células cerebrales para tratar eficazmente el párkinson[:]

[:eu]El párkinson afecta a una de cada 1.000 personas en todo el mundo. A pesar de ser la segunda patología neurodegenerativa en mayores, los tratamientos siguen sin dar buenos resultados. […]
The New Yorker

[:eu]The despair of learning that experience no longer matters[:]

[:eu]Two Princeton economists suggest that rising white-working-class mortality might be related to another phenomenon: people are aging but aren’t getting what they think they’ve earned.[:]
Teknautas

[:eu]El ‘cerebro’ de Google reta ahora a los mejores jugadores de Go en China… a la vez[:]

[:eu]La inteligencia artificial de Google se enfrentará a un equipo de cinco expertos e incluso a otras inteligencias artificiales llegadas desde el lejano oriente[:]
The New York Times

[:eu]A Genetic Oddity May Give Octopuses and Squids Their Smarts[:]

[:eu]In the journal Cell on Thursday, the scientists reported that octopuses, squid and cuttlefish make extensive use of RNA editing, a genetic process thought to have little functional significance in […]
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[:eu]Test: pon a prueba tu visión periférica[:]

[:eu]Un trabajo con voluntarios muestra que la capacidad de distinguir objetos mediante la visión periférica varía significativamente entre individuos. Todos tenemos zonas de sombra en nuestro campo visual en las […]
Science

[:eu]Unique Canadian ice core collection suffers catastrophic meltdown[:]

[:eu]A precious collection of ice cores from the Canadian Arctic has suffered a catastrophic meltdown. A freezer failure at a cold storage facility in Edmonton run by the University of […]
The Guardian

[:eu]Could a new approach to kill cancer at nanoscale work?[:]

[:eu]A laser weapons physicist has come up with a novel treatment for the disease – blowing up the cancer cells in infinitely small explosions[:]
The Economist

[:eu]Computer security is broken from top to bottom[:]

[:eu]As the consequences pile up, things are starting to improve[:]
Cosmos

[:eu]When giants warped the universe[:]

[:eu]The discovery that massive black holes existed billions of years earlier than thought possible is forcing a major rethink about galactic origins.[:]