Science in the media
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The storyteller
With Rainer Weiss, gravitational wave hunter and likely Nobel laureate, there’s the story—and there’s the subtext.
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Blip flop as tantalising bump in Large Hadron Collider data disappears
Hopes for a new particle are dashed, as new data shows no trace of the anomaly, suggesting that its appearance was a statistical fluke
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Así suena el espacio: los extraños sonidos del Sistema Solar grabados por la NASA
En el Sistema Solar hay muchos lugares que cuentan con atmósfera u océano y que pueden ser bastante ruidosos. Apenas ahora estamos empezando a estudiar esos sonidos.
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How people with sports addiction are like drug addicts
‘Sports addiction’ sounds paradoxical, because we usually reserve the word ‘addiction’ for things that are recognisably bad for us, such as illicit-drug use or alcoholism, but there really is a […]
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Esto es lo que pasa cuando llamas por el móvil
Todos tenemos uno en el bolsillo y lo usamos a diario, pero pocos son conscientes del viaje que hace nuestra voz para llegar hasta el destinatario durante una llamada.
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Beautiful Waves of Giant Booty-Shaking Bees
Thousands of twerking insects move in unison to ward off predators and cool their colonies.
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In cancer, it’s back to the future as old treatments make cutting-edge ones more effective
Older cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation may make cutting-edge immunotherapy drugs effective in more patients.
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La vida surgió en aguas calientes y ricas en hierro
La comparación de 286.000 familias de genes actuales revela el genoma del primer ser vivo
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Space submarines will allow us to explore the seas of icy moons
An exciting idea being explored is developing submarines to send through space to the moons. Over the next two years, NASA is devoting half a million dollars to researching the […]