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[:es]More Accurate Clocks Unleash More Disorder in The Universe[:]

[:es]What’s the price of an accurate clock? Entropy, a new study has revealed.[:]
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[:es]No shared language? No problem! People across cultures understand clues from ‘vocal charades’[:]

[:es]One of the hardest questions for evolutionary linguists is why humans speak at all. When people don’t share a language, they quickly resort to using their hands, rather than their […]
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[:es]Landmark study casts doubt on controversial theory linking melting Arctic to severe winter weather[:]

[:es]Every time severe winter weather strikes the United States or Europe, reporters are fond of saying that global warming may be to blame. The paradox goes like this: As Arctic […]
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[:es]Neanderthals carb loaded, helping grow their big brains [:]

[:es]Here’s another blow to the popular image of Neanderthals as brutish meat eaters: A new study of bacteria collected from Neanderthal teeth shows that our close cousins ate so many […]
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[:es]Further evidence supports controversial claim that SARS-CoV-2 genes can integrate with human DNA[:]

[:es]A team of prominent scientists has doubled down on its controversial hypothesis that genetic bits of the pandemic coronavirus can integrate into our chromosomes and stick around long after the […]
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[:es]Can scientists help insects survive their fatal attraction to light at night?[:]

[:es]Each summer, on bridges across the world, mayfly massacres occur. First, warm weather prompts the transformation of the insects’ aquatic larvae. Within hours, the short-lived, flying adults pop out of […]
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[:es]Gut microbiota through an evolutionary lens[:]

[:es]Complex tripartite human-microbiota-environment interactions present an unsolved puzzle for human health: When is it better for the gut microbiota to track versus resist environmental change?[:]
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[:es]Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of lead nucleus suggests[:]

[:es]Say what you want about lead, it’s got a surprisingly thick skin—of neutrons, that is. In fact, the layer of neutrons on the outside of a lead nucleus is twice […]
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[:es]Malaria vaccine has striking early success after decades of disappointment[:]

[:es]After decades of disappointing results, recent findings have revived hopes for an effective vaccine against malaria, which kills some 400,000 people every year, most of them children. An experimental vaccine […]