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[:es]‘The game has changed.’ AI triumphs at solving protein structures[:]

[:es]Artificial intelligence (AI) has solved one of biology’s grand challenges: predicting how proteins curl up from a linear chain of amino acids into 3D shapes that allow them to carry […]
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[:es]Elephants can lose two bathtubs full of water in a single day when it gets hot[:]

[:es]When the weather is warm, elephants can lose up to 10% of all the water in their bodies in a single day, according to a new study. That’s the equivalent […]
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[:es]To explain away dark matter, gravity would have to be really weird, cosmologists say[:]

[:es]Dark matter, the invisible stuff whose gravity is thought to hold galaxies together, may be the least satisfying concept in physics. But if you want to get rid of it, […]
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[:es]Seas are rising faster than ever[:]

[:es]Ask climate scientists how fast the world’s oceans are creeping upward, and many will say 3.2 millimeters per year—a figure enshrined in the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, […]
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[:es]Microbes’ mystery DNA helps defeat viruses—and has genome-editing potential[:]

[:es]Seven years ago, an understanding of nature inspired a revolutionary new technology, when researchers turned a defense system used by bacteria to thwart viruses into the gene-editing tool now known […]
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[:es]Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug candidate takes a beating from FDA advisers[:]

[:es]If the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to approve the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease in 17 years, it will have to do so against the overwhelming […]
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[:es]The Maya built the Western Hemisphere’s first water filtration system[:]

[:es]The Maya city of Tikal is famous for its soaring palaces and temples. But something far more humble kept Tikal functioning: its water filtration system, the earliest known of its […]
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[:es]Europe is locking down a second time. But what is its long-term plan?[:]

[:es]Most countries are reacting without a long-term plan, simply trying to avoid the worst. Officials differ about the best way to bring the numbers down again, and how low a […]
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[:es]United Kingdom lights up its unusual fusion reactor[:]

[:es]The United Kingdom’s revamped fusion reactor, known as the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) Upgrade, powered up for the first time yesterday after a 7-year build. The £55 million device […]