Science
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[:es]How safe is vaping? New human studies assess chronic harm to heart and lungs[:]
[:es]Reports of lung injuries from e-cigarettes splash across the news these days, but the nicotine-delivery devices are also spawning a quieter worry: whether users risk long-term health effects that may […]
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[:es]Mosquitoes armed with bacteria beat back dengue virus[:]
[:es]In a handful of cities around the world, mosquitoes have been armed with a microscopic weapon against disease. The bacterium Wolbachia pipientis blocks the insects’ ability to spread fearsome viruses […]
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[:es]Bangladesh could be the first to cultivate golden rice, genetically altered to fight blindness[:]
[:es]Soon. That has long been scientists’ answer when asked about the approval of golden rice, a genetically modified (GM) crop that could help prevent childhood blindness and deaths in the […]
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[:es]Drones reveal earthquake hazards hidden in the abyss[:]
[:es]There is no force on Earth quite like a subduction zone. Slips along these faults, found where plates of dense ocean crust dive beneath continents, cause the world’s most destructive […]
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[:es]How Enceladus got its water-spewing tiger stripes[:]
[:es]Researchers say they have solved a long-standing mystery about Saturn’s tiny, frozen moon Enceladus: why its south pole features long, water-spewing geysers known as tiger stripes. The study could also […]
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[:es]Many imperial Romans had roots in the Middle East, genetic history shows[:]
[:es]Two thousand years ago, the streets of Rome bustled with people from all over the ancient world. The empire’s trade routes stretched from North Africa to Asia, and new immigrants […]
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[:es]Colombian woman’s genes offer new clues to staving off Alzheimer’s[:]
[:es]In 2016, a 73-year-old woman from Medellín, Colombia, flew to Boston so researchers could scan her brain, analyze her blood, and pore over her genome. She carried a genetic mutation […]
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[:es]World’s oldest ice core could solve mystery of ‘flipped’ ice age cycles[:]
[:es]In some ways, drilling into Antarctica’s ancient ice is easier than interpreting it. Today, more than 2 years after presenting the discovery of the world’s oldest ice core, scientists have […]
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[:es]Experts question study claiming to pinpoint birthplace of all humans[:]
[:es]A new genetic study suggests all modern humans trace our ancestry to a single spot in southern Africa 200,000 years ago. But experts say the study, which analyzes the DNA […]