Science
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[:es]Can you spot the duplicates? Critics say these photos of lionfish point to fraud[:]
[:es]How many fish really appear in the photo collage above? The answer bears on whether a study about lionfish social behavior, published in Biology Letters in 2014, was fabricated—and whether […]
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[:es]Quantum computer bests all conventional computers in first claim of ‘supremacy'[:]
[:es]The age of quantum computing may have begun not with a flashy press conference but with an internet leak. According to a paper posted briefly–and presumably mistakenly–to a lab site, […]
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[:es]Three billion North American birds have vanished since 1970, surveys show[:]
[:es]North America’s birds are disappearing from the skies at a rate that’s shocking even to ornithologists. Since the 1970s, the continent has lost 3 billion birds, nearly 30% of the […]
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[:es]Massive, blimplike experiment lowers weight limit on neutrino[:]
[:es]Physicists have set a new limit on the mass of nature’s lightest particle of matter. The neutrino can weigh no more than 1.1 electron volts (eV)—less than one-500,000th the mass […]
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[:es]This new device generates light from the darkness of space[:]
[:es]Solar panels are great for powering devices during the day. But they don’t work after the sun goes down. Now, a new technology that takes advantage of the cold darkness […]
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[:es]Geologists uncover history of lost continent buried beneath Europe[:]
[:es]Forget the legendary lost continent of Atlantis. Geologists have reconstructed, time slice by time slice, a nearly quarter-of-a-billion-year-long history of a vanished landmass that now lies submerged, not beneath an […]
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[:es]Humans haven’t just changed what dogs look like—we’ve altered the very structure of their brains[:]
[:es]In the thousands of years we’ve lived with dogs, we’ve transformed them from fearsome wolves to fluffy, tail-wagging Frisbee catchers that range in size from tiny pomeranians to towering great […]
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[:es]Ancient farmers irreversibly altered Earth’s face by 3000 years ago[:]
[:es]When we think of how humans have altered the planet, greenhouse gas warming, industrial pollution, and nuclear fallout usually spring to mind. But now, a new study invites us to […]
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[:es]To feed its 1.4 billion, China bets big on genome editing of crops[:]
[:es]If Gao Caixia were a farmer, she might be spread a little thin. Down the hall from her office at a branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) here […]