Science
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![[:es]Lost at sea[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/06/clownfish-online_v1.jpg)
[:es]Lost at sea[:]
[:es]A growing sensory smog threatens the ability of fish to communicate, navigate, and survive[:]
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![[:es]Bejesus! A cockamamie AI can predict which craptacular words you’ll find funny[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/06/main_16x9_10.jpg)
[:es]Bejesus! A cockamamie AI can predict which craptacular words you’ll find funny[:]
[:es]Robots might not yet make great standup comedians, but computers are learning to predict what we’ll find funny, according to a study presented here last week at the International Conference […]
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![[:es]Water on Europa—with a Pinch of Salt[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/06/F9571C44-9516-46A8-8C9A9B1E78FAF40E_source.jpg)
[:es]Water on Europa—with a Pinch of Salt[:]
[:es]Much like Earth’s seas, the subsurface ocean of this icy moon of Jupiter contains sodium chloride, the main ingredient of table salt[:]
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![[:es]Twice as many plants have gone extinct than birds, mammals, and amphibians combined[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/06/plants_16x9.jpg)
[:es]Twice as many plants have gone extinct than birds, mammals, and amphibians combined[:]
[:es]When scientists talk about recent extinctions, birds and mammals get most of the attention. But the first global analysis of its kind finds that twice as many plants have disappeared […]
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![[:es]Ancient molecules reveal surprising details on origins of ‘bizarre’ sloths[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/06/sloth_16x9.jpg)
[:es]Ancient molecules reveal surprising details on origins of ‘bizarre’ sloths[:]
[:es]From elephant-size animals that browsed North American grasslands to moose-size swimmers that plied the Pacific coast of South America, sloths have roamed Earth for more than 50 million years. Yet […]
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![[:es]Talk to the hand. Scientists try to debunk idea that finger length can reveal personality and health[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/06/fingers_digi.jpg)
[:es]Talk to the hand. Scientists try to debunk idea that finger length can reveal personality and health[:]
[:es]If papers published in the past 6 months are right, a single number is enough to show whether people are likely to suffer a premature heart attack, land first authorship […]
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![[:es]Gut bacteria may contribute to autism symptoms, mouse study finds[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/06/mice_16x9.jpg)
[:es]Gut bacteria may contribute to autism symptoms, mouse study finds[:]
[:es]Genes are a powerful driver of risk for autism, but some researchers suspect another factor is also at play: the set of bacteria that inhabits the gut. That idea has […]
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![[:es]Scientists tackle a burning question: When will our quiet sun turn violent?[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/05/sunmaximum-1280x720.jpg)
[:es]Scientists tackle a burning question: When will our quiet sun turn violent?[:]
[:es]For all of February the sun is nearly spotless, a smooth circle filled in with a goldenrod crayon. It has been more than a decade since it was so lacking […]
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![[:es]A solution to psychology’s reproducibility problem just failed its first test[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/05/ca_0531Preregistration_online.jpg)
[:es]A solution to psychology’s reproducibility problem just failed its first test[:]
[:es]Behavior change is difficult—just ask any psychologist. A new study shows behavior change among psychologists is no different. Efforts to improve the robustness of research by asking psychologists to state […]
