Science
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[:es]‘Wood wide web’—the underground network of microbes that connects trees—mapped for first time[:]
[:es]Trees, from the mighty redwoods to slender dogwoods, would be nothing without their microbial sidekicks. Millions of species of fungi and bacteria swap nutrients between soil and the roots of […]
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[:es]Viruses genetically engineered to kill bacteria rescue girl with antibiotic-resistant infection[:]
[:es]One week after Helen Spencer’s 15-year-old cystic fibrosis patient had a double lung transplant in September 2017, the incision wound turned bright red. For half her life, Isabelle Carnell had […]
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[:es]Theorist calculates the incalculable siren song of merging black holes[:]
[:es]Just a month into a renewed observing campaign with a trio of detectors, physicists today announced they have spotted more gravitational waves—fleeting ripples in space set off when two massive […]
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[:es]Neanderthals may have trapped golden eagles 130,000 years ago[:]
[:es]The golden eagle has been hunted and revered by human cultures for thousands of years. Yet this may not have been a uniquely human devotion—Neanderthals, too, may have targeted these […]
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[:es]Emperor penguins flee unsteady ice after ‘unprecedented’ failure to breed[:]
[:es]Antarctica’s charismatic emperor penguins are thought to be particularly vulnerable to climate change, because warming waters are melting the sea ice where they live and breed. Now, the penguins have […]
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[:es]Global warming may boost economic inequality[:]
[:es]Over the past half-century, climate change has been blamed for heat waves, flooding, and rising seas. Now, researchers say warmer temperatures are widening the chasm separating richer and poorer countries, […]
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[:es]New climate models predict a warming surge[:]
[:es]For nearly 40 years, the massive computer models used to simulate global climate have delivered a fairly consistent picture of how fast human carbon emissions might warm the world. But […]
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[:es]Believe in Atlantis? These archaeologists want to win you back to science[:]
[:es]In February, the popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience referred to an idea made famous by some books and TV shows: that an image of the Mayan King K’inich Janaab’ […]
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[:es]Ancient ‘Snowball Earth’ thawed out in a flash[:]
[:es]More than half a billion years ago, our planet was a giant snowball hurtling through space. Glaciers blanketed the globe all the way to the equator in one of the […]