Science
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[:es]How taming cows and horses sparked inequality across the ancient world[:]
[:es]Cattle and other livestock may have boosted inequality in Old World societies, including ancient Egypt[:]
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[:es]This fabric can give you your own personal climate-control system[:]
[:es]Few things may be tackier than reversible garments, but a team of engineers has invented a new fabric that could be—literally—both the hottest and the coolest thing in clothing. The […]
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[:es]Hormones don’t sway women’s sexual preferences[:]
[:es]The popular claim that women in their fertile days prefer men with more masculine faces may not be true. That’s the conclusion of the largest study to analyze how sex […]
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[:es]3D printing doubles the strength of stainless steel[:]
[:es]3D printing has taken the world by storm, but it currently works best with plastic and porous steel—materials too weak for hard-core applications. Now, researchers have come up with a […]
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[:es]New test of electron’s roundness could help explain universe’s matter/antimatter imbalance[:]
[:es]When it comes to measuring how round the electron is, physicists hate uncertainty. Much depends on the most precise measurement possible, including a potential answer to a major scientific puzzle: […]
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[:es]Modern humans lost DNA when they left Africa—but mating with Neandertals brought some back[:]
[:es]When Neandertals mated with modern humans, they shared more than an intimate moment and their own DNA. They also gave back thousands of ancient African gene variants that Eurasians had […]
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[:es]Can the Museum of the Bible overcome the sins of the past?[:]
[:es]Next month, a lavish museum will open its doors in Washington D.C., just a stone’s throw from the Smithsonian castle and the U.S. Capitol. Flanking its doors are 12-meter-tall bronze […]
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[:es]Explosions on the sun’s surface explain its extremely hot outermost layers[:]
[:es]This summer’s total solar eclipse revealed rare views of the sun’s corona, its outermost layers of plasma millions of degrees in temperature. But the solar corona has long baffled scientists: […]
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[:es]Waves that drive global weather patterns finally explained, thanks to inspiration from bagel-shaped quantum matter[:]
[:es]They are about as far apart as two things in science can be: a type of ocean wave that helps drive the El Niño climate cycle, and quantum materials that, […]