The New York Times

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[:es]The Secret History of Women in Coding[:]

[:es]Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?[:]
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[:es]Have Dark Forces Been Messing With the Cosmos?[:]

[:es]Axions? Phantom energy? Astrophysicists scramble to patch a hole in the universe, rewriting cosmic history in the process.[:]
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[:es]An Icy Superhighway Once Carried Glaciers From Namibia to Brazil[:]

[:es]Researchers matched up a jigsaw puzzle of ice that once flowed between two landmasses now separated by an ocean. [:]
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[:es]Birds of a Feather May Stick Together, but This Bird’s Foot Got Stuck in Amber[:]

[:es]Known as “Ugly Foot” or “Hobbit Foot,” researchers say the feathered specimen offers long-sought clues to the evolutionary path of birds.[:]
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[:es]The Patient Had Bone Cancer. The Diagnosis Arrived 240 Million Years Too Late.[:]

[:es]The fossil of an ancient animal teaches a sad lesson: Cancer has been around for a very, very long time. [:]
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[:es]What Lunar New Year Reveals About the World’s Calendars[:]

[:es]Rather than a scientific given, calendars say a lot about the history and cultural values of the societies that created them.[:]
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[:es]Seeking Superpowers in the Axolotl Genome[:]

[:es]The smiling salamanders can regrow most of their body parts, so researchers are building improved maps of their DNA.[:]
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[:es]And You Thought the Platypus Was Odd[:]

[:es]“When I first saw it, I just said ‘What?!’ and didn’t speak for a while,” said one of the researchers who studied the fossils of a prehistoric marine reptile.[:]
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[:es]What Happened to Earth’s Ancient Craters? Scientists Seek Clues on the Moon’s Pocked Surface[:]

[:es]The pace of space rocks pummeling Earth and the moon was relatively infrequent, but then doubled or tripled for unknown reasons, a new study finds.[:]