Ciencia en los medios
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Next Generation: Fat-Targeted Gene Knockdown
A small peptide helps a silencing construct home in on the adipocytes of obese mice.
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Our Understanding of Giraffes Does Not Measure Up
To giraffe researchers, the paradox of this keystone African herbivore goes beyond questions of its camouflaging coat. Giraffes may be popular, they said — a staple of zoos, corporate logos […]
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Lightbulb moment for Nobel physicists: prize awarded for inventing blue LEDs
One laureate paid just $200 for invention that allows energy-efficient lighting and could save quarter of world’s electricity
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Dime de dónde eres y te diré qué te descargas
Existen patrones de comportamiento predecibles entre los usuarios que comparten archivos a través del protocolo BitTorrent: quienes bajan películas o música siempre bajan películas o música. Además, la riqueza de […]
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Las diferencias entre un buen y un mal estudiante están en los genes
Las buenas notas de un chaval de 16 años dependen de un complejo cóctel de factores genéticos y ambientales del que la ciencia aún tardará (si es que lo consigue) […]
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A Sense of Where You Are
In 1988, two determined psychology students sat in the office of an internationally renowned neuroscientist in Oslo and explained to him why they had to study with him. Unfortunately, the […]
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Investigan por primera vez la sinestesia acromática
La sinestesia grafema-color es un fenómeno complejo que ocurre cuando las letras, palabras o números evocan colores. Si lo que se evoca es el blanco, el negro o el gris […]
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Why Coconuts Could Be The Hydrogen Storage Material Of The Future
Coconut flesh contains secret ingredients that dramatically enhance its ability to store hydrogen, say material scientists.
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In a First, Commercial Coal Plant Buries Its CO2
A coal plant that opened today in Saskatchewan captures and buries the carbon dioxide it emits—with two significant caveats: it still emits as much carbon dioxide as a natural gas […]