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[:es]The Marvelous Physics of Swarming Midges[:]

There’s more in that cloud of bugs than meets the eye.
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[:es]Vikings in paradise: Were the Norse the first to settle the Azores?[:]

Seafarers may have come and gone from lush archipelago more than 1000 years ago
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[:es]Scientists create their own GPS by spying on internet satellites[:]

Technique could one day improve location tracking for geologists and biologists
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[:es]Forget oil or water. In Iceland, well diggers seek to tap a volcano’s magma[:]

Probing magma directly could answer questions about composition and flow, and guide early warning systems
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[:es]Why many scientists say it’s unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a “lab leak”[:]

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the “lab leak” theory gained little traction. Sure, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested SARS-CoV-2 originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China—and called […]
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[:es]Ancient genomes offer rare glimpse of Neanderthal family groups[:]

More than 49,000 years ago, a family of Neanderthals set up camp in a cave high in Siberia’s Altai Mountains, overlooking a river valley where bison, red deer, and wild […]
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[:es]COVID-19 affects men and women differently. So why don’t clinical trials report gender data?[:]

COVID-19 doesn’t strike the sexes equally. Globally, for every 10 COVID-19 intensive care unit admissions among women, there are 18 for men; for every 10 women who die of COVID-19, […]
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[:es]European plan for gigantic new gravitational wave detector passes milestone[:]

It’s far from a done deal, but plans by European physicists to build a huge new gravitational wave observatory with a radical design received a boost this week. The European […]
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[:es]Millions of electric cars are coming. What happens to all the dead batteries?[:]

The battery pack of a Tesla Model S is a feat of intricate engineering. Thousands of cylindrical cells with components sourced from around the world transform lithium and electrons into […]