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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 it “the China virus”—but he never presented evidence, and few in the scientific community took him seriously. In fact, early in the pandemic, a group…
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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 horses roamed. In the cave’s main gallery, a teenage girl lost a tooth, perhaps while gnawing on bison that her father or his kin had…
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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, 15 men die. In the United States, a gender gap is emerging in vaccination rates, with women ahead of men by 6 percentage points, according…
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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 Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), which advises European governments on research priorities, added the €1.9 billion observatory, called the Einstein Telescope, to a road…
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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 enough energy to propel the car hundreds of kilometers, again and again, without tailpipe emissions. But when the battery comes to the end of its…