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[:es]Mongoose mothers help their colonies thrive—by forgetting which pups are theirs[:]

Pregnant mongooses in a colony all give birth on the same night, a phenomenon that makes it harder for mothers to know which pups are their own. But that confusion […]
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[:es] The Mystery Formation of Extremely Rich Gold Veins Might Finally Be Solved [:]

Gold, for all its wonderful uses, isn’t hugely abundant in Earth’s upper layers. For each ton of crust material, there’s an estimated just 0.004 grams of the precious metal. Yet […]
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[:es]More Accurate Clocks Unleash More Disorder in The Universe[:]

What’s the price of an accurate clock? Entropy, a new study has revealed.
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[:es]No shared language? No problem! People across cultures understand clues from ‘vocal charades’[:]

One of the hardest questions for evolutionary linguists is why humans speak at all. When people don’t share a language, they quickly resort to using their hands, rather than their […]
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[:es]Landmark study casts doubt on controversial theory linking melting Arctic to severe winter weather[:]

Every time severe winter weather strikes the United States or Europe, reporters are fond of saying that global warming may be to blame. The paradox goes like this: As Arctic […]
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[:es]Neanderthals carb loaded, helping grow their big brains [:]

Here’s another blow to the popular image of Neanderthals as brutish meat eaters: A new study of bacteria collected from Neanderthal teeth shows that our close cousins ate so many […]
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[:es]Further evidence supports controversial claim that SARS-CoV-2 genes can integrate with human DNA[:]

A team of prominent scientists has doubled down on its controversial hypothesis that genetic bits of the pandemic coronavirus can integrate into our chromosomes and stick around long after the […]
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[:es]Can scientists help insects survive their fatal attraction to light at night?[:]

Each summer, on bridges across the world, mayfly massacres occur. First, warm weather prompts the transformation of the insects’ aquatic larvae. Within hours, the short-lived, flying adults pop out of […]
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[:es]Gut microbiota through an evolutionary lens[:]

Complex tripartite human-microbiota-environment interactions present an unsolved puzzle for human health: When is it better for the gut microbiota to track versus resist environmental change?