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[:es]After decades of effort, scientists are finally seeing black holes—or are they?[:]

The observations are already challenging astrophysicists’ assumptions about how black holes form and influence their surroundings. The smaller black holes detected by LIGO and, now, the European gravitational wave detector […]
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[:es]Galloping sea lions could inspire land-sea robots[:]

Some robots swim and dive through the water; others scurry across the land. Now, researchers want to build a machine that can do both. Their inspiration? The California sea lion.
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[:es]How voracious antlions engineer deadly sand traps[:]

You’d never know it by looking at the dragonflylike adult antlion, but its wingless larvae—fingernail-size eating machines with huge, poison-filled jaws—build deadly sand traps to capture tiny insects, including ants. […]
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[:es]Slowdown in plate tectonics may have led to Earth’s ice sheets[:]

In seafloor trenches around the world, slabs of old ocean crust fall in slow motion into the mantle, while fresh slabs are built at midocean ridges, where magma emerges at […]
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[:es]Watch an AI robot walk with a broken leg, thanks to a brain that never stops learning[:]

Watch the two simulated robots above, and you’ll notice a big difference. Even though both of their “brains” have evolved over 300 generations to allow them to walk, only one […]
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[:es]Shrine of decapitated heads suggests violence against foreigners in ancient Mexico[:]

Fifteen hundred years ago, Mexico’s Teotihuacan was a multicultural metropolis, enlivened by the diverse dress, foods, and dialects of its immigrant groups. Artifacts show the city of more than 100,000 […]
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[:es]Geoengineers inch closer to Sun-dimming balloon test[:]

For years, the controversial idea of solar geoengineering—lofting long-lived reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to block sunlight and diminish global warming—has been theoretical. It’s starting to get real: Today, […]
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[:es]Protein found in fingertip ‘capsules’ may be critical to our sense of touch[:]

Can you tell the difference between high – and low –thread-count sheets just by touching them? Thank usherin, a protein found in a mysterious structure in your fingertips. Usherin also […]
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[:es]Psychology’s replication crisis inspires ecologists to push for more reliable research[:]

Ecologists love to study blue tits. The birds readily nest in boxes in the wild and have striking plumage that seems ideal for testing ideas about the evolutionary point of […]