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[:es]Rocket-launching drone ready to take satellites into orbit[:]

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the RAVN-X—a rocket-launching drone designed to send small satellites to orbit without a pilot or a launchpad. Aerospace startup Aevum unveiled the first […]
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[:es]Researchers restore lost sight in mice, offering clues to reversing aging[:]

Do old and damaged cells remember what it was like to be young? That’s the suggestion of new study, in which scientists reprogrammed neurons in mouse eyes to make them […]
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[:es]‘The game has changed.’ AI triumphs at solving protein structures[:]

Artificial intelligence (AI) has solved one of biology’s grand challenges: predicting how proteins curl up from a linear chain of amino acids into 3D shapes that allow them to carry […]
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[:es]Elephants can lose two bathtubs full of water in a single day when it gets hot[:]

When the weather is warm, elephants can lose up to 10% of all the water in their bodies in a single day, according to a new study. That’s the equivalent […]
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[:es]To explain away dark matter, gravity would have to be really weird, cosmologists say[:]

Dark matter, the invisible stuff whose gravity is thought to hold galaxies together, may be the least satisfying concept in physics. But if you want to get rid of it, […]
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[:es]Seas are rising faster than ever[:]

Ask climate scientists how fast the world’s oceans are creeping upward, and many will say 3.2 millimeters per year—a figure enshrined in the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, […]
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[:es]Microbes’ mystery DNA helps defeat viruses—and has genome-editing potential[:]

Seven years ago, an understanding of nature inspired a revolutionary new technology, when researchers turned a defense system used by bacteria to thwart viruses into the gene-editing tool now known […]
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[:es]Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug candidate takes a beating from FDA advisers[:]

If the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to approve the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease in 17 years, it will have to do so against the overwhelming […]
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[:es]The Maya built the Western Hemisphere’s first water filtration system[:]

The Maya city of Tikal is famous for its soaring palaces and temples. But something far more humble kept Tikal functioning: its water filtration system, the earliest known of its […]