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[:es]Europe is locking down a second time. But what is its long-term plan?[:]

Most countries are reacting without a long-term plan, simply trying to avoid the worst. Officials differ about the best way to bring the numbers down again, and how low a […]
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[:es]United Kingdom lights up its unusual fusion reactor[:]

The United Kingdom’s revamped fusion reactor, known as the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) Upgrade, powered up for the first time yesterday after a 7-year build. The £55 million device […]
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[:es]The universe teems with weird black holes, gravitational-wave hunters find[:]

Less than 5 years ago, physicists rocked the scientific world when they first spotted gravitational waves—fleeting ripples in space and time—set off when two gargantuan black holes billions of light-years […]
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[:es]Dogs and cats became family—and got their shot at heaven—after World War II[:]

In 1896, a grieving woman showed up at the office of her Manhattan veterinarian with an unusual request: Her dog had just died, and she wanted to give it a […]
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[:es]Cryo–electron microscopy breaks the atomic resolution barrier at last[:]

If you want to map the tiniest parts of a protein, you only have a few options: You can coax millions of individual protein molecules to align into crystals and […]
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[:es]Strict biodiversity laws prevent Indian scientists from sharing new microbes with the world[:]

Praveen Rahi spent the better part of the past 3 years identifying and describing a new species of a nitrogen-fixing bacteria he discovered on peas cultivated in the mountains of […]
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[:es]Double whammy doomed Madagascar’s giant birds and mammals[:]

Madagascar was once home to towering elephant birds, giant tortoises, and even giant lemurs. Today no animal heavier than a car tire exists, and researchers have long debated whether humans […]
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[:es]Is gene therapy ready to treat some forms of autism?[:]

As a baby, Quincy appeared healthy and happy, smiling at an early age and giggling frequently. But during her first few months of life, she missed many developmental milestones: At […]
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[:es]Starlink already threatens optical astronomy. Now, radio astronomers are worried[:]

The 197 radio astronomy dishes of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in South Africa will sit within a radio-quiet zone the size of Pennsylvania where even a cellphone is forbidden, […]