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[:es]Mysterious ancient rock art may have been made with beeswax[:]

This 500-year-old rock art is among the rarest in the world. Found at a site called Yilbilinji near northern Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria—and depicting a humanlike figure holding a boomerang […]
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[:es]Hungry bumble bees make plants flower early by cutting holes in their leaves[:]

When bumble bee queens emerge from hibernation, they need to gather pollen and nectar to start their new colonies. If they wake up too soon, there may not be enough […]
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[:es]Cold War satellites inadvertently tracked species declines[:]

When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit in 1957, the United States responded with its own spy satellites. The espionage program, known as Corona, sought to locate Soviet missile […]
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[:es]How Venus flytraps evolved their taste for meat[:]

How does a plant develop a taste for flesh? In the play Little Shop of Horrors, all it takes is a drop of human blood. But in real life, it […]
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[:es]Can nuclear fallout make it rain?[:]

Radioactive fallout is rarely a good thing. But new research suggests charged particles emitted from Cold War–era nuclear tests may have boosted rainfall thousands of kilometers away from the testing […]
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[:es]New solar panels suck water from air to cool themselves down[:]

Like humans, solar panels don’t work well when overheated. Now, researchers have found a way to make them “sweat”—allowing them to cool themselves and increase their power output.
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[:es]Ancient DNA reveals staying power of early people of the Andes[:]

Some of the world’s more famous and closely examined archaeological sites pepper the hillsides of the Central Andes, documenting an invention of farming and the rise and fall of powerful […]
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[:es]Ants store long- and short-term memories on different sides of their brains[:]

The left and right sides of our brains store different kinds of memories: The left side specializes in verbal information, for example, while the right side specializes in visual information. […]
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[:es]Three men were buried in Mexico 500 years ago. DNA and bones reveal their stories of enslavement[:]

In the late 1980s, workers excavating a new subway line in downtown Mexico City stumbled upon a long-lost cemetery. Documents showed it had once been connected to a colonial hospital […]