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[:es]Should pets be tested for coronavirus?[:]

Last Thursday, the first cat tested positive for the new coronavirus. The feline had diarrhea, vomiting, and difficulty breathing, and it had come down with COVID-19 about 1 week after […]
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[:es]How sick will the coronavirus make you? The answer may be in your genes[:]

COVID-19, caused by the new pandemic coronavirus, is strangely—and tragically—selective. Only some infected people get sick, and although most of the critically ill are elderly or have complicating problems such […]
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[:es]Mysterious chemical found in dead cat’s brain reopens debate over mercury poisoning disaster[:]

The city of Minamata, Japan, is dotted with monuments commemorating victims of an industrial mass poisoning decades ago. High in the hills, a small stone memorial honors other deaths—of cats […]
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[:es]Cellphone tracking could help stem the spread of coronavirus. Is privacy the price?[:]

“IT IS POSSIBLE TO STOP THE EPIDEMIC.” That’s the message splashed atop a website built by a University of Oxford team this week to share new research on the spread […]
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[:es]Why did nearly a million king penguins vanish without a trace?[:]

Where on Earth, wondered Henri Weimerskirch, were all the penguins? It was early 2017. Colleagues had sent the seabird ecologist aerial photos of Île aux Cochons, a barren volcanic island […]
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[:es]Newly discovered ‘magic methyl’ reaction could turbocharge the potency of some drugs[:]

For years, drug discovery chemists have struggled to streamline a process that can boost a drug’s potency up to 2000-fold: “magic methylation.” The reaction sweeps out single hydrogen atoms and […]
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[:es]3400-year-old ballgame court unearthed in mountains of Mexico[:]

In 2015, archaeologists Jeffrey Blomster and Víctor Salazar Chávez began excavating the Mexican site of Etlatongo, a 3400-year-old village in the mountains of Oaxaca. They chose a spot in the […]
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[:es]Ancient amber contains a cockroach—and a surprise[:]

Look closely at this piece of fossilized amber and you’ll spot something unusual: a cockroach trapped with its own feces (arrow).
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[:es]New drugs aim to disarm the immune system’s ‘atomic bomb’ cells[:]

Seeking a new treatment for people who have dangerous blockages in their coronary arteries, doctors in London are trying to disarm the body’s own defenders. The 90 patients in the […]