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[:es]Minimuscles let amputees control a robot hand with their minds[:]

Building a beautiful robotic hand is one thing. Getting it to do your bidding is another. For all the hand-shaped prostheses designed to bend each intricate joint on cue, there’s […]
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[:es]Was this life’s first meal?[:]

Studies of the origin of life are replete with paradoxes. Take this doozy: Every known organism on Earth uses a suite of proteins—and the DNA that helps build it—to construct […]
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[:es]New sense discovered in dog noses: The ability to detect heat[:]

Dogs’ noses just got a bit more amazing. Not only are they up to 100 million times more sensitive than ours, they can sense weak thermal radiation—the body heat of […]
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[:es]The coronavirus seems unstoppable. What should the world do now?[:]

The global march of COVID-19 is beginning to look unstoppable. In just the past week, a countrywide outbreak surfaced in Iran, spawning additional cases in Iraq, Oman, and Bahrain. Italy […]
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[:es]Scientists say they’ve cracked the mystery of why whales migrate—and it’s all about healthy skin[:]

Some people travel across oceans to seek warm, healing waters in spas or coastal resorts. It turns out that whales are likely making their annual migrations for much the same […]
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[:es]From ‘living’ cement to medicine-delivering biofilms, biologists remake the material world[:]

The bricks in Wil Srubar’s lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder, aren’t just alive, they’re reproducing. They are churned out by bacteria that convert sand, nutrients, and other feedstocks […]
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[:es]Is an Aboriginal tale of an ancient volcano the oldest story ever told?[:]

Long ago, four giant beings arrived in southeast Australia. Three strode out to other parts of the continent, but one crouched in place. His body transformed into a volcano called […]
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[:es]Scientists are racing to model the next moves of a coronavirus that’s still hard to predict[:]

Beyond China itself, Thailand is the country that most likely will have people who arrive at one of its airports with an infection by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that has […]
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[:es]Is this the original board game of death?[:]

Ancient Egyptians took their board games seriously. The backgammonlike senet started out as a mere pastime, but over nearly 2 millennia it evolved into a game with deep links to […]