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[:es]Lip-reading artificial intelligence could help the deaf—or spies[:]

For millions who can’t hear, lip reading offers a window into conversations that would be lost without it. But the practice is hard—and the results are often inaccurate. Now, researchers […]
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[:es]Ghostly particle caught in polar ice ushers in new way to look at the universe[:]

If astronomers are right, a ghostly particle that lit up an instrumented swathe of ice beneath the South Pole on 22 September last year was a messenger from a distant […]
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[:es]A fence built to keep out wild dogs has dramatically altered the Australian landscape[:]

Southern Australia’s Strzelecki Desert is home to two very different landscapes: an area of 10-meter-high sand dunes with patches of dense woody shrubs, and—just a few kilometers away—shorter and flatter […]
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[:es] The momentous transition to multicellular life may not have been so hard after all[:]

Billions of years ago, life crossed a threshold. Single cells started to band together, and a world of formless, unicellular life was on course to evolve into the riot of […]
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[:es]Male scientists are far more likely to be referred to by their last names, impacting status and awards[:]

Darwin, Newton, Einstein. When scientists reach a certain level of fame, first names need not apply. That’s especially true if the scientist is a man, according to a new study. […]
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[:es]Neanderthal ‘minibrains’ grown in dish[:]

A recent marriage of three hot fields—ancient DNA, the genome editor CRISPR, and “organoids” built from stem cells—offers a provocative, if very preliminary, new option. At least two research teams […]
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[:es]Africa’s strangest trees are stranger than thought—and they’re dying mysteriously[:]

Africa’s baobab tree looks like something from a Dr. Seuss book. When young, the species (Adansonia digitata) is single-stemmed, branchless, and sports fruit that resembles giant sausages. Now, researchers report […]
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[:es]This saltwater trout evolved to live in freshwater—in just 100 years[:]

Although we tend to think of evolution as happening over thousands, if not millions, of years, critical changes can take little more than a century. That’s what happened with a […]
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[:es]The Great Barrier Reef has had five near-death experiences in the past 30,000 years[:]

Thirteen thousand years ago, as the last ice age ended, entire stretches of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef perished. Rising sea levels blanketed the world’s largest collection of corals with sediment […]