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[:es]Medicinal knowledge vanishes as Indigenous languages die[:]

Language loss threatens ancient knowledge of healing plants in many regions, study shows
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[:es]Can biofuels really fly?[:]

To get the carbon out of air travel, industry and government are trying, again, to turn farm and food waste into fuel
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[:es]Why the monkeypox outbreak is mostly affecting men who have sex with men[:]

The virus did not spread well between people in the past but may have found a new niche in tightly connected sexual networks
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[:es]Murders of women worldwide remain vastly undercounted[:]

Activists are now filling in the gaps
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[:es]Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else[:]

Unless Europe’s Large Hadron Collider coughs up a surprise, the field of particle physics may wheeze to its end
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[:es]How the wild jungle fowl became the chicken[:]

New studies propose surprisingly late date, and link to rice growing, for chicken domestication
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[:es]What did the ancient Maya see in the stars? Their descendants team up with scientists to find out[:]

The historic Maya oriented their lives by the heavens. Today, their descendants and Western scholars team up to understand their sophisticated astronomy
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[:es]Early dogs may have doubled in size to protect livestock[:]

Archaeological evidence suggests domestic canines bulked up between 8000 and 2000 years ago
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[:es]Ancient Maya tooth sealant glued gemstones in place—and may have prevented tooth decay[:]

Organic adhesives could have warded off infections