Scientific American
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[:es]Mini Gravitational-Wave Detector Could Probe Dark Matter[:]
A miniature gravitational wave detector under development would measure higher-frequency waves than LIGO
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[:es]Scientists Identify Neurons That Help the Brain Forget[:]
In mice, cells in the hypothalamus clear out old memories while the animals sleep.
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[:es]Suicide Data Reveal New Intervention Spots, Such as Motels and Animal Shelters[:]
Patterns show places where people who intend to kill themselves go—and give health workers better chances to stop them
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[:es]Elite Athletes’ Gut Bacteria Give Rodent Runners a Boost[:]
The chemical these bacteria produce appears to enhance athleticism
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[:es]What Prevents Pluto’s Ocean from Freezing?[:]
Layers of ice-like gas hydrates may insulate frigid ocean worlds across the cosmos
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[:es]The Real Dino Killer: A One–Two Punch[:]
An asteroid impact and volcanoes acting together could have done in the beasts, new rock dates indicate
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[:es]Should We Kill Off Disease-Causing Pests? Not So Fast[:]
Eradicating harmful species may have unintended consequences
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[:es]Astronomers Traverse the Globe to Shadow “Lucky Stars”[:]
A surge in occultation science is allowing astronomers to study the sun’s asteroids, planets and moons like never before
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[:es]Have We Mismeasured the Universe?[:]
New studies of the oldest light and sound in the cosmos suggest novel physics—rather than systematic errors—could explain an unsolved scientific mystery