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[:es] ‘El tiempo está loco’ pero… ¿es por el cambio climático?[:]

Cada vez que ocurre un determinado acontecimiento meteorológico digno de un titular en los medios de comunicación, sea una tormenta devastadora, un tiempo anómalamente cálido o frío, una grave sequía, […]
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[:es]Bilingüismo: los idiomas, mejor revueltos[:]

Pocos consideran mala idea dominar más de un idioma. De hecho, las investigaciones apuntan a que el bilingüismo proporciona ventajas cognitivas, económicas y académicas.
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[:es]Don de lenguas[:]

La evolución nos dotó de la palabra a través de un proceso arriesgado para la supervivencia. Con tenues oscilaciones del aire se consigue intervenir en el cerebro de otra persona: […]
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[:es]The Standard Model of particle physics: The absolutely amazing theory of almost everything[:]

The Standard Model. What dull name for the most accurate scientific theory known to human beings.
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[:es]There’s a crisis in psychology – here’s how technology could provide a solution[:]

Psychologists obediently follow the same rules as other scientists. But their efforts haven’t yielded equivalent progress. In fact, in the last decade, psychologists have realised that some of their most […]
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[:es]Private companies are launching a new space race – here’s what to expect[:]

The space race between the USA and Russia started with a beep from the Sputnik satellite exactly 60 years ago (October 4, 1957) and ended with a handshake in space […]
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[:es]What Cassini’s mission revealed about Saturn’s known and newly discovered moons[:]

The Cassini space probe not only visited Saturn as part of its mission, it also revealed many of the planet’s moons in stunning detail and showed them to be interesting […]
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[:eu]Can we ever find Jesus’s DNA? I met the scientists who are trying to find out[:]

In 2010, Kasimir Popkonstantinov discovered what he believes are the bones of one of the most famous of all saints: John the Baptist. I was interested in what DNA analysis […]
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[:eu]New Zealand quake study reveals ruptures can be much bigger than we thought possible[:]

No one could have expected what was to hit New Zealand in 2016. The country is certainly no stranger to being shaken up by moving tectonic plates. Yet on November […]