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Cosmos

[:es]Geophysicists propose new theory to explain origin of water[:]

The idea that Earth’s water came only from asteroids is a ‘blind spot’, researchers say.
The Guardian

[:es]What makes us? Nature or nurture? The DNA debate comes back to life [:]

An extraordinary new documentary about identical triplets who were separated at birth has reignited the debate over the dominance of DNA in controlling our behaviour and the way we live […]
El País

[:es]La experimentación con animales cae al mínimo desde que hay registros[:]

Un informe oficial constata que en 2017 se utilizaron 610.000 ejemplares menos que en 2009
MIT Technology Review

[:es]Un avatar con los datos de nuestra vida, la fórmula para ser inmortales[:]

La plataforma Augmented Eternity pretende recoger datos de redes sociales y ‘apps’ para crear una versión virtual de nosotros mismos que interactúe con nuestros allegados después de que fallezcamos. Sin […]
Astrobiology Magazine

[:es] How life could help atmospheric tides slow a planet’s rotation [:]

Resonating oscillations of a planet’s atmosphere caused by gravitational tides and heating from its star could prevent a planet’s rotation from steadily slowing over time, according to new research by […]
El Independiente

[:es]Vela solar, la tecnología para conquistar otras estrellas[:]

Aunque es improbable que la hayan usado extraterrestres, la vela solar es un proyecto con visos de hacerse realidad
The New York Times

[:es]The Mysteries of Animal Movement[:]

A scientist’s unfettered curiosity leads him to investigate the physics at work in some very odd corners of the natural world.
SINC

[:es]La hora del día influye en las calorías que quemamos[:]

Nuestro cuerpo quema hasta un 10% más de calorías al final de la tarde que a primera hora de la mañana cuando la tasa metabólica es menor. Esta es la […]
The Guardian

[:es]The making of an opioid epidemic [:]

When high doses of painkillers led to widespread addiction, it was called one of the biggest mistakes in modern medicine. But this was no accident.