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La zoóloga Inma Estévez utiliza sus conocimientos sobre comportamiento animal para resolver problemas y optimizar el rendimiento de las granjas de pollos. Con ella, una jornada entre gallinas puede ser tan fascinante como un capítulo de “El hombre y la Tierra”.

Studies of the energy-harvesting proteins in primitive cells suggest that key features of photosynthesis might have evolved a billion years earlier than scientists thought.

Worse, sepsis now contributes to up to half of all deaths of hospitalized patients, making it the eleventh biggest cause of death in the U.S., killing more people than breast cancer, prostate cancer, and AIDS combined.

Casper Rutjes and Ute Ebert trace how our understanding of thunderstorm physics has evolved in recent decades and explain how neutron measurements could produce fresh insights

In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, AlphaGo Zero took just three days to master the ancient Chinese board game of Go … with no human help

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El calendario de incendios pierde sentido en un escenario de cambio climático para la organización ecologista WWF, que considera que los incendios que traía el calentamiento global ya están aquí: fuera de la temporada tradicional de alto riesgo, con condiciones de sequía y calor extremas en el mes de octubre.

Can a fish be depressed? This question has been floating around my head ever since I spent a night in a hotel across from an excruciatingly sad-looking Siamese fighting fish. His name was Bruce Lee, according to a sign beneath his little bowl.