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El País

[:eu]¿Podría el aleteo de una mariposa cambiar el futuro del cosmos?[:]

La llamada “estabilidad del modelo estándar de cosmología” pretende determinar si leves modificaciones en las hipótesis de partida podrían cambiar la dinámica del universo en su conjunto
The Conversation

[: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 could tell us about these bones, and other ones. Together with biblical scholar Joe Basile, I was travelling around the world filming a documentary about…
Quanta

[:eu]A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost[:]

When a German retiree proved a famous long-standing mathematical conjecture, the response was underwhelming.
SINC

[:eu]Reprogramar células cerebrales para tratar eficazmente el párkinson[:]

El párkinson afecta a una de cada 1.000 personas en todo el mundo. A pesar de ser la segunda patología neurodegenerativa en mayores, los tratamientos siguen sin dar buenos resultados. Un nuevo estudio publicado en Nature Biotechnology sostiene que, gracias a la reprogramación celular, se pueden crear las neuronas que los pacientes pierden con la…
The New Yorker

[:eu]The despair of learning that experience no longer matters[:]

Two Princeton economists suggest that rising white-working-class mortality might be related to another phenomenon: people are aging but aren’t getting what they think they’ve earned.
Teknautas

[:eu]El ‘cerebro’ de Google reta ahora a los mejores jugadores de Go en China… a la vez[:]

La inteligencia artificial de Google se enfrentará a un equipo de cinco expertos e incluso a otras inteligencias artificiales llegadas desde el lejano oriente
The New York Times

[:eu]A Genetic Oddity May Give Octopuses and Squids Their Smarts[:]

In the journal Cell on Thursday, the scientists reported that octopuses, squid and cuttlefish make extensive use of RNA editing, a genetic process thought to have little functional significance in most other animals, to diversify proteins in their nervous system. And natural selection seems to have favored RNA editing in coleoids, even though it potentially…
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[:eu]Test: pon a prueba tu visión periférica[:]

Un trabajo con voluntarios muestra que la capacidad de distinguir objetos mediante la visión periférica varía significativamente entre individuos. Todos tenemos zonas de sombra en nuestro campo visual en las que apenas somos capaces de distinguir los detalles.
Science

[:eu]Unique Canadian ice core collection suffers catastrophic meltdown[:]

A precious collection of ice cores from the Canadian Arctic has suffered a catastrophic meltdown. A freezer failure at a cold storage facility in Edmonton run by the University of Alberta (UA) caused 180 of the meter-long ice cylinders to melt, depriving scientists of some of the oldest records of climate change in Canada’s far…