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The New York Times

[:eu]What Did Neanderthals Leave to Modern Humans? Some Surprises[:]

Genes inherited from Neanderthals may have made some modern humans heartier, but also more prone to depression and other diseases.
The Atlantic

[:eu]Decoding the Origami That Drives All Life[:]

“Proteins are built to a precision that would make human engineers blush—every atom is always in exactly the right position.”
Elhuyar

[:eu]Informazioa oso azkar eta ia berorik sortu gabe gordetzeko modua aurkitu dute[:]

Oso azkar eta oso bero gutxi sortuz informazioa grabatu eta gordetzeko teknika baten berri eman dute Nature aldizkarian argitaratu duten lan batean. Argia eta magnetismoa erabiltzen ditu teknikak, eta etorkizunean informazioa gordetzeko gailu hobeak sortzeko balio lezake.
The Verge

[:eu]Yes, science is political[:]

The scientific method consists of generating a hypothesis, attempting to disprove the hypothesis through testing, and accumulating those tests to come up with shared knowledge. And that method also contains ideology: our observed, shared world is the real world. This ideology even has a name: empiricism. An incoming president who clearly picks and chooses facts…
The Economist

[:eu]Two strange mammals illuminate the process of natural selection[:]

What distantly related pandas reveal about genetics
Zientzia.eus

[:eu]Namibiako zirkuluen sorrerari buruzko azalpen berria argitaratu dute[:]

Namibiako zirkulu mortuen sorrerari buruzko azalpen berria argitaratu dute aste honetan Nature aldizkarian.
MIT Technology Review

[:eu]La “intuición” de la IA le apunta una nueva victoria contra los humanos: el póker[:]

El póker se ha resistido siempre a la inteligencia artificial por su información imperfecta, pero un nuevo software intuye la próxima mano como ante un farol
Nature News

[:eu]Cancer reproducibility project releases first results[:]

An open-science effort to replicate dozens of cancer-biology studies is off to a confusing start.
The Guardian

[:eu]How statistics lost their power – and why we should fear what comes next[:]

The ability of statistics to accurately represent the world is declining. In its wake, a new age of big data controlled by private companies is taking over – and putting democracy in peril