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Leonardo Torres Quevedo. Oinak lurrean, burua airean
Donostian, 1907ko irailaren 30eko euri zaparradek ez zuten Ulian bildutako jendearen ikusmina zapuztu. Hirurehun bat metroko distantziara zeuden bi tontorren artean, ongi tenkaturik ikusten ziren sei kable; eta, haietatik zintzilik, […]
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An update on AIDS: HIV’s slow retrenchment
The latest dispatch from the war on HIV, the “Global AIDS Update 2016”, just published by UNAIDS, the UN agency responsible for combating the virus, brings qualified good news.
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Low-mass particles that make high-mass stars go boom
When some stars much more massive than the sun reach the end of their lives, they explode in a supernova, fusing lighter atoms into heavier ones and dispersing the products […]
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A guy trained a machine to “watch” Blade Runner. Then things got seriously sci-fi.
Warner had just DMCA’d an artificial reconstruction of a film about artificial intelligence being indistinguishable from humans, because it couldn’t distinguish between the simulation and the real thing.
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Crean ratones con telómeros hiperlargos sin alterar los genes
Científicos del CNIO han desarrollado ratones con menos signos de envejecimiento molecular y una menor incidencia de cáncer. La técnica ofrece una nueva manera de retrasar el envejecimiento sin alterar […]
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Sinestesia: berezko errealitate areagotua
Imajinatu zerbait entzuten duzun bakoitzean (musika, zarata, ahotsa) koloreak, itxurak eta mugimendua ikusten dituzula. Edo emozio biziak (gertuko baten heriotza, orgasmoa) kolore jakin batekoak direla zuretzat. Batzuek ez dute horrelakorik […]
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What is so special about things that never happened? Richard Dawkins on fiction v science
As The Selfish Gene turns 40, the author reflects on what he has learned about writing and science
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El anillo de Einstein casi perfecto que descubrieron científicos en las Canarias
Horas de horas de observación para su tesis doctoral sobre la galaxia enana de Sculptor. En eso estaba Margherita Bettinelli en el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) cuando algo […]
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Guy Consolmangno, the Vatican’s Chief Astronomer, on Balancing Church With the Cosmos
The MIT graduate speaks to how he ended up studying the stars for the Catholic Church.
