Zientzia hedabideetan
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More Details on Rising Mortality Among Middle-Aged Whites
The authors of a much-discussed study on mortality rates among middle-aged whites have released additional data that rebuts part of an argument made by a critic of their study.
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Cómo logró Noruega salvar sus bosques cuando estaban a punto de desaparecer
Noruega estuvo una vez a punto de perder casi todos sus bosques. Tras siglos de talas, el país había consumido gran parte de sus recursos naturales, antes enormes. Pero todo esto […]
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Ancient arthropod brains surprise paleontologists
Exceptionally well-preserved 520-million-year-old arthropod brains overturn the old idea that nervous tissue does not fossilize, and provide fresh insights into brain evolution
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El científico que ilumina cerebros apagados
Andrés Lozano (Sevilla, 1959) cambió siendo un niño el calor de su Triana natal por la gélida Toronto, donde llegó a convertirse en uno de los mejores neurocirujanos del mundo. […]
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India is training ‘quacks’ to do real medicine. This is why
The idea of training rural medical practitioners ignites acrimonious debate in India. On one side are the Indian doctors, and more importantly the associations that represent them, such as the […]
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Las orcas aprenden a ‘robar’ a los pescadores del Estrecho
Dos de los cinco grupos de cetáceos que habitan en la zona han aprendido aprovecharse de los pescadores que capturan atún con palangre. Investigadores españoles muestran cómo son capaces de […]
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De Laika a Nadezhda: los héroes olvidados de la conquista espacial
Monos, ratones, gatos, tortugas e incluso cucarachas forman parte de una larga lista de astronautas involuntarios que han permitido que la ciencia aeroespacial haya llegado hasta donde está hoy.
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Nonreligious children are more generous
Religious doctrines typically urge the faithful to treat others with compassion and to put the greater good before selfish interests. But when it comes to generosity, nonreligious kids seem to […]
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Leukaemia success heralds wave of gene-editing therapies
Layla, a one-year-old girl with leukaemia, is in remission thanks to gene-editing technology that allowed her to receive modified immune cells from another person.