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Invasión del sargazo abre oportunidades para la ciencia

Fuetne: SciDev.Net  Los altos niveles de exposición al sargazo —una macroalga parda invasora que prolifera hace más de una década en las costas del Atlántico tropical— alteran condiciones ambientales...

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Massive DNA sequencing effort reveals how colonization shaped Brazil’s genetic diversity

Source: Science With people of multiple origins and ethnicities, Brazil has long been recognized as one of the most genetically diverse countries in the world. Now, the largest genomic study of the...

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GM corn and glyphosate science: Documents from Mexico-US trade dispute

Source: R (USRTK) In February 2023, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued a presidential decree restricting the use of genetically modified (GM) corn in tortillas and other minimally...

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Novo Sordo, Historia de la microbiología del suelo en Cuba (2009)

Historia de la microbiología del suelo en Cuba By René Novo Sordo, Juan Germán Hernández Barrueta ·  Editorial Universitaria, 2009 Desde finales del siglo XIX , en el mundo , al ponerse de manifiesto...

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Alejandro, Ciencia y diplomacia: penicilina en Estados Unidos y México, 1939-1945 (2024)

Ciencia y diplomacia: penicilina en Estados Unidos y México, 1939-1945 Emmanuel Alejandro, Giraldo Granada ·  Universidad del Rosario, 2024 El descubrimiento de la penicilina representó uno de los...

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3,427 trafficked baby turtles rescued in Mexico

3,427 trafficked baby turtles rescued in Mexico Source: Popular Science Wildlife trafficking of turtles, parrots, and more in Mexico—with most transactions conducted on social media—is threatening the...

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Vida en Océano Pacífico peligra por ruidosa minería submarina

Vida en Océano Pacífico peligra por ruidosa minería submarina Fuente: SciDev [CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, SciDev.Net] La minería submarina conlleva un riesgo subestimado e invisible: el ruido en las...

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GM corn and glyphosate science: Documents from Mexico-US trade dispute

Source: USRTK In February 2023, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued a presidential decree restricting the use of genetically modified (GM) corn in tortillas and other minimally...

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Walsh, The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile (2022)

The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile Sarah Walsh University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022 The Religion of Life examines the interconnections and relationship between Catholicism...

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Freitas, The Interior: Recentering Brazilian History (2025)

The Interior: Recentering Brazilian History Edited by Frederico Freitas and Jacob Blanc University of Texas Press, 2025  In colonial Brazil, observers frequently complained that Portuguese settlers...

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Innovación aumenta vida útil de las frutas

Fuente: SciDev Un revestimiento natural de origen vegetal está demostrando ser una herramienta prometedora para prolongar la vida útil de las frutas. Al formar una barrera contra la pérdida de...

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Barahona, Handbook of the Historiography of Latin American Studies on the Life Sciences and Medicine (2022)

Handbook of the Historiography of Latin American Studies on the Life Sciences and Medicine Ana Barahona Springer International, 2022 This volume provides a definitive assessment of the historiography...

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Higman, Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture (2022)

Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture By B. W. Higman · 2022 University of the West Indies Press 2022      The historical study of food and the anthropology of food are recent and growing fields...

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A viagem de Alfred Russel Wallace ao Brasil

A viagem de Alfred Russel Wallace ao Brasil uma aplicação de história da ciência no ensino de Biologia By ROSA ANDREA LOPES DE SOUZA   Editora Dialética (2021) Esta obra, de abordagem inclusiva da...

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Impact Report 2022

Source: Charles Darwin Foundation Dear Members, Friends, and Supporters of the Charles Darwin Foundation, It is a great pleasure to present our 2022 Impact Report. The year has proven to be a...

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Walsh, The Religion of Life (2022)

The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile Sarah Walsh University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022 The Religion of Life examines the interconnections and relationship between Catholicism...

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Latin America’s bird scientists issue manifesto to end marginalization

Source: Science Two years ago, a group of ornithologists was outraged by the publication of a paper that highlighted how much scientists still don’t know about birds from Latin America and the...

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American Scientists Bringing Animals Back From Extinction

Source: Ancient Origins   In a world where the delicate balance of nature is threatened by human activities, a group of American scientists has taken on an extraordinary mission. Hidden away within...

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Signy Research station 75th anniversary; RRS Sir David Attenborough visit

Source: MercoPress This week RRS Sir David Attenborough visited South Georgia arriving at the upgraded wharf for the first time at King Edward Point marking a new chapter for polar science The...

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Scientific survey of penguins response to climate change in Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctica

Source: MercoPress     An international team of scientists, including two from the University of Bath, has just arrived back from an expedition studying penguin colonies in the Falkland Islands,...

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Científicos cuentan las especies de árboles del mundo y más del 40% está en Sudamérica

Fuente: Voz de America     Desde el pehuén en el cono sur hasta el eucalipto azul de Tasmania en Australia, desde los baobabs de Madagascar hasta las secuoyas gigantes de California, el mundo ha sido...

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New dangers? Computers uncover 100,000 novel viruses in old genetic data

Source: Science Magazine It took just one virus to cripple the world’s economy and kill millions of people; yet virologists estimate that trillions of still-unknown viruses exist, many of which might...

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Argentina: país modelo para descolonizar la paleontología

Fuente: SciDev   Para enfrentar el colonialismo que impera en la paleontología de América Latina, es necesario fortalecer regulaciones y comunidades científicas locales, pero también propiciar que la...

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Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity

Source: Nature   Sampling biases in the fossil record distort estimates of past biodiversity. However, these biases not only reflect the geological and spatial aspects of the fossil record, but also...

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Evolution on the vine: A history of tomato domestication in Latin America

Source: PHys.Org   The common cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L. var. lycopersicum; or (SLL)) is among the world's most widely grown vegetable crops, from big agricultural farms to heirloom...

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