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Thursday, January 20 2022
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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Saturday, January 18 2020
Source: NaturePalaeontologists have a fuzzy view of Earth’s history. An incomplete fossil record and imprecise dating techniques make it hard to pinpoint events that happened within geological eras...
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Sunday, October 6 2019
Fuente: El PaisAl ex campeón mundial de ajedrez Gari Kasparov aún le escuece: "No fue la primera partida que perdí contra una máquina. Fue la primera partida que perdí", dice. En 1997 Deep...
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Monday, September 23 2019
Source: Science MagazineCHIAPAS STATE IN MEXICO—About 7 hours by kayak up the Tzendales River, our GPS receiver falls overboard and vanishes in the deep blue water. We are on the fourth day of an...
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Genética
Sunday, June 9 2019
Source: NatureThe human body is a complex mosaic made up of clusters of cells with different genomes — and many of these clusters bear mutations that could contribute to cancer, according to a...
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Friday, April 19 2019
Source: GizmodoNew research describes the remains of a gigantic, four-legged mammalian carnivore that terrorized Africa some 22 million years ago.The name of this formidable creature is Simbakubwa...
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Sunday, March 24 2019
Source: NatureAbstractThe origins of religion and of complex societies represent evolutionary puzzles1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. The ‘moralizing gods’ hypothesis offers a solution to both puzzles by proposing...
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Tuesday, January 15 2019
Source: RoyalSociety Open ScienceThe ecological roots of human susceptibility to social influence: a pre-registered study investigating the impact of early-life adversityPierre O. Jacquet , Lou Safra...
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Wednesday, August 22 2018
Source: NatureA female who died around 90,000 years ago was half Neanderthal and half Denisovan, according to genome analysis of a bone discovered in a Siberian cave. This is the first time scientists...
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Sunday, June 3 2018
Source: NatureA fossil of a carnivorous dinosaur found in the United States is about to go under the hammer. The Parisian auction house managing the sale, scheduled for 4 June in the Eiffel Tower,...
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Genética
Thursday, February 22 2018
Source: Science MagazineJorge Estevez grew up in the Dominican Republic and New York City hearing stories about his native Caribbean ancestors from his mother and grandmother. But when he told his...
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Tuesday, February 6 2018
Source: NatureAn ambitious effort to reconstruct the world’s first flower has seeded a debate over what forms a blossom can and cannot take.The project, called eFLOWER, combined an unparalleled...
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Thursday, August 31 2017
Source: NatureA human skeleton — probably one of the Americas' oldest — was stolen from the Chan Hol Cave in Mexico soon after it was discovered in 2012. A human skeleton that was stolen from an...
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Genética
Friday, August 4 2017
Source: NatureGenome sequences from nearly 2,000-year-old cobs of maize (corn) found in a Utah cave paint a portrait of the crop at the dawn of its adaptation to the highlands of the US southwest....
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Tuesday, August 1 2017
Source: Science MagazineThe construction of a dam in central Brazil has spurred remarkably fast evolution of geckos in the region. In just 15 years, the lizards’ heads have grown larger—an adaptation...
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Monday, July 24 2017
Source: NatureThe JASONs, a group of elite scientists that advises the US government on national security, has weighed in on issues ranging from cyber security to renewing America’s nuclear arsenal....
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Sunday, July 16 2017
Source: NatureIn the late 1960s, a team of researchers began doling out a nutritional supplement to families with young children in rural Guatemala. They were testing the assumption that providing...
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Wednesday, July 12 2017
Source: NatureRadiocarbon dating has long been used to reveal the age of organic materials — from ancient bones to wooden artefacts. Scientists are now using the amassed dates for wider applications,...
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Saturday, July 8 2017
Source: NatureWe can quantify exactly how much faster Usain Bolt is than the next-fastest sprinter. It's much harder to say who is the best scientist, let alone how much better they are than the...
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Sunday, July 2 2017
Source: GizmodoThis has been a huge year for finding specimens in amber, from bird wings to dinosaur feathers to this ugly-ass bug. But this new finding might be the best one yet: a nearly complete...
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Saturday, June 17 2017
Source: GizmodoProfessor S. Jay Olshansky once told Gizmodo, “In the world of aging sciences, if you want to live a long life, choose long-lived parents.” So genetic markers linked to longevity are...
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Tuesday, May 16 2017
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Tuesday, May 16 2017
Source: GizmodoThis 110 million year old fossil of an armored nodosaur is now on display at a natural history museum in Alberta, Canada. Image Credit and Copyright: Robert Clark/National GeographicAn...
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Saturday, April 4 2015
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