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Sunday, March 6 2022
Source: Nature As female researchers from Latin American countries (one of us now works in the United States, the other in Argentina), we’re used to career obstacles. These range from limited funding...
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Saturday, February 19 2022
Source: Nature Open-access papers have drastically fewer lead authors from low-income regions than do paywalled articles, an analysis of tens of thousands of articles shows. The findings suggest that...
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Friday, January 28 2022
Source: Nature An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and research topics, has been launched. The index,...
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Thursday, January 27 2022
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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Thursday, January 27 2022
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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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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Wednesday, January 12 2022
Source: Science Magazine In a near rerun of early 2020, when dozens of meetings were canceled on short notice because of the pandemic, a handful of scientific societies are once again canceling their...
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Tuesday, January 11 2022
By Santiago Castro-Gómez · Rowman & Littlefield, 2021 Operating within the framework of postcolonial studies and decolonial theory, this important work starts from the assumption that the...
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Tuesday, January 11 2022
By Michael Strevens Liveright, 2020 During the seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution, a small handful of radical thinkers, among them Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton, hit upon a way of...
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Monday, January 10 2022
Alberto Varillas Montenegro Lima : Fondo Editorial del Congreso del Perú : Instituto Riva-Agüero : Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2019 Primera parte: José Gregorio Paredes, hombre de...
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Monday, January 10 2022
William Jiménez Escobar Bogotá : Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, 2020 Colección: Cuadernos Coloniales Páginas: 203 A partir de un recorrido por colecciones bibliográficas de una...
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Thursday, January 6 2022
Source: Nature A proposal to shrink Brazil’s federal science budget by more than 90% has now been approved by our president. The immediate future of all ongoing projects, including thousands of...
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Thursday, January 6 2022
Science and Society in Latin America. Peripheral Modernities, by P. Kreimer, New York and London: Routledge, 2019, 270 p., $48.95 (pbk)/$160 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-03209326-0 There has been a renewed...
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Thursday, December 30 2021
Source: Nature The deaths of two people following a laboratory explosion at a Chinese university in October have raised alarm among researchers. The full circumstances that led to the deaths at the...
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Wednesday, December 29 2021
por Rodrigo Fernós Luis Caldera Ortiz Historia de los terremotos en Puerto Rico Lares, PR: Editorial Akelarre, 2020 En su Historia de los terremotos en Puerto Rico (2020), Luis Caldera Ortiz nos...
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Wednesday, December 29 2021
Source: New York Times Edward O. Wilson, a biologist and author who conducted pioneering work on biodiversity, insects and human nature — and won two Pulitzer Prizes along the way — died on Sunday...
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Wednesday, December 29 2021
Source:NPR ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The prominent biologist E.O. Wilson died yesterday. As NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports, he shaped modern thinking on evolution and the environment. GEOFF BRUMFIEL, BYLINE:...
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Wednesday, December 29 2021
Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, Dec 27 (Reuters) - E.O. Wilson, an American naturalist dubbed the modern day Darwin whose interest in ants led him to conclusions about human nature being directed by...
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Tuesday, December 28 2021
Source: Nature Researchers have built an artificial intelligence (AI) that can generate new mathematical formulae — including some as-yet unsolved problems that continue to challenge mathematicians....
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Tuesday, December 28 2021
Source: Nature For the first time, machine learning has spotted mathematical connections that humans had missed. Researchers at artificial-intelligence powerhouse DeepMind, based in London, teamed...
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Friday, February 28 2020
Fuente: Centro de Periodismo InvestigativoAna Roqué de Duprey, luchadora por el derecho al voto de las mujeres que sabían leer y escribir, se encontraba enferma en cama en su casa de Río Piedras. La...
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Wednesday, January 1 2020
Fuente: SciDev Las repercusiones de los recortes presupuestales en ciencia y tecnología, el surgimiento de nuevas enfermedades transmitidas por vectores y el avance de otras ya conocidas —tanto en...
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Friday, December 20 2019
Source: Nature 1) RICARDO GALVÃO: Science defenderRicardo Galvão nearly passed out when he heard the news and realized he was being targeted by his own president. On 19 July, Brazil’s leader, Jair...
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Tuesday, December 17 2019
Source: Pan DailyChinese technology companies have grown in scale and confidence and are increasingly looking to influence internet revolutions in other regions across the world. Much has been said...
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Monday, December 16 2019
by María Belén Albornoz (2020)Assessing the Left Turn in EcuadorSPRINER, 2020AbstractThis chapter explains the paradigmatic Ecuadorian STI policy change throughout the analysis of the most salient...
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