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Sep 02 2023
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Why do we have five fingers... and not four or seven?

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Cervera de Buitrago is a town in the Community of Madrid located in the shadow of the Sierra Norte, which arose in the time of Ál-Andalus to control the center of the peninsula against the attack of the Christian hordes. It is said that in 1928 he moved…

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Sep 01 2023
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NASA shows the first image of the crater left by the Russian spacecraft on the Moon

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NASA published on Thursday night the first image of a new crater on the Moon, probably formed by the impact of the Russian Luna-25 probe, which crashed into the surface of the Earth's satellite two weeks ago. The photograph was taken…

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Sep 01 2023
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After the Moon, India wants to conquer the Sun

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Last week India accomplished a great feat by conquering the sought-after south pole of the Moon, and now its next objective is the Sun. The Indian Space Research Agency (ISRO) announced earlier this week that tomorrow, Saturday, September 2,…

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Sep 01 2023
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Pappus's theorem

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Pappus of Alexandria formulated important geometric theorems and studied the Platonic solids in relation to the sphere

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Sep 01 2023
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The Sun launches an unexpected and massive cloud of plasma against Mars

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It is what we could call a surprise attack. One launched without warning against Mars, in the form of a fiery cloud of plasma that, according to scientists, could strip the red planet of a good part of its already tenuous and deteriorated atmosphere….

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Aug 31 2023
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Only 1,200 people remained: the moment when humanity almost became extinct

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A genetic analysis suggests that 930,000 years ago the population of human ancestors was on the brink of extinction, which could have produced the emergence of a new species

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Aug 31 2023
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The near extinction of our first ancestors was about to condemn our species to non-existence.

By forumcilac Portal

Between 813,000 and 930,000 years ago, the direct ancestors of our species reduced their numbers so much that they practically became extinct. Which would have meant that Homo sapiens, we, would never have come to exist and humans act…

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Aug 31 2023
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El marketing de la industria alimentaria: ¿sabemos lo que compramos?

By forumcilac Portal

Muchos de los alimentos caseros, veganos o proteicos son, en realidad, productos procesados y ultraprocesados que no aportan ningún valor nutricional extra

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Aug 30 2023
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The blue supermoon and the tyranny of the click

By forumcilac Portal

It's time to dust off old astrological beliefs and enjoy the spectacle of the Moon tonight: a simple full moon.

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Aug 30 2023
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Avi Loeb confirms that the Im1 object, which fell into the Pacific in 2014, came from other stars

By forumcilac Portal

On January 8, 2014, three years before the passage of Oumuamua, considered until now the first interstellar object detected by man, the sensors of the United States Department of Defense detected 'something' penetrating at full speed…

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