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Sergio Parra

Jun 14 2020
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This is the smallest ad that has been created and cannot be seen with the naked eye.

By Sergio Parra portal-3

On September 21, 2018, Dutch technology company ASML unveiled a 258.19 square micrometer advertisement in Veldhoven, Netherlands.

It was engraved and printed on an electronic wafer and said: «To become very...

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Jun 14 2020
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The real Cyrano was a lover of men and obsessed with outer space

By Sergio Parra portal-3

We all have in mind a man with a nose as sharp as his tongue capable of seducing any woman with his verbiage when we think of Cyrano de Bergerac.

But this French poet, playwright and thinker, a contemporary of Boileau and…

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Jun 13 2020
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Almost half of the Earth has not yet received a significant impact from humans

By Sergio Parra portal-3

Although we could have a resource problem or an environmental conflict, the truth is that the Earth is almost empty of humans: we could all fit comfortably on the Iberian Peninsula with a population density similar to…

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Jun 13 2020
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The first thinkers who realized that Earth was just a small dot in a vast universe

By Sergio Parra portal-3

A pale blue dot is a photograph of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 space probe from a distance of 6 billion kilometers. The image shows the Earth as a speck or point of light that is almost imperceptible due to the glare...

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Jun 13 2020
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The tribe that specifies how you reach a certain conclusion when using a verb

By Sergio Parra portal-3

I think that, I think that, this is like this, this is like that, I am right, my ideology is... all of these are commonplaces not only in any bar conversation, but in debates.

However, the evidence is rarely talked about…

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Jun 12 2020
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Aqua-Fi, the underwater equivalent of WiFi

By Sergio Parra portal-3

Radio waves travel poorly through water, making it difficult for divers or submersibles to transmit information wirelessly to the surface.

However, scientists are trying to change that by developing…

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Jun 12 2020
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For the first time, a spacecraft has sent images of an extraterrestrial sky where the stars are in other positions

By Sergio Parra portal-3

NASA's New Horizons mission has traveled so far that it now has a unique view of the nearest stars. So much so that he has sent us, for the first time, images of the sky from so far away that some stars seem to be...

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Jun 12 2020
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Embodied cognition: the problem with turning our thoughts to a robot or a computer is that we are also our body

By Sergio Parra portal-3

In science fiction it is common for a person to pour all their thoughts, their consciousness, their Self, into a robot or a computer. That a machine simulates each and every one of the neural processes so that one goes from existing to...

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Jun 11 2020
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This miniature bird figurine has become the oldest Chinese work of art

By Sergio Parra portal-3

Dating back to 13,000 years, a miniature bird figurine carved from a burnt bone has become the oldest known three-dimensional Chinese and East Asian work of art.

These works are the first examples…

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Jun 11 2020
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Books that inspire us: 'Let's live science' by Pere EstupinyĂ 

By Sergio Parra portal-3

Pere EstupinyĂ  is already a regular on Xataka Ciencia. Here we have reviewed his The Brain Thief or S=EX2: The Science of Sex. As we couldn't do otherwise, now it's time for its latest novelty: Living Science: The Passions...

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