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Gamow's elevator

By Carlo FrabettiPortal

Among the numerous means of transportation that appear in recreational mathematics problems, elevators could not be missing.

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29/09/2023
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Donna Strickland, Nobel Prize in Physics: “It is difficult to see the thread that goes from Einstein's equations to GPS”

By Daniel MediavillaPortal

The researcher, who in 2018 became the third woman in history to be awarded in her discipline, affirms that good science can be done anywhere if the objective is chosen well.

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29/09/2023
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Meteorite or volcanoes? They eliminate the 'human factor' so that an AI discovers the truth about the extinction of the dinosaurs

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn StatePortal

Was it really an asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs from the face of the Earth? Or was its sudden extinction, 66 million years ago, more due to a sharp increase in volcanic activity at the end of the Cretaceous? It is one…

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28/09/2023
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Full harvest moon: what time can you see the September full moon in Spain and what is its meaning

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn StatePortal

The wait for astronomy lovers has come to an end. After weeks of absence of astronomical events, the last days of September will bring about a new phenomenon that fans of lunar observation have been waiting for for a long time. It is about…

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28/09/2023
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Humans against giant hyenas: the fight for carrion a million years ago

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn StatePortal

A million years ago in the Iberian Peninsula, saber-toothed tigers and jaguars reigned among the carnivores. They hunted large prey: deer, cattle and horses, whose remains abandoned on the ground would not go unnoticed by us...

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28/09/2023
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Can birds attack humans like in Hitchcock's film?

By Montero GlezPortal

One spring afternoon, when I approached the castle of Sancti Petri by canoe, the seagulls went crazy, swooping down towards my canoe which capsized and left me in the middle of the ocean dominated by a paralyzing panic.

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28/09/2023
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'Garumbatitan', a new species of giant dinosaur, emerges from the underground of Morella, in Castellón

By Maria PitarchPortal

Quadruped and herbivore, it reached 10 meters in height and inhabited the Els Ports region, one of the best records of the Lower Cretaceous in Europe, 122 million years ago.

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27/09/2023
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The occupants of a cave in Granada were already weaving baskets 9,500 years ago, among the oldest in the world

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn StatePortal

Traditional basket makers boast of practicing one of the oldest known trades. What they probably don't know is how right they are. 9,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers collected esparto grass and braided it to create small…

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27/09/2023
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Esparto sandals found in a cave in Granada, the oldest footwear in Europe

By Miguel Ángel CriadoPortal

Neolithic farmers made espadrilles 6,200 years ago with the same material that hunter-gatherers used for their baskets three millennia before.

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27/09/2023
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