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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 Parraportal-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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12/06/2020
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The places you go (or don't) can change your personality

By Melissa DeWitte-StanfordUncategorized

Where you spend time may shape who you are, new research shows, and spending so much time at home during the pandemic may shift your personality traits.

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11/06/2020
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This miniature bird figurine has become the oldest Chinese work of art

By Sergio Parraportal-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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11/06/2020
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Books that inspire us: 'Let's live science' by Pere Estupinyà

By Sergio Parraportal-3

Pere Estupinyà 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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11/06/2020
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Rocket Lab will launch satellites for the US agency Spysat and NASA tonight to the rhythm of Queen

By Sergio Parraportal-3

Rocket Lab is an American aerospace company with a subsidiary in New Zealand, whose mission is to develop cost-effective light commercial orbital launch services. Electron is a disposable launch vehicle or…

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11/06/2020
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It is discovered that in the heart of a species of primate, related to humans, there is a bone

By Sergio Parraportal-3

Called os cordis, this bone is at the heart of very few animal species, and has now been found in some chimpanzees, which could be important for monitoring their health and conservation: wild chimpanzees are in p…

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10/06/2020
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Today science is on strike over racism towards black people and the death of George Floyd

By Sergio Parraportal-3

More than 4,000 scientists and some scientific organizations, as well as universities and academic journals such as Nature and others, have stopped research activities this June 10 to reflect and take action on purpose…

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10/06/2020
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¿Cómo se han reducido las emisiones de carbono por la pandemia de COVID-19?

By Research and Science: Scientific newsPortal, portal-3

Los datos revelan los sectores, los países y los acontecimientos que han tenido la mayor repercusión. Sin embargo, no está claro cuánto durará esa disminución.

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09/06/2020
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Much of our sense of a colorful visual world is probably constructed by our brain.

By Sergio Parraportal-3

According to a new study from Dartmouth in collaboration with Amherst College, people are aware of color to a surprisingly limited extent in their peripheral vision. The findings are published in Proceedings of the…

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09/06/2020
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