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Jul 19 2020
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Genes that change anatomy could change behavior more than those that change the brain

By Sergio Parra portal-3

More than 100 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan and his colleagues discovered that some fruit flies had inherited genetic mutations that caused their body color to change. The mine…

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Jul 18 2020
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The first bacteria that feeds on manganese is found by chance

By Sergio Parra portal-3

Manganese is a grayish-white transition metal, similar to iron. It is a hard and very brittle metal, refractory and easily oxidizable. It is one of the most abundant elements on the Earth's surface. It has now been confirmed…

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Jul 17 2020
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It is 75 years since the first atomic explosion, which also created a new mineral: trinitite

By Sergio Parra portal-3

Richard Feynman claimed to be the only observer to see the explosion without dark glasses, protecting himself from the harmful ultraviolet rays only behind the glass of a truck. Around 260 people witnessed the test, none…

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Jul 15 2020
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Books that inspire us: 'Genesis: The Origin of Societies' by Edward O. Wilson

By Sergio Parra portal-3

Born in Alabama in 1929, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Edward O. Wilson is a world-renowned entomologist, especially in the field of ants, and here, with Genesis, the Origin of Cultures, he once again demonstrates…

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Jul 15 2020
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This star is now traveling at 900,000 kilometers per hour through our galaxy due to a thermonuclear explosion

By Sergio Parra portal-3

White dwarfs are the remaining cores of red giants after these enormous stars have died and shed their outer layers, cooling over the course of billions of years.

Now one of them is crossing…

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Jul 15 2020
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43% of heterosexual men have difficulty identifying a female orgasm

By Sergio Parra portal-3

According to a large study conducted by Brigham Young University, the 43% of men in a study group of 1,683 heterosexual newlywed couples misperceived whether their wife had an orgasm.

D…

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Jul 14 2020
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We must start pursuing electronic cigarettes because their safety is not clear

By Sergio Parra portal-3

Starting next year in Australia, access to e-cigarettes and related products containing liquid nicotine will require a prescription. And this seems like good news.

Because the supposed benefits of…

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Jul 14 2020
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This laser-sculpted aluminum purifies water using sunlight

By Sergio Parra portal-3

A laser-created aluminum black panel can purify water containing human waste and heavy metals in accordance with consumption standards set by the World Health Organization and the Environmental Protection Agency…

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Jul 13 2020
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Michio Kaku, Michael Shermer and Bill Nye explain to us in this video why we tend to believe conspiracy theories

By Sergio Parra portal-3

When we believed that the number of conspiracy theories could no longer grow, the current COVID-19 pandemic has allowed us to reach ends that tread directly into surrealism: 5G, nanobots, lethal injections of AA...

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Jul 13 2020
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The word epidemic simply did not have meaning before the Neolithic because agriculture had not been developed.

By Sergio Parra portal-3

For an epidemic to take place, we now know better than ever, one basic characteristic is needed above all: that we are very close to each other. That there is little safety distance. That there is, in a certain way, a tendency to…

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