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Sep 30 2023
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Why does the wind whistle?

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn State Portal

One of the least desired atmospheric phenomena is the wind, which has a double peculiarity: it is not seen, but it can be heard. And, if we get bombastic, we can say that the wind is capable of generating a mysterious melody that surrounds our…

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Sep 29 2023
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Full harvest moon today: at what time can you see the September full moon in Spain and from where

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn State Portal

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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Sep 29 2023
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Gamow's elevator

By Carlo Frabetti Portal

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

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Sep 29 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 Mediavilla Portal

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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Sep 28 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 State Portal

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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Sep 28 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 State Portal

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

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn State Portal

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

By Montero Glez Portal

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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Sep 27 2023
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'Garumbatitan', a new species of giant dinosaur, emerges from the underground of Morella, in Castellón

By Maria Pitarch Portal

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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Sep 27 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 State Portal

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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