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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?

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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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About 11 centimeters per year: the distance at which Titan moves away from Saturn each year: a hundred times faster than estimated

By Sergio Parraportal-3

According to data from NASA's last Cassini mission, the moon Titan is moving away from Saturn one hundred times faster than thought.

Titan is currently 1.2 million kilometers from Saturn, and is approximately 11 centimeters away...

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09/06/2020
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The entelechy of equality or why we focus more on some discriminations and not others

By Sergio Parraportal-3

Inequality and discrimination or classism based on said inequality is a profound and, to a certain extent, inextricable part of human relationships.

We are only more aware of the inequalities that become apparent…

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09/06/2020
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Science has immovable foundations and is the closest thing to the truth without any burden of opinion or subjectivism.

By Sergio Parraportal-3

It is often argued that science makes mistakes, that science corrects itself, that science, if it is dogmatic, is not science. This is not entirely true. It all depends, of course, on what we consider to be immovable or dogmatic.

Much…

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08/06/2020
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Fasting for just one day causes intestinal cell regeneration to double, according to a new study

By Sergio Parraportal-3

Researchers at MIT discovered a couple of years ago that fasting for 24 hours activates a metabolic shift in mice, causing their intestines to improve their intestinal stem cells.

Intestinal stem cells are a…

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08/06/2020
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