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Great white shark's diet discovered to be stranger than previously thought

By Sergio Parraportal-3

The first detailed study of the diets of great white sharks off Australia's east coast reveals that this predator spends more time feeding near the seafloor than expected.

The study found that, according to…

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08/06/2020
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Reviewing files, a plasmoid 22,000 times larger than Earth is discovered on Uranus

By Sergio Parraportal-3

Our image of Uranus has not advanced substantially beyond being the featureless blue ball captured by Voyager 2's instruments in 1986.

But last year, while reviewing NASA files, two ci...

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08/06/2020
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The time when people began to read more than ever (especially gossip)

By Sergio Parraportal-3

Although we complain bitterly assuming that children read little or that they spend hours and hours reading nonsense, gossip and memes on their social networks, the truth is that this has been a constant throughout history.

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07/06/2020
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For the first time in history, MIT elects an African American student body president

By Sergio Parraportal-3

For the first in its 159 years of existence, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has elected a black woman as president of its Undergraduate Association (UA).

Danielle Geathers obtained the position after organizing a successful ca…

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06/06/2020
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How the discoverer of E. coli did it by examining baby poop

By Sergio Parraportal-3

Escherichia coli (E. coli for friends) is a bacteria that is a member of the Enterobacteriaceae family and is part of the microbiota of the gastrointestinal tract of homeothermic animals, such as humans.

Most of …

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06/06/2020
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Apples are becoming sweeter and a few centuries ago they were as sweet as a carrot

By Sergio Parraportal-3

Excess sugar consumption is a problem in the most developed countries. A single can of soda may already have half of all the daily sugar recommended for an adult.

The ironic thing is that if half a liter of soda can…

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06/06/2020
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An El Niño event could be triggered by this volcano next winter

By Sergio Parraportal-3

The released gases could trigger an El Niño event during winter 2020-21, a more intense polar vortex and warming across Eurasia, according to a study carried out by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Sis...

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05/06/2020
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