This is the 2019 Fat Bear Week. Throughout the week, thousands of Internet users voted to designate the largest brown bear in Katmai National Park, Alaska. In other words, it is the one who will spend the winter with the most reserves of fat. Every year since 2014, officials in Katmai National Park, Alaska, have […]
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According to a recent report by the World Health Organization (WHO), the world could not cope with a new generalized pandemic. As this risk increases, the poorest countries will become the most vulnerable to disaster. The risk of a global pandemic The last major pandemic in history is none other than the 1918 Spanish flu […]
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A chemical analysis of three iron and bronze age ceramic containers suggests that some European babies were sometimes fed with animal milk. The details of the study are published in the journal Nature. Containers with older “spouts” have already been found in Germany (dating from 7,500 to 6,800 years ago). Some assumed they could be […]
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We knew that the bodies of humans (and animals) were likely to “move” a few days after death, due to the process of decomposition. But according to a recent study published by Australian researchers, these “movements” could last for several months. According to scientists, these observations are due to the process of contraction and narrowing […]
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In October 2017, an object (probably an asteroid) 400 meters in diameter was spotted by researchers at the University of Hawaii. Given its hyperbolic trajectory, it was considered that this one – baptized “Oumuamua” – came from outside the solar system. A historical first. A few days ago, a team of astronomers spotted a comet […]
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In the 80s, it was a bad stranger they called “gay cancer.” Now, although still far from finding a cure, having HIV has ceased to be a death sentence. This condition, with which 37, 9 million people live in the world, today is treated as chronic because the current treatment allows the seropositive to live […]
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A group of Spanish scientists found a strange genetic mutation that faces the infection of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the body. On the part of the National Center of Microbiology of the ISCII, these researchers found a defect in the gene of the protein transportin 3, which would be fighting HIV and would […]
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The founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, surprised attendees of the World Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which was held in Shanghai, saying he was in favor of reducing working hours. In the event, the billionaire estimated that people should work only 12 hours a week, although he clarified that such benefit would be possible thanks to […]
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A few days ago, sailors sailing in the southwestern Pacific noticed a strange structure floating on the surface of the ocean. By recovering some pieces, and sniffing the smells, they quickly realized that they were actually volcanic stones, expelled from the depths. Off the coast of Fiji, sailors on board a catamaran have noticed on […]
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A group of specialists from the Institute of Aging Biology of the Max Planck Society (Germany) developed a blood test that can determine the risks of death of a person in the next 10 years. Through 14 different biomarkers, this test allows predicting with 83% accuracy if the person will stay alive or die in […]
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