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28/05/2024

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04/04/2024

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240114-waqra-pukar-perus-mysterious-horned-fortress

With January 2024 seeing the start of even bigger crowds at Machu Picchu, savvy travellers may be wise to head to the stunning edifice that barely anyone has heard of: Waqra Pukará.

04/04/2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67940671?at_link_origin=BBC_News&at_link_type=web_link&at_link_id=3160FEDE-B0CC-11EE-A12F-0A3A8161DE7E&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_format=link&at_medium=social&at_campaign_type=owned&at_ptr_name=facebook_page&fbclid=IwAR2V3DTzw8cGwsMhGC-2Xtw_q1RC4SDEZQQ1EenP4CRgh2pZMnawerAEYd0

The city was built 2,500 years ago but may have been abandoned after a volcanic eruption.

29/03/2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68684244

Melting ice is slowing the Earth's rotation, affecting how time is calculated, a new study says.

09/01/2024

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/09/2023-record-world-hottest-climate-fossil-fuel

Rapid reduction in fossil fuel burning urgently needed to preserve liveable conditions, say scientists, as climate damage deepens

21/11/2023

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231010-sun-solar-geoengineering-ministry-for-the-future-kim-stanley-robinson

In an influential cli-fi novel, a desperate government ignores international consensus and pumps aerosols into the atmosphere to cool the world. Could it happen for real?

21/11/2023

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231114-orce-spain-the-site-of-europes-earliest-settlers

A series of discoveries is revealing that Europe's first inhabitants settled in a remote and rugged corner of Granada some 1.4 million years ago.

15/11/2023

https://www.lavanguardia.com/natural/20231115/9375145/crisis-climatica-multiplica-transmision-enfermedades-mosquitos.html

Las proyecciones sobre el impacto sanitario de un planeta que va camino de calentarse más de 2 °C apuntan hacia “un futuro peligroso”

05/10/2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/f8ce7277-5945-470a-b1ad-0c637d8265c1

In support of Paranormal, BBC Three spoke to scientists and engineers who have made some fascinating discoveries recently that explain why we see ghosts.

04/09/2023

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66461769

In the Netherlands, experiments are underway to ensure future food supply and cut carbon emissions.

11/08/2023

https://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20230811/9163566/extrano-caso-nino-vampiro-enterrado-boca-abajo-mordiera-vivos-arqueologia.html

Hace un año, los arqueólogos de la Universidad Nicolaus Copernicus hicieron un sorprendente descubrimiento durante las excavaciones en Pniu, cerca de Dąbrowa

06/08/2023

https://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20230806/9153412/ia-revela-yacimientos-valle-indo.html

No es el ojo de Shiva, es mucho más poderoso. Es capaz de detectar sobre el terreno un pedazo de cerámica antigua, por diminuto que sea. También es capaz de ver

03/08/2023

https://www.20minutos.es/tecnologia/tecnologia-empresas/motores-aerospike-cohetes-futuro-pangea-aerospace-espana-pionera-5161915/

La startup española Pangea Aerospace ha sido la primera empresa del mundo en tener éxito encendiendo motores aerospike con biometano y oxígeno líquido. Hablamos con su director general sobre el futuro del sector de la aeronáutica.

11/07/2023

https://www.lavanguardia.com/natural/20230711/9101064/semana-mas-calurosa-planeta.html

En plena alerta de la Aemet por ola de calor, se han registrado las temperaturas más altas en el planeta jamás regustradas.

07/07/2023

https://www.lavanguardia.com/ciencia/20230707/9091221/juegos-mesa-mejoran-capacidad-matematica-ninos-pequenos.html

Son muchos los beneficios pedagógicos que se atribuyen a los juegos de mesa tanto a la hora de desarrollar capacidades cognitivas como afectivas, sociales y

01/06/2023

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230505-the-crazy-plan-to-explode-a-nuclear-bomb-on-the-moon

In the 1950s, with the USSR seemingly sprinting ahead in the space race, US scientists hatched a bizarre plan – nuking the surface of the Moon to frighten the Soviets.

10/05/2023

https://elpais.com/gastronomia/el-comidista/2023-05-10/somos-cocinivoros-como-la-cocina-cambio-para-siempre-nuestro-aparato-digestivo.html

Cocinar los alimentos modificó de forma drástica la anatomía y fisiología del ser humano y nos hizo diferentes al resto de los animales. Tanto que ya no es una elección: una dieta crudívora estricta implica problemas de salud

04/05/2023

https://smoda.elpais.com/moda/reciclar-no-te-hace-ecologista-10-habitos-que-creias-sostenibles-y-no-lo-son/100568248/image/100568252

Reciclar no te hace ecologista: 10 hábitos que creías sostenibles y no lo son La Comisión Europea ha plantado cara al 'greenwashing' y se propone legislar sobre el falso posicionamiento ecológico que en los últimos años han tomado cientos de marcas, muchas de ellas de moda. Pero, entre tanto, ...

26/04/2023

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65339934

There’s growing concern that the oceans are heating up quickly – and scientists are unsure of the implications.

19/04/2023

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ancient-egypt-shipping-mining-farming-economy-pyramids-180956619/

Ancient Egyptians leveraged a massive shipping, mining and farming economy to propel their civilization forward

05/04/2023

https://www.gerio.cat/noticia/1593184/descobreixen-una-gran-residencia-aristocratica-indigeta-del-segle-v-iv-ac-al-jaciment-dullastret

30/03/2023

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64703976

A process that turns waste plastic and CO2 into fuel has been developed at Cambridge University.

15/03/2023

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-modern-glacier-mars-equator-ice.html

In a groundbreaking announcement at the 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in The Woodlands, Texas, scientists revealed the discovery of a relict glacier near the equator of Mars. Located in Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus at coordinates 7° 33' S, 93° 14' W, this finding is significant as...

05/03/2023

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64192508

Global temperatures and rain patterns are affected by climate phenomena known as El Niño/La Niña.

10/01/2023

https://www.ccma.cat/324/descobert-el-secret-del-formigo-roma-per-durar-millennis-les-esquerdes-es-curen-soles/noticia/3205543/

L'ús de calç a altes temperatures confereix una propietat única al ciment que explicaria que edificis com el Panteó hagin arribat als nostres dies

10/01/2023

Our defence editor picks seven good books on spying

03/01/2023

The results are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

31/12/2022

Els ajuntaments més generosos són els de Sant Antoni de Vilamajor, Vallgorguina i Sant Feliu de Buixalleu

28/12/2022

La marca de una tormenta solar grabada en objetos de madera permite fechar un yacimiento nórdico en Canadá con enorme precisión