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A vaccine against dengue in times of crisis: How, where and when?

The drug Qdenga, which has begun to be distributed massively in Brazil, could be a useful tool against a disease on the rise in Latin America

27/04/2024

Elisabeth Bik, expert in scientific integrity: ‘We need to slow down scientific publishing’

The Dutch microbiologist has been voluntarily searching for duplicate, erroneous or retouched academic images for more than 10 years and warning universities and scientific journals about it

26/04/2024

Excessive use of words like ‘commendable’ and ‘meticulous’ suggests ChatGPT has been used in thousands of scientific studies

A London librarian has analyzed millions of articles in search of uncommon terms abused by artificial intelligence programs

25/04/2024

Earth’s protective sky is at least 3.7 billion years old

A group of scientists finds the oldest signal of the planet’s magnetic field in the the Isua Greenstone Belt in Greenland

25/04/2024

The cycling revolution in Paris continues: Bicycle use now exceeds car use

A study indicates that 11.2% of trips in the French capital are made on two wheels, compared to 4.3% in four-wheel vehicles

24/04/2024

A genetic patch corrects a rare syndrome in human brain organoid grafted into a rat

The team led by Sergiu Pasca, from Stanford University, wants to test this promising strategy in children with Timothy Syndrome, which is associated with autism and epilepsy

24/04/2024

A rare mammal with a trunk-like snout and webbed feet: The Iberian desman faces extinction

The ‘Spanish platypus’ is unique to the Iberian Peninsula and a jewel of evolution that has lost up to 70% of the geographical range it occupied three decades ago

24/04/2024

Takeo Kanade, engineer: ‘Artificial vision will bring teleportation, but without decomposing your body and shipping it another place’

The Japanese researcher discusses the use of robots in surgical operations, virtualized reality and why we must be smarter and faster than malicious technologies

24/04/2024

60 is the new 50, according to science and 60-year-olds

A study indicates that the onset of old age has been pushed back due to improvements in the quality and expectancy of life, while people’s perception of the elderly has also changed

24/04/2024

Sarah Blagden, oncologist: ‘We should eventually have a vaccine that you get at age 40 that protects you from cancer’

The University of Oxford researcher is testing a revolutionary injection to prevent the appearance of lung cancer, the most common and deadly form of the disease

23/04/2024

Freddie Highmore says goodbye to ‘The Good Doctor’: ‘It has given me stability in years of great uncertainty’

In the show’s seventh and final season, the protagonist, a doctor with autism, has become a father. ‘It’s like a graduation. It’s a bittersweet sensation,’ says the actor

23/04/2024

Spanish-language music shakes off complexes and makes its mark on the global stage

In the United States, Latin music consumption registered a growth of 19.4 billion on-demand audio streams between 2021 and 2023, an increase of 24.1%

23/04/2024

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