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Exhibition: Now what? – Environmental challenges in a changing world – Poster for the exhibition What Now?

The Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) has organized an exhibition that can be visited until October 5 on the Avenida de la Constitución in Seville and which seeks to show the changes generated by climate change and how scientists strive to investigate global warming.

If you get angry, they retweet you more

A study by the Beihang University of China reveals that anger is the most influential emotion on social media, and suggests that messages and tweets that show anger and irritation towards news and events are more likely to go viral and spread.

24-centimeter penis bones from extinct bears found

Analyzing the penis bones of five specimens of the extinct bear Indarctos arctoides found in the Cerro de los Batallones (Madrid), scientists from the Museum of Natural Sciences-CSIC and the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont have come to the conclusion that this species it maintained long copulations and that the females probably mated with several males in the fertile period. The conclusions have been published in the journal PLOS ONE.

They find a new species of ghoul worm

A group of Spanish researchers has described a new species of marine worm that feeds on the skeleton of whales after finding the first specimen in Antarctica in 2010. This new species of ghoul (Osedax) is the sixth to be documented, and has been Unlike the previous ones in that it inhabits less depth and in colder latitudes.

The genes that decide if we are right-handed or left-handed

A new genetic study has identified the genes involved in the biological process that determines whether we are left-handed or right-handed. Specifically, British and Dutch scientists have found a relationship with the laterality of the hand and a network of genes involved in the moment when the embryo stops being a ball of cells and becomes an organism with a differentiation between the right side. (dominant in 90% of humans) and the left, which is also manifested in a difference between the cerebral hemispheres.

Voyager 1 probe reaches interstellar space

The Voyager 1 probe, from the US Space Agency (NASA), has become the first man-made object to enter interstellar space and leave the solar system, according to solid evidence echoed today by the journal Science . No less than 36 years have passed since its launch and it is located at more than 125 astronomical units, which makes it the artificial object that has moved the furthest from the Sun to date.

They try to break the speed record on a bicycle

Scottish cyclist and former world champion Graeme Obree will attempt this week to set a new speed record in land vehicles that travel thanks to human traction with the Beastie, a very unconventional bicycle shaped like a torpedo and equipped with an aerodynamic Kevlar shell and fiberglass, which he himself has designed.

The center of our galaxy is shaped like a peanut

Two teams of astronomers have used data obtained with telescopes from the European Southern Observatory to create the best three-dimensional map ever made of the central areas of the Milky Way. And so they have discovered that, from some angles, the inner regions appear to be peanut or X-shaped.

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"Don't talk to me!": Danni Büchner makes a clear announcement to hated party guests

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