Un antiguo híbrido de tomates y plantas parecidas a la papa puede haber dado origen a este famoso alimento como lo conocemos hoy, según sugiere un nuevo estudio.

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01.08.2025

What’s a Potato? A Nine-Million-Year-Old Tomato - The New York Times

An ancient hybrid of tomatoes and potato-like plants may have given rise to the modern spud, a new study suggests.

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29.07.2025

Grand Canyon Fossils Offer Clues of When Complex Life Appeared - The New York Times

Rocks gathered along the Colorado River contained evidence of a bustling community of animals in an ancient sea.

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10.07.2025

Opinion | This ‘Trial of the Century’ Is 100. Its Lessons Could Save the Democrats. - The New York Times

A hundred years later, many religious Americans in rural areas still feel that the cosmopolitan leaders of the Democratic Party look down on them.

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28.06.2025

Human Activity Is Driving the Evolution of Wild Animals, New Studies Find - The New York Times

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild animals.

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19.06.2025

When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere - The New York Times

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.

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20.05.2025

Should the U.S. Government Fund Scientific Research? - The New York Times

American investment in science has led to important breakthroughs, but the Trump administration is slashing its funding. What is your reaction?

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25.04.2025

Do You Think There Is Life on Other Planets? - The New York Times

Researchers say they have found the strongest indication yet of extraterrestrial life on a massive planet light-years away. What’s your reaction?

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22.04.2025

Should We Revive Extinct Animals? - The New York Times

Scientists recently bred animals that carry genes of dire wolves, a species that went extinct 13,000 years ago. Should we applaud the achievement? Or be wary?

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03.04.2025

Ralph Holloway, Anthropologist Who Studied Brain’s Evolution, Dies at 90 - The New York Times

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.

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01.04.2025

Eating ‘Family Style’ May Have Set the Stage for Life as We Know It - The New York Times

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

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24.03.2025

Book Review: ‘The Social Genome,’ by Dalton Conley; ‘The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire,’ by Henry Gee - The New York Times

Parents looking to promote health and intelligence in their children can pick and choose their embryos now. There could be more downsides than we think.

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19.02.2025

The Gene That Made Mice Squeak Strangely - The New York Times

A new study suggests that the NOVA1 gene may have been a key player in the evolution of human language.

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17.02.2025

What’s Going On in This Graph? | Feb. 26, 2025 - The New York Times

What do you notice about the percentage change in the number of foreign-born and native-born workers in the United States? What do you wonder?

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17.02.2025

What’s Going On in This Graph? | Feb. 12, 2025 - The New York Times

What do you notice about the average earnings of college athletes? What do you wonder?

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30.01.2025

How Birds Survive Winter Cold: Adaptations and Behavioral Strategies - The New York Times

Their feathers, roosting behaviors and adaptability help birds survive the cold, “nature’s proving ground.”

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21.01.2025

Do Chimps Who Pee Together Stay Together? - The New York Times

Scientists suspect that contagious urination, a behavior they observed among a troop of apes in Japan, may play an important role in primate social life.

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18.12.2024

This Brazilian Velvet Ant Is So Dark That It’s Super-Black - The New York Times

Scientists found that the dark markings on a species of fluffy wasp reflected less than 1 percent of light.

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27.11.2024

La propagación explosiva de los pepinillos del diablo - The New York Times

Un grupo de científicos dice haber descubierto cómo los pepinillos del diablo logran disparar sus semillas hasta unos 12 metros de distancia.

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26.11.2024

Squirting Cucumbers Shoot Their Seeds Like Botanical Bombardiers - The New York Times

Scientists say they’ve worked out how the plant can fire its seeds up to almost 40 feet.

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26.10.2024

The Early Bird Got the Cicada, Then an Evolutionary Air War Started - The New York Times

Fossils reveal that prehistoric cicadas’ wings evolved to help them evade hungry predators with feathers and beaks, scientists say.

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10.10.2024

Should All Middle Schools Teach Algebra? - The New York Times

Less than a quarter of all students in the United States take algebra before ninth grade. Should more have the opportunity?

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27.09.2024

This Fish Evolved Legs That It Uses to Taste Stuff on the Seafloor - The New York Times

While the sea robin has legs, it still doesn’t need a bicycle.

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18.09.2024

Tiny, Tasty Lizards Scuba-Dive for Their Survival - The New York Times

Almost every animal in the rainforest enjoys snacking on water anoles, but slippery skin and an ability to carry an air bubble underwater help them survive.

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29.08.2024

Our Bigger Brains Came With a Downside: Faster Aging - The New York Times

A study comparing chimpanzee and human brains suggests that the regions that grew the most during human evolution are the most susceptible to aging.

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22.08.2024

How Did the First Cells Arise? With a Little Rain, Study Finds. - The New York Times

Researchers stumbled upon an ingredient that can stabilize droplets of genetic material: water.

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14.08.2024

I Am the Walrus but This Fossil Was Not - The New York Times

Although an extinct animal was from a different group of marine mammals, an examination of fossils showed it evolved a way of eating that was very similar to that of modern walruses.

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11.08.2024

Book Review: ‘Keeping the Faith,’ by Brenda Wineapple - The New York Times

In “Keeping the Faith,” Brenda Wineapple finds an ongoing battle over the soul of America in a century-old trial.

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24.07.2024

Secrets Emerge From a Fossil’s Taco Shell-Like Cover - The New York Times

An examination of an aquatic, shrimplike creature that lived half a billion years ago offers insight into how arthropods with mandibles became so common.

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12.07.2024

Early Humans Left Africa Much Earlier Than Previously Thought - The New York Times

Scientists have found evidence of several waves of migration by looking at the genetic signatures of human interbreeding with Neanderthals.

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04.07.2024

Bigheaded Salamander-like Fossil Turns Up in a Place No One Expected it - The New York Times

An ancient aquatic predator resembling a giant salamander turned up in an African fossil deposit, suggesting unwritten chapters of how animals moved onto land.

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21.06.2024

How Flounder Wound Up With an Epic Side-Eye - The New York Times

Flatfish offer an evolutionary puzzle: How did one eye gradually migrate to the other side?

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09.06.2024

Book Review: ‘Origin Story,’ by Howard Markel - The New York Times

In a new book, the medical historian Howard Markel homes in on Darwin’s physical and emotional travails — and the colleagues who rallied to his cause.

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01.06.2024

Parasitismo sexual: así conquistaron los peces anzuelo el fondo marino - The New York Times

Un nuevo estudio sugiere que los peces anzuelo y los rape se aprovecharon de una extraña estrategia sexual para garantizar su reproducción.

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30.05.2024

Unconventional Sex Let Anglerfish Conquer the Deep Ocean - The New York Times

During a chaotic period some 50 million years ago, the strange deep-sea creatures left the ocean bottom and thrived by clamping onto their mates.

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Meet the Beautiful Dragonfly That Thrives in Your Pollution - The New York Times

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How Birds Survive Winter Cold: Adaptations and Behavioral Strategies - The New York Times

Do Chimps Who Pee Together Stay Together? - The New York Times

This Brazilian Velvet Ant Is So Dark That It’s Super-Black - The New York Times

La propagación explosiva de los pepinillos del diablo - The New York Times

Squirting Cucumbers Shoot Their Seeds Like Botanical Bombardiers - The New York Times

The Early Bird Got the Cicada, Then an Evolutionary Air War Started - The New York Times

Should All Middle Schools Teach Algebra? - The New York Times

This Fish Evolved Legs That It Uses to Taste Stuff on the Seafloor - The New York Times

Tiny, Tasty Lizards Scuba-Dive for Their Survival - The New York Times

Our Bigger Brains Came With a Downside: Faster Aging - The New York Times

How Did the First Cells Arise? With a Little Rain, Study Finds. - The New York Times

I Am the Walrus but This Fossil Was Not - The New York Times

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Secrets Emerge From a Fossil’s Taco Shell-Like Cover - The New York Times

Early Humans Left Africa Much Earlier Than Previously Thought - The New York Times

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