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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the scientific arm of the United Nations, has announced this Thursday that temperatures can be expected to continue rising, after registering last month as the hottest June in the history of which there are records and two average daily temperature records this week. "The exceptional warming in June and the beginning of July have occurred when the El Niño phenomenon begins to develop, which is expected to increase the heat both on land and in the oceans and lead to more extreme temperatures and marine heat waves" , has predicted the director of Climate Services…

A few ago 15 yearsA team of archaeologists He made an extraordinary find. I dealt with one tomb of more than 5,000 years old located in the Seville municipality of Valencia in which the remains of an individual surrounded by ostentatious grave goods; from tusks of Asian and African elephants to amber from Sicily and a powerful ivory dagger. At the time, experts considered that this subject wrapped in luxuries must be a man. But as a new analysis of the remains reveals, that person buried among so many honors was a woman; now baptized as the 'ivory lady'. The…

people with obsessive compulsive disorder (also known as OCD) tend to repeat a series of behaviors, such as washing their hands, arranging objects very strictly or checking over and over again if they have closed a door or turned off a light. The scientific community has been investigating this type of behavior for a long time to understand its origin and, above all, how to deal with it. This Tuesday, a team of researchers from the University of Cambridge publishes a study in which, for the first time, it is possible to unravel brain mechanisms Behind this type of compulsive…

Space has become the new playground for the richest men on the planet. For years now, tycoons like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, two of the richest men in the world, have dedicated part of their fortune to promote own space programs. In mid-2021, for example, the former Amazon CEO launched his company Blue Origin's first manned space mission. Now the turn of another rich man has come. This Thursday, around 5:00 p.m. (Spanish peninsular time), the British billionaire Richard Branson will launch one of its Virgin Galactic spacecraft into space for the first time. The mission, known as 'Galactic…