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The countdown has already begun. Spain finalizes preparations for the miura 1 launch: he first space rocket 'made in Spain' and the first european vehicle of this type designed to be reusable. The launch of this project, scheduled for the next few days, will mean a turning point for the Spanish aerospace industry. Above all because, according to its promoters, it will be the first time in history that Spain will have a own vehicle to travel to space. "This could be the beginning of a new era," they argue from PLD spacethe company in charge of this project, while…

Harvard University has published a 85 year study in which they tackled jobs were more unhappy employees. Far from being classist, he analyzes from the poorest neighborhoods in the United States to the richest, to which the students of this university belong precisely. To the researchers' surprise, the jobs with the most unhappy employees were not those with the worst pay or conditions, but rather the lonely ones. The key is not to perform one task or another, but if in the company. What makes people the most unhappy are the guards, the night shifts, and so on. Related news…

In a discreet corner of the children's oncology laboratory of the Sant Joan de Deu Hospitalprotected as if it were a true treasure, is the largest bank of childhood tumors in all of Spain. It is an 'archive' started almost twenty years ago and which, today, has samples of more than 4,200 boys and girls with pediatric cancer. "He is a real treasure for science. Thanks to these samples we can continue advancing in the investigation of these diseases, improve the prognosis of patients and accelerate the search for treatments", he explains, with a didactic spirit, cristina jouthe person in…

An international team of scientists from different disciplines has joined forces and, for the first time in history, has managed to 'resurrect' molecules up to 100,000 years old. As published by the authors of this achievement in an article by the 'Science' magazinethe union of knowledge archaeologists, bioinformaticians, molecular biologists, and chemists has made it possible to turn laboratories into true time machines, travel to the Ice Age and discover, for example, several extinct microorganism species which were unknown until now. The investigation, published this Thursday, is based in dental remains of 12 Neanderthals They lived between 100,000 and 40,000…