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“A sonic boom rattled the window panes of the city. It was the sound of a supersonic plane, one of the few still flying in those days. People stopped to look up at the sky, surprised to see such a powerful and fast aircraft, something that had been a rarity in recent years," writes the chat artificial intelligence ChatGPT-3. Break the sound barrier without crossing the sky 2023 is the year that a sleek new supersonic plane, endorsed by NASA, will take to the skies with passengers on board. But X-59 it will not bring down the glass of city…

To understand the expansion of the avian complaint, it must be emphasized that "it is not a single virusbut of a very broad set of viruses with their respective lineages and coincidences", explains beer martin, director of the Institute for Diagnostic Virology (IVD) of the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut in Germany. The wide genetic variety would explain, on the one hand, why the infections would spread so quickly and, on the other, why they would manage to infect more and more species of animals. One of the hypotheses to explain the real explosion of cases of bird flu has to do with the…

Because we get old? In the last ten years, this question has been answered with nine keys. But since yesterday there are twelve. A study led by the professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Oviedo carlos lopez otín and the researcher at the University of Paris guido cromer has defined three new molecular and cellular processes that cause human aging. They are the alterations in autophagy, which is an efficient process of cellular and molecular recycling; chronic inflammation, which has significant consequences for the body; and dysbiosis, which is the loss of dialogue between the human…

Chondritic meteorites, rocks that formed long before Earth existed, could play a fundamental role in the origin of life in the universe, and point to its ubiquity, including on other planetary bodies in our Solar System. The exceptionality of these unaltered space travelers, who impacted the Earth, makes them the object of meticulous study in multiple laboratories around the world, including the White Room for Meteoritics and Returned Samples of the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE - CSIC). Our studies at the ICE-CSIC, together with the experiments carried out in two separate works in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of…