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Researchers find treatment target for drug-resistant epilepsy

Published on: March 14, 2023
17:18

Washington, Mar 14 (Prensa Latina) Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and colleagues have found a small molecule that may help treat people suffering from epilepsy whose conditions has become resistant to the benzodiazepine drugs usually used in managing seizures, a specialized source published Tuesday.

Monkeys accidentally make stone flakes resemble ancient hominid tools

Published on: March 13, 2023
14:01

Washington, Mar 13 (Prensa Latina) Monkeys in southern Thailand use rocks to pound open oil palm nuts, inadvertently shattering stone pieces off their makeshift nutcrackers, flakes that resemble some sharp-edged stone tools presumed to have been created on purpose by ancient hominids, researchers say.

Scientists call for global push to wipe out space junk

Published on: March 10, 2023
16:09

Washington, Mar 10 (Prensa Latina) An international team of scientists has called for a legally-binding treaty to guarantee Earth´s orbit is not irreparably harmed by the future expansion of the global space industry.

Meta-display concept could retire LCD, LEDs panels in big-screen TVs

Published on: February 23, 2023
17:36

London, Feb 23 (Prensa Latina) A research team from the UK's Nottingham Trent University, the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales Canberra has developed a proof-of-concept display technology that could replace the LCD panels common to many of today's big-screen TVs.

7 new spider species found in Israeli caves

Published on: February 20, 2023
17:27

Washington, Feb 20 (Prensa Latina) A team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Madison-Wisconsin has found seven spider species previously unknown to sciences in the depths of Israeli caves, with the surprise finding that they are evolutionarily closer to arachnids found in southern Europe than to their neighbors at cave entrances in Israel.

Fossils of 340-pound giant penguin found in New Zealand

Published on: February 9, 2023
18:30

London, Feb 9 (Prensa Latina) An international team of scientists have unearthed the fossilized remains of the largest ever known penguin on Earth, a 340-pound (150 kilograms) behemoth that glided through the oceans around what is now New Zealand more than 500 million years ago.

Cuba and the US blockade in a master’s program in Morocco

Published on: February 6, 2023
13:32

Rabat, Jan 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuba, the foreign policy of the Revolution and the United States blockade are included today in the curricular design of a master's program in International Relations at the Mohamed V University in Rabat, Morocco.

Life in a violent nation can be years shorter, much less predictable

Published on: February 3, 2023
18:21

London, Feb 3 (Prensa Latina) Life expectancy for young people can be as much as 14 years shorter in violent countries compared to peaceful nations, according to a study from an international team led by Oxford´s Leverhulme Center for Demographic Sciences.

U.S. scientists identify oldest bone spear point in the Americas

Published on: February 3, 2023
17:59

Washington, Feb 3 (Prensa Latina) A team of scientists led by a Texas A&M University professor has identified the Manis bone projectile point as the oldest weapon made of bone ever found in the Americas at 13,900 years.

New croakless frog species discovered in Africa

Published on: February 3, 2023
17:38

Washington, Feb 3 (Prensa Latina) Scientists at the University of Cincinnati, United States, have discovered a new species of voiceless frog in Tanzania, the journal Plos One published Friday.

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