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Martha, the last passenger pigeon (1885 - September 1, 1914) Photo by Enno Meyer at the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens Published by R. W. Shufeldt (1921) http://fotorollo.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/las-ultimas-fotografias-de-la-ultima-paloma-viajera/
La calvicie resulta de la interacción compleja entre al menos dos genes, factores fisiológicos y condiciones ambientales. La alta incidencia de la alopecia podría ser el resultado de la baja...
Dieciséis millones de hombres en el centro de Asia comparten un tipo de cromosoma Y que se originó en Mongolia hace un milenio. La expansión del imperio de Gengis Kan y sus descendientes podría...
La supuesta "ardilla dientes de sable" es en realidad un mamífero de casi 100 millones de años cuyo descubrimiento ayudará a entender la evolución de los mamíferos en la era de los dinosaurios.
Sin artes, sin letras; sin sociedad; y lo que es peor de todo, el miedo perpetuo y el peligro de una muerte violenta; la vida del hombre, solitaria, miserable, cruel, brutal y corta. Thomas Hobbes,...
35 years of "The Martian face". On July 25, 1976, NASA's Viking 1 obtained an image of the Cydonia region of Mars that showed an apparent human face (left). More recent images with much higher resolution, like this one taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (right) have shown that the "face" is nothing but an optical illusion, or, more properly, a case of pareidolia. Photos: NASA.
La paleobiología se compara en ocasiones con la investigación forense. En el estudio de la ecología de los organismos extintos, como en la reconstrucción de la escena de un crimen, es necesario...
100 years ago. July 24, 1911, Hiram Bingham, a part time lecturer at Yale University, announced the discovery of Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas", near Cusco, Perú. Photo: H. Bingham.
On July 22, 1994, "W", the last of the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter, ending a spectacular sequence of collisions that had begun on July 16. This image from NASA taken in July 1994 shows the scars left by the comet's fragments on the southern hemisphere of the giant planet.
The Extinction Gallery: Great Auk, by John Gerrard Keulemans (1842 - 1912)
On July 3, 1844, the last breeding pair of great auks (Pinguinus impennis) was killed by hunters, who also smashed the only egg in the nest, located in the remote island of Eldey, Iceland.
June 30, 1908: The Tunguska event. A large meteoroid or comet fragment (some tens of meters wide) entering earth's atmosphere produced a powerful explosion that destroyed more than 2,000 sq. km of Siberian forest in in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.
El Naadam es el festival cultural más importante en Mongolia. Durante tres días, cientos de contendientes participan en “los tres juegos de los hombres” que dan vida al festival: arquería, carreras...
MAHALANOBIS DISTANCE
June 29, 1893. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist and mathematician, was born. He is known for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical metric of difference that takes into account the correlation between variables.
June 26, 1730. Charles Messier, French astronomer, was born in Badonviller in the Lorraine region. He catalogued a series of nebula and star clusters known as Messier objects, which are shown in this composite image created by Thierry Lombry.
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I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"
Alan Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954)
The May 22, 1960, earthquake in Valdivia, Chile, is the most intense recorded to date, rating 9.5 in the Richter scale.
Photo credit: Pierre St. Amand, NOAA
On May 20, 1570, Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is published in Antwerp. The Theatrum, consisting of 53 maps, is considered the first modern atlas.