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Why do animals have 'legs' and tables too? This is how all the world's languages reuse words
1+ hour, 12+ min ago (366+ words) Diari ARA Most of the world's languages use the same patterns when naming the things around us An international study led by Pompeu Fabra University and published in Nature Human Behaviour states that languages tend towards lexical economy and, therefore,…...
How to save one of the most special and emblematic species of the Mediterranean from extinction
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (379+ words) Diari ARA Anna Cabr, a climate physicist and oceanographer, was the only Catalan to travel to Antarctica with the Homeward Bound 2019 project That expedition brought together 100 women scientists from around the world to study the effects of global warming at…...
Why are whales found stranded on the Catalan coast?
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1148+ words) Diari ARA Why are whales found stranded on the Catalan coast? The high dependence on maritime goods traffic threatens the Mediterranean cetacean corridor The last Friday of May, bathers and rod fishermen on Trabucador beach were stunned to see the…...
"Like an Avatar character": in the moonlight the common salamander becomes fluorescent
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (324+ words) It is one of the most iconic animals on a European scale and surely one of the most representative and studied amphibians in the world. And yet, until now it was unknown that common salamanders (Salamandra salamandra) have a very…...
The phoenix and the swan
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (859+ words) L'Informe F'nix presented this month, which warns of the impoverishment of Catalans due to our way of growing (and which confirms that our growth style is now a kind of malignant tumor), must henceforth form the basis of all political,…...
The company Colossal creates an artificial egg to incubate extinct birds like the giant moa
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (360+ words) Diari ARA The company Colossal creates an artificial egg to incubate extinct birds like the giant moa The company assures that it has already hatched a chick with this technology, which could be used to recover extinct species Barcelona The…...
Do octopuses dream like humans?
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (361+ words) Diari ARA Do octopuses dream like humans? Cephalopods are probably the most intelligent invertebrates: they hunt, play and also seem to be able to dream like us Octopuses, cuttlefish, and squids are cephalopods. The name, cephalopods, derives from the union…...
A white hunter on an immense and indescribable continent
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (469+ words) Diari ARA...
The best nature photographs of the year: five impactful images that show the beauty and fragility of the wild world
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (54+ words) The best nature photographs of the year'Diari ARA The competition brings together the best perspectives on the world and the complexity and beauty of wildlife, often little accessible to our eyes They are scenes of great visual power that document…...