New ‘atlas’ of respiratory infections suggests Covid is no longer just a winter virus
El País Englishby Oriol Güell Domínguez·10d ago
A comprehensive atlas of the 18 main respiratory viruses circulating in Catalonia, produced for the first time in Spain by researchers from that northeastern region, reveals that the coronavirus...
Trump says he is following Brazil’s elections ‘very closely’
El País Englishby Macarena Vidal Liy,Joan Royo Gual·10d ago
Asked by reporters about Brazil’s upcoming presidential election, to be held on Sunday amid heightened tension between Washington and the leftist government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, U.S.
Eric Sadin: ‘AI reeks of death’
El País Englishby Daniel Verdú·10d ago
Éric Sadin gets up and paces around the living room of his Paris apartment when an argument excites him. His own voice urges him to do so.
Garry Kasparov, threatened with death by Putin’s circle, ties his security to Ukraine’s victory
El País Englishby Leontxo García·10d ago
Garry Kasparov, 63, is the only one still alive of three very prominent opponents of Vladimir Putin who were threatened in 2012; the other two were Boris Nemtsov, murdered near the Kremlin in 2015...
A living tissue factory: printed cells to create everything from bone marrow to lab meat
El País Englishby Michaela Nesvarova·10d ago
Nature has perfected the art of creating living cells over billions of years. A team of researchers is now learning from that process and looking for ways to speed it up.
Brett Christophers, economic geographer: ‘In contemporary capitalism, the right to housing does not exist’
El País Englishby Lluís Pellicer Mateu·10d ago
Brett Christophers, 55, has spent years studying the strategies of large corporations. He began by examining big investment banks such as JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.
Laura and Cristina, a Brazilian couple with four kids: ‘If Bolsonaro wins we will be a bunker of resistance’
El País Englishby Joan Royo Gual·10d ago
It’s Saturday night in Rio de Janeiro’s financial district and there are nothing but closed offices and dark streets, but around a corner, a three-story house lit in the colors of the rainbow...
The just-world hypothesis and other mental traps that guide us, but that we can avoid
El País Englishby Olga Carmona·11d ago
We like to believe we are rational. That we make decisions based on data, that we analyze reality objectively and that our opinions stem from clear thinking.
María Corina Machado’s party stakes its strategy on the uncertain return of its leader
El País Englishby Alonso Moleiro·11d ago
Vente Venezuela, the party founded by María Corina Machado, is preparing again for the imminent return of its leader despite delays, skepticism, and uncertainty.
Tanker transits through Strait of Hormuz approach prewar figures
El País Englishby Ignacio Fariza ,Nuria Salobral·11d ago
The Strait of Hormuz is far from what it was before Donald Trump blew everything out of the water: a maritime route that, although located in a hotspot region, allowed the free and safe passage of...
Trump rides to the rescue for Republicans in the midterms but Paxton doubts his effectiveness
El País Englishby Patricia Clarembaux·11d ago
President Donald Trump told reporters this week he would embark on a 32-day campaign tour to try to save Republican races ahead of the midterm elections.
Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton clash in CNN debate on economy, AI, and ICE raids in California governor’s race
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·11d ago
It was the first face-to-face between the two men vying to govern California, the most populous state in the United States, with more than 39 million residents, just over a month before the midterm...
Panic aboard flight FZ1073 to Tel Aviv: ‘We’ve just neutralized the terrorist. We need help’
El País Englishby Antonio Pita·11d ago
It was 8.22 a.m. on Wednesday when, aboard Flydubai flight FZ1073 between Dubai and Tel Aviv, the aircraft suddenly lost altitude, began jerking violently and a woman in the front started...
Christa Pike still alive after receiving two lethal injections in Tennessee
El País Englishby Abel Fernández·11d ago
Christa Pike is still alive after receiving two doses of lethal injection on Wednesday afternoon, according to her attorneys in an emergency motion filed to once again halt her execution.
Attempted hijacking of Tel Aviv-bound plane revives specter of threat dating back to the 1970s
El País Englishby Antonio Pita·11d ago
The foiled hijacking of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv carrying 174 passengers — 166 of them Israelis — on Wednesday has revived the specter of earlier hijackings (mostly attempted) of aircraft...
Spanish-Argentine expedition to verify whether a geoglyph located in the Andes via Google Earth is genuine
El País Englishby Vicente Olaya·11d ago
The Dictionary of the Spanish Language explains that a geoglyph is a “large figure on slopes or in wide plains, carved directly into the ground or made with stones, especially by prehistoric...
Surviving Hurricane Otis: Mexican director Jorge Michel Grau crafts ambitious film about two sailors who lived to tell the tale
El País Englishby Beatriz Guillén·11d ago
Three years ago, a category-five hurricane devastated the Mexican resort of Acapulco. Amid images of a shattered city, the impossible emerged: the story of sailors who survived Otis on their boats.
One in seven Latin American children threatened by El Niño: ‘This crisis can be mitigated’
El País Englishby Noor Mahtani Mahtani·11d ago
This is the driest year on record in Tegucigalpa. Eighty percent of Honduran territory is on red alert, and the capital has had a potable water rationing system every 12 days for a month.
Charles Spencer: ‘The tragedy of the royal family was not knowing how to embrace the opportunity that my sister Diana represented’
El País Englishby Rafa De Miguel·12d ago
Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, has decided to record his memories and, in some way, also preserve the public memory of his sister, Lady Diana.
The case of Christa Pike, the first woman due to be executed in Tennessee in over 200 years
El País Englishby Abel Fernández·12d ago
The state of Tennessee is preparing to execute a woman who was sentenced to death for the murder of another student when she was 18.
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