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Celebrated Mexican archaeologist wins major Spanish award
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, a celebrated Mexican archaeologist who led the excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, won this year's Princess of Asturias award in the social sciences category, the Spanish foundation ...
Archaeology
May 18, 2022
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Speak more Spanish in public, urge scholars, to combat stigma in US
In 2018, a Montana border patrol agent asked two U.S. citizens in a grocery store parking lot for their government IDs. "I saw that you guys were speaking Spanish, which is very unheard of up here," he reportedly told them. ...
Social Sciences
Oct 1, 2021
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Will the end of the COVID-19 pandemic usher in a second Roaring '20s?
While some places remain mired in the third wave of the pandemic, others are taking their first tentative steps towards normality. Since April 21, Denmark has allowed indoor service at restaurants and cafes, and football ...
Social Sciences
Apr 30, 2021
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Spanish language increasingly more relevant to presidential elections
Discourse in and about Spanish was present on both sides of the political spectrum, more so leading up to the 2016 presidential election than in previous cycles, according to research conducted by faculty at Binghamton University, ...
Political science
Jul 1, 2020
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Governments knew a pandemic was a threat: Here's why they weren't better prepared
Most people think or at least hope their government is doing a good job in the face of COVID-19, according to the polls. But there can be no doubt that governments around the world were ill-prepared for this pandemic.
Political science
Apr 28, 2020
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Genetic identification of human remains from the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship
It is estimated that around 114,000 people disappeared throughout Spain during the Spanish Civil War and subsequent dictatorship. Unfortunately, eight decades on, only a small percentage of these people have been found or ...
Biotechnology
Jan 22, 2020
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Read to kids in Spanish; it'll help their English
A new study has found that children who had strong early reading skills in their native Spanish language when they entered kindergarten experienced greater growth in their ability to read English from kindergarten through ...
Education
Oct 15, 2019
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Study analyzes pre-installed software on Android devices and its privacy risks for users
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the IMDEA Networks Institute, in collaboration with the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at Berkeley (USA) and Stony Brook University of New York (USA), have carried ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 20, 2019
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Scientists investigate the uncontrolled expansion of invasive blue crabs in the Mediterranean
The American blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) is an invasive voracious alien species, with no known predators and with high reproductive and survival rates, which has now spread throughout the Mediterranean. Since it appeared ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2019
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