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The "potentially pandemic" strain of flu they have found in China would not make the news under normal circumstances.

Yesterday the news broke: a group of Chinese researchers published in PNAS, one of the most prestigious magazines in the world, that they had discovered a new strain of influenza with "pandemic potential". The flu variant was infecting each time

China just approved a coronavirus vaccine for military use: what we know about the CanSino vaccine

The Chinese military has been authorized to use the vaccine developed by CanSino Biologics and its own researchers from the research institute of the Academy of Military Sciences, according to the company itself. A month ago, the company

The day-to-day life of the coronavirus "tracker": this is how those who keep track of infections in Spain work

They are not detectives, but almost. Trackers are an essential part of preventing the spread of the coronavirus. They are nurses who are dedicated to investigating all the people with whom a person who has tested has been in contact

IPhone 12 will not include the charger in the box, according to Ming-Chi Kuo

If the story continues and if there are no long delays, at the end of the year we should know the iPhone 12. Little by little, these devices have begun to be drawn based on leaks and rumors, one of the most recent being that ensures that

The new Telework Law, explained: all the changes that the Government is preparing to regulate remote work

The confinement has multiplied by three the number of employees who work remotely, up to 30.2%, according to Eurofund data. To adapt to this way of working, which with the pandemic has passed its acid test, the Ministry of Labor prepares

Mac ARMs challenge skeptics: First tests of the Mac mini for developers leave Surface Pro X biting the dust

The transition from Macs to "Apple Silicon" represents a radical change for those computers, which leave Intel's chips behind. The change raises many questions, but one is obvious: how powerful will those chips and Macs be? Now we begin to catch a glimpse

The new sprouts begin to have one factor in common: they have been caused by contact indoors

"It is vital to promote the outdoors as much as possible," explained virologist and CSIC researcher Margarita de Val. And it is that if we look at the most extensive studies, we see that "most clusters originate in closed spaces and in

Who is telling the best story now is the comic and the manga: 30 recommendations to start

The comic has amply demonstrated its ability to become a medium and tool to develop fictional universes in which the limit is only in the imagination of its creators. However, this has not prevented some authors from

The Spanish Agency for Data Protection complains to the Government: its collaboration in the contact tracking app was late

Yesterday the Government of Spain announced the launch of a pilot project in La Gomera to evaluate for two weeks the operation of the COVID-19 notification exposure and contact tracking application. In that announcement the Secretary

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I have looked at all the data that Google has about me, and I confirm that it is the definitive Big Brother

The Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018 made us all become more aware of our privacy. In general, we always tend to focus on Facebook, when there are other companies that are also collecting all your personal data

Spain will start in La Gomera the pilot phase of its contact tracking app, it will use the API of Apple and Google

The Government of Spain has announced the launch of a pilot phase that will allow evaluating the operation of the mobile application for notification of exposure (or contact tracking) that will try to help minimize and control the impact of

The creator of SegWay is now going for the manufacture of human organs, and believes that in ten years this will be an everyday revolution

Dean Kamen kept meeting a young man in a wheelchair who was constantly limited by urban architecture. He began to solve the problem and created a wheelchair that would end up leading to his particular revolution for

For months we feared that the children were a "time bomb" in the COVID broadcast: we were wrong

From almost the beginning, one of the great unknowns of the virus was children. Even today they are. Wherever you look, regardless of the country or the continent, children are a striking minority of COVID-19 patients: between 0.3 and 5% of cases. And that

Dexamethasone: what do we know about what, according to the University of Oxford, is the "first drug capable of reducing the number of deaths from COVID"

A cheap, accessible and well-known drug has just hit the treatment table against COVID19. According to the conclusions that have been made public by researchers from Oxford and the British NHS, low-dose dexamethasone

Beijing closes in the middle of an "extremely severe" outbreak and mobilizes all available resources by going into "war mode"

It begins so. With a handful of cases around a market or a virus gently laying on a cutting board. This is how it started in Wuhan and, apparently, this is how it started in Beijing. After finding more than a hundred new cases of coronavirus

Why salads are the biggest source of food poisoning and what to do to avoid it

Just over a year ago, the United States was experiencing the largest E. coli outbreak since 2006; affecting at least 98 people in more than 20 states. The origin was a bagged romaine lettuce. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. Vegetables and fresh fruit

The most important vaccine to stop the second wave is not COVID: it is the flu

Spain, like most of Europe, is about to emerge from confinement and enter what has been called the 'new normal'. However, the near future is far from being a quiet and safe place. Quite the contrary, the unknowns that

Masks gain strength as the most effective means against coronavirus in an increasingly rare scientific climate

"Wearing face masks in public is the most effective means of preventing human [coronavirus] transmission. Along with social distancing, quarantine, and contact tracing, [face masks] are the most likely way to