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Watch the hand sanitizer use

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Over-using hand sanitizers has been linked with the emergences of antibiotic resistant "super bugs". So, to be safe, always wash your hands with soap and water often and only use hand-santizer as a compliment to them.


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The Physics of Baseball

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Mónica I. Feliú Mójer

This article explains the science behind the baseball game.

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Plan to save the Puerto Rican parrot

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Scientists at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez turned to crowdfunding to finance the sequencing of the Puerto Rican parrot's genome.


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Puerto Rican lizards adapt to Florida's weather

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Dr. Wilson González-Espada

Dr. Manuel Leal and collegueas from Duke University studied how the Puerto Rican lizard (Anolis cristatellus) has adapted to the weather in Florida. They estimated that it took approximately 35 evolutive generations to adjust to colder temperatures.

 

 

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The dark side of hand sanitizers

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The use of antimicrobial hand sanitizers has been on the rise around the world and in Puerto Rico. Instead of protecting people, their overuse could lead to antibiotic resistance and the evolution of new "bugs" that could be harder to control...

The author is a doctoral candidate in environmental microbiology at the University of Arizona and a member of Ciencia Puerto Rico.


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Ethical dilemmas of modern science

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This article discusses several ethical issues raised by recent science and technology advances. Some of the issues discussed are hacking into medical devices, climate change, cars that drive themselves, and more. These dilemmas were published by the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values at the University of Notre Dame. You can read that list here.

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Puerto Rican scientists study Huntington's disease

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Sulay Rivera-Sánchez

A group of scientist at the Medical Sciences Campus (RCM), University of Puerto Rico (UPR) are studying Huntington's disease. The team is lead by Dr.Sylvette Ayala-Peña.

Ther author is a doctral student at RCM-UPR and a member of Ciencia Puerto Rico.

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"Channel Earth" is turned off

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Until recently, people where able to experience space the way an astronaut would by watching the Dish Network Earth Channel, a 24 hour, seven days a week feed that broadcast directly from the commercial satellite Echostar 11. The author explains how the images where captured and transimitted to Earth. The camera stopped working recently, but fortunately for space aficionados, videos are still available on Youtube.


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The democratization of education

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Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have gained a lot of popularity in the last few years. Among other things, they allow one teacher to reach thousands of students with one class. The author reviews the offerings of three of the most populare MOOC programs: KhanAcademyedX, and Coursera.

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