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Puerto Rico: Island of Neurobiology

Submitted on 18 November 2009 - 1:17am

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In Puerto Rico, there are over 50 laboratories that investigate how the nervous system works. This article is part of CienciaPR's collaboration with Dialogo, the University of Puerto Rico's newspaper.

Barnacles and blood clots

Submitted on 16 November 2009 - 12:28pm

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Scientists from the University of Puerto Rico and members of CienciaPR collaborate in a study that finds that barnacle glue formation is almost identical to blood clot formation. This article is part of CienciaPR's collaboration with El Nuevo Dia.

Neuronal exploration

Submitted on 28 October 2009 - 6:21pm

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At the University of Puerto Rico researchers investigate many aspects of neuronal function, from how they migrate to how they establish connections. This article was published in El Nuevo Día as part of CienciaPR's ongoing collaboration with this newspaper.

Demystifying Bats in Puerto Rico

Submitted on 8 February 2008 - 1:25pm

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Puerto Rico has 13 bat species, which represent the only group of native mammals in the Island and are very important for the ecoloical balance in Puerto Rico. lógico de Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican scientist Angelo Soto Centeno, graduated from the Interamerican University, dedicates his life to understanding the bats' feeding habits, how they interact with the environment and how demographic expansion and deforestation has affected them.

Criticizing the scientific method

Submitted on 15 January 2008 - 11:03am

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The scientific method is commonly portayed as a series of special steps that scientists follow in order to build an objective knowledge of nature. However, on the contrary to popular belief, experimentation is not the only way to do science. In this article, part of CienciaPR's collaboration with El Nuevo Día, Wilson González Espada explains a little bit about how real science is not linear, but cyclic.

Every rule has an exception

Submitted on 14 January 2008 - 10:10am

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When we were kids we learned that: "If you get close to something hot, you'll feel the heat; if you get closer, you'll get burned." Something curious about this "rule" is that if we generalize it, we could be totally wrong. Ask yourself, for example: now that we are feeling the coolness (or bitter cold) of the winter, is the Sun closer or further away from the Earth? If we follow our "rule" we would say that the Sun is further from Earth. But, we are wrong. In this article, part of CienciaPR's collaboration with El Nuevo Día, Wilson González Espada explains why.

You sleep with them every night

Submitted on 10 September 2007 - 8:17pm

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With a wipe, a duster or the vacuum cleaner, we spend hours trying to eliminate dust from our homes. What most people don’t know is that part of the dust at home is made of pieces of our own skin. As the body creates new skin cells, we get rid of the old, dead cells, which become food for microscopic animals called dust mites. This article is part of our collaboration with El Nuevo Dia.

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