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China is living a fever for cherries and Spain wants to become its great garden. It will not be easy

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He was waiting, but the Spanish cherry has just received news that had been waiting for a while: China has opened the doors of Its gigantic market. After years of negotiation between Beijing and Madrid, the Asian giant has given green light to the export of fruits cultivated in Spain, an agreement that had already been profiled In spring but that has not resolved its last fringes so far. Now there are two other goods expecting: The pistachio and the dry fig. What happened? That one of the main markets of the world, the Chinese, has just opened to the Spanish cherry. And that is an important news for several reasons. First because that vast market is made up of more than 1.4 billion of potential consumers. Second because the Asian giant seems especially interested In this fruit, valued both for its taste and its cultural impact (it is considered a symbol of fortune, especially during the New Year), a demand that has been benefited until now especially Chile. But what has changed? Basically, that the General Administration of Customs of China (AGA) has given its definitive approval to exports of Spanish cherry. The news has been advanced by the department led by Luis Planas in A statement confirming that the Asian Administration has already published the registration of authorized establishments for the sending of fruit. “It puts an end to a complex negotiation process of several years”, stands out. The sector Trust in which the new protocol “expedite” its ability to export. Is it a novelty? Yes. And no. Beijing has just opened its doors, but the news will catch few by surprise. It was expected Since AprilWhen Planas and Chinese Customs Minister Sun Meijun signed several protocols for the export of pigs and cherries, agreements that add to the dozen of pacts signed since 2018 on sanitary requirements oriented to food export. To move from political theory to commercial practice there were nevertheless several pending procedures. In June, AGA technicians conducted an audit of plots and stores related to the export of cherries to confirm that they fulfill the sanitary protocol. Before, in 2024, a delegation sent by Beijing had already been in charge of visiting some producing areas of the country. Are the details known? Yes. The Government He has revealed Some details of the agreement signed with China. The closed protocol with Beijing, for example, that the phases of processing, packaging, storage and transport of the fruit that is exported to China is carried out “under the supervision” of the ministry. “This will also be responsible for ensuring that only the cherries of the registered orchards can enter the clothing warehouse for their selection and processed.” The agreement will be valid for three years and adds to the bilateral export pacts between Spain and China of those who already enjoy other crops, such as citrus, peach, plum, table grape, chaqui or almond. Among other merchandise, Chinese authorities also allow the sale of fodder oatmeal, olive paste and dehydrate alfalfa destined for animal feed. Soon the list could be extended even more. The Planas department acknowledges that, after closing the agreement for cherries, the files of two other products with roots in Spain continue to negotiate: The pistachio and dry figs. Why is it important? For several reasons. The cherry cultivation is not equally extended throughout Spain, but there are provinces in which it is relevant, such as Cáceres or Zaragoza. According to The latest statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture, in 2022 the production of cherry and icing of the country as a whole touched the 114,000 t, with a fundamental weight of Aragon (48,600) and Estremadura (40,000), followed quite distance in Catalonia (6,800), Andalusia (5,300) and Murcia (3,500). The sector expects the agreement with Beijing to expand its horizon. “It will open new possibilities for export to this fruit, whose culture has had an important development,” celebrated Already in April Pemex, the Federation of Producers of fruits, vegetables, flowers and plants. “The export of cherry from Spain in 2024 stood at 39,968 tons, the European Union being the first destination, with 33,440 T”. Among the extra -community markets stands out above all the United Kingdom, which received more than 5,700 tons, and South Africa and Hong Kong, with around one hundred tons each. Fruit shipments reached a value of 139 million euros. Will it have it easy? No. Although the agreement is good news for the Asian aspirations of the Spanish cherry, the truth is that it must compete in a complex market. According to the last forecasts collected by Produces reportit is expected that in the 2025/2026 season, which will last until March, the production of China cherries will grow 6% to 900,000 T, which demonstrates the bet within the country itself. One of the keys to that rebound is the increase in cultivated area, which during last season was around 199,000 ha. His high demand has led Beijing to use Chilean productionincreasingly focused on China. If in 2016 the South American country exported about 40,000 t of fruit to the Asian giant, in 2023 that figure had already fired until exceeding 370,000 t. At the beginning of the year the Xinhua agency He pointed out That during the last season Chile expert to the world more than 625,000 tons of fresh cherry, of which 568,000 left for China’s markets. Images | US Department of Agriculture (Flickr), Dominic Kurniawan Suryaputra (Unspash) and Ok Apartment (Flickr) In Xataka | Extremadura promised them very happy with its powerful Spanish tomato industry. Until China arrived

The depths of Antarctica had always been a mystery, so far: 3,000 “mega -structures”

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An international team of scientists, with the researcher at the University of Barcelona David Amblàs at the head, He has revealed A much more complex and detailed map of the Antarctic Sea Fund. Using the most complete database to date, they have identified 3,291 individual cannons organized in 332 systems, some of which sink up to 4,000 meters deep and that act as supermarine superautistapistas that regulate the global climate, and at the same time, represent the Achilles heel of the gigantic glaciers of the icy continent. The map that has changed everything. Until now, our vision of the seabed surrounding Antarctica was blurred. The maps were based In low resolution data that barely suggested the largest structures. But everything has changed thanks to the new ‘International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBCSO) V.2‘, a cartography that has combined thousands of ship polls with satellite data. Taking advantage of this “Google Maps” of the Antarctic Sea bed, scientists applied semi -automatic hydrological techniques, similar to those used to analyze river basins on the mainland. In this way, they managed to trace with amazing precision the entire network of “rivers” and “submarines” submarine that cross the continental margins of the continent. Two types of very different geographies. The finding with this system reveals two types of underwater geography. On the one hand, you have the ‘Eastern Antarctica‘Where very branched and -shaped cannon systems are found, which determines that its origin is very old. On the other hand, there is the ‘Western Antarctica‘Where shorter cannons predominate with abrupt slopes and V sections, which allows to see a more recent geological origin. For Amblàs, This difference so marked in geomorphology “It supports the hypothesis that the eastern ice layer is older and formed before the western one.” This is something that until now had only been able to intuit. Visual representation of the applied methodology for the extraction of the streams in the seabed. Water highways that decide our future. These cannons are not just a geographical accident. They are leading actors of climate change. On the one hand, they act as channels for the water of the continental platform, which when cooled and gain salinity, becomes very dense. . This water is precipitated by the cannons to the depths of the ocean, in a process that forms the Background Antarctic Water (AABW). This mass of cold and dense water is the engine of global oceanic circulation, a gigantic “conveyor belt” that distributes heat throughout the planet and kidnaps huge amounts of carbon dioxide in the deep ocean. The geometry of these cannons, therefore, is essential for climate regulation. The Achilles heel of the glaciers. On the other hand, these same cannons are an entrance door for the enemy. Allow him to Circumpolar deep water (CDW), a relatively warm mass of water (about 2 ° C above the freezing point) and saline, sneaks from the open ocean to the base of the ice platforms. This warm water flow is the main responsible for the basal melting of the glaciers, eroding them from below and accelerating their slide to the sea. The discovery of such a dense cannon network, especially in Eastern Antarctica (considered so far stable), suggests that The vulnerability of the continent The oceanic warming could be greater than what the models foresee. Regions such as the Amundsen Sea, home of the final judgment glacier, are full of these cannons that serve the warm water in tray. The great challenge: that our climatic models understand it. In addition, this discovery shows an important career: the climatic models that we currently use to project future scenarios are not able to simulate precisely. The topography is so rugged that the predictions on the dynamics of the oceans and the weather lose reliability, especially in areas as vulnerable as the Amundsen Sea. Therefore, the two authors of this study underline the urgency of continuing to invest in the high resolution mapping of these unexplored areas. The second researcher, Riccardo Arosio, concludes that “new cannons will surely be revealed” and each of them is essential to be able to make more precise climatic models that determine the future of the planet. Antarctica is a well of surprises. There are many investigations that focus on the planet’s location, and the conclusions are very interesting. We already know that in the past Where there is now ice was a real forestor that under its surface Something is sending a sign that science fails to clarify. And this has done that Tourism has arrived at this placesomething that is not sitting too well. Images | Cassie Matias In Xataka | Thousands of marine ecosystems depend on only one thing: the pis and the whale droppings

Quantum computers will change the world when they don’t make mistakes. This milestone is closer thanks to quantum gravity

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Some experts believe that all the effort that is being carried out in the field of Quantum computing Not anywhere. One of the members of the scientific community more critical of quantum computers is the Israeli mathematician Gil KalaiProfessor at Yale University. According to this researcher, the increase in the number of states of quantum systems and their complexity will cause them to end up behaving like classical computers, so the superiority of the former will end up evaporating. However, the absence of unanimous support by the scientific community should not tarnish the notable effort and advances that many research groups are doing, some of them in Spanish institutions such as the CSIC and others integrated into the structure of companies that have very bulky resources, such as IBM, Google or Intel, among others. In fact, as expected, the latter defend that the long -awaited error correction will reach quantum computers and will allow them to face a much broader fan of problems than that of current prototypes. Terra Quantum bets on quantum severity to correct errors The main problem facing quantum computers in the field of error correction is noise, understood as the disturbances that can alter the internal state of the cubits and introduce calculation errors. The strategy for which many of the research groups that are involved in the development of quantum computers are opting for monitoring the operations carried out by the cubits to identify real -time errors and correct them. The problem is that from a practical point of view this strategy is very challenging. QMM technology reduces errors by up to 35% in current quantum processors Logical cubits represent a way to overcome the difficulty of the use of hardware or physical cubits, which are extremely noise sensitive, and, therefore, prone to make mistakes. Each logical cubit is constructed abstractly on several physical or hardware cubits, so that a single logical cubit encodes a single cubit of quantum information, but with redundancy. It is precisely this redundancy that allows to detect and correct the errors that are present in the physical cubits. The error correction strategy proposed by the researchers of the Swiss Terra Quantum company is not an alternative to the solutions in which we have just inquired; It is a complement. In fact, as explained in the article they have published in Advanced Quantum Technologiesits QMM technology (Quantum Memory Matrix) Reduce errors by up to 35% in current quantum processors. And, in addition, it reaches 94% fidelity using ten times less cubits than conventional methods. An important note: Terra Quantum’s scientific article has been reviewed by pairs. Terra Quantum has tested its QMM technology in IBM superconductor processors, and works. It only requires adding a quantum circuit that does not alter the architecture of the processor, although it is very ingenious. In fact, its operation is inspired by A principle of quantum gravity which maintains that the space-time continuum can be described as a network of me memory cells. It is a complicated idea, it is true, but the really important thing is that we know that this theoretical concept is the one that has inspired Terra Quantum scientists the design of their quantum circuit of errors suppression. Anyway, this innovation joins the effort that IBM, the MIT and other organizations are making to invite us to tie the future of quantum computers with a very reasonable optimism. Image | IBM More information | Advanced Quantum Technologies In Xataka | Bitcoin encryption and other cryptocurrencies will fall. And those responsible will be quantum computers

The most powerful console in the world is not from Sony or Microsoft. It is from Nvidia, and costs $ 20 a month

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The cloud game was the future. But it seems that The future resists arrivingbecause the gamers continue to prefer to go to their consoles and their pcs. And yet GeForce Nowthat has just reinforced the big. For all. To start, the guts. The GeForce Now infrastructure has been reinforced, and now the servers in charge of distributing all these games may Take advantage of the powerful RTX 5080 graphics that will undoubtedly help the fluidity of the experience be as perfect as possible. The goal has always been the same: that you do not notice that you are playing in the cloud. That hardware will of course help you get it. The update occurs two years after the last great improvement of that infrastructure, which then It was filled with the predecessors of those graphicsRTX 4080. Best experience. This hardware improvement will also allow you to enjoy streaming games to resolutions that reach 5K at 120 fps, or at 1080p at 360 fps. Users of Steam Deck Oled They can enjoy cloud game at 90 Hz (before was only 60 Hz). There is A new mode called Cinematic Quality Streaming that according to NVIDIA improves the quality of colors and graphics in general, in addition to supporting the distribution of games to 100 Mbps, when before the maximum was 75 Mbps. More data per second, better graphic quality and fluidity. Or what is the same: best experience. Steam to power. Another of the great novelties is the arrival of the option “Install -to-Play”, which actually returns an old characteristic: to be able to install games without waiting for Nvidia to “homologue” as compatible on its platform. That means we can install old games from our library and then enjoy them in the cloud, but also games that are part of the catalog of Steam Cloud Play. Many more games. According to one of the NVIDIA managers, that will suddenly allow the Geforce Now catalog will be reinforced with “2,352 games” present in Steam. This option also facilitates that future games and demos are included in the Cloud Gaming platform in Nvidia in a simple way: it will suffice that its developers activate that option by distributing them in Steam. But. There is a small disadvantage in this option, it is in the fact that the Install-To-Play games cannot be instantly executed as it happens with the “approved” games. We will have to download them and install them every time we want to enjoy them, unless we pay Nvidia a subscription to enjoy storage in the cloud for those games: three dollars per month for 200 GB, five dollars a month for 500 GB or eight dollars per month for 1 TB. Strategic alliances. To that catalog are added new alliances that further reinforce the options of the platform. Now GeForce Now can “merge” with Discord, and gamers can try new games for free directly from discord serverswithout the need to log in to GeForce Now. Epic Games is part of this agreement, and the result is striking: a user can start playing Fortnite from Discord in just a few seconds and without installing anything. At the moment the service has just taken its first steps, but Nvidia expects more and more studies to offer that possibility for players to have another alternative, especially if they are discord users. Pay $ 20 a month for renting a PC? The truth is that all these developments make Nvidia’s GeForce Now service, but once again what we “rent” is not the ability to play video games, but “a cloud pc” to enjoy them. The service does not include the games, which we will have to buy separately if we had not bought them. It is an important difference with respect to analternatives such as Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, that “video game” that does include by default a large catalog of hundreds of titles. A small cost analysis. The cost of owned by a console compared to the use of a service such as GeForce Now allows you to get an idea of whether or not to compensate for an option like this. Consoles like Xbox Series x wave PS5 They are around 600 euros, while their basic online subscription services (Xbox Game Pass Core / PS Plus) are priced at 80 euros per year. Meanwhile, Geforce Now has a fixed cost of 22 euros per month. If we take a five -year period without taking into account the cost of acquiring the games, the cost of those five years would be the following: Consoles: 1,000 euros (approximately) GeForce Now: 1,320 euros Two philosophies and both are good. But of course, we are facing two very different proposals: the consoles offer a consistent and predictable experience, but always dependent on playing where the console is. With Geforce Now we can enjoy an high -end PC experience in all types of devices – our TV, an old PC, a Steam Deck – although we depend on some external factors such as connectivity. Even so, the recurring cost is higher after that period, but as “virtual console”, its validity is clear. Here it should be remembered that GeForce Now It has striking rivals In this segment (Gamepass, Luna), which further enriches the panorama for users. The options are good. In Xataka | That makes more hot than in hell is not something you can control. The temperature of your pc while you play, yes

Honda appeared in a Japanese circuit with a Pokémon motorcycle. Actually hid an advance that goes far beyond the game

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A video game creature turned into a real motorcycle would not have to get too much attention. But when that creature moves alone on an official track, something changes. That was what happened on August 3 during the ceremony prior to 8 hours from Suzukaone of the most important events of Japanese motorcycling. Honda took a motorcycle designed as the circuit as the Pokémon Koraidon And he made it travel the exit line without driver, at low speed and for about ten minutes, in a showrun scheduled between 11:00 and 11:10. The motorcycle that Honda presented in Suzuka is not just a model based on the character that appears in the ‘scarlet’ delivery of the video game. To make it work, the company combined technologies that it had developed Years ago with your Asimo Robot and with the system Honda Riding Assistaimed at maintaining balance without human intervention and simulate organic movements. According to Nikkei Asiathe unit integrates sensors, cameras and communications to recognize the environment and adjust its movement. An experiment with more ambition than it appears. Honda did not design this motorcycle just to get attention during an event. The company presents it as An opportunity to improve equilibrium technologies and autonomous navigation, with an eye on the future of transport on two wheels. A Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association survey He points out that 26% of motorcycle buyers in Japan are under 40 years old. For Honda, advancing in autonomy and security can help reconnect with a generation that has moved away from motorcycles. The idea of converting a Pokémon into a real vehicle is not new, but until now it had stayed in static models or promotional elements. Toyota, for example, showed an almost real -size recreation of MiraidonKoraidon’s futuristic equivalent in video games. Honda was a step further. What Honda is played with a motorcycle that moves alone. The future of the motorcycle is to convince a new generation that does not end up. A safer and more assisted driving is one of the keys that manufacturers handle. Although this version of Koraidon is a punctual experiment, the technologies involved could move to commercial models, as happened with equilibrium assistance systems developed in the past. For now there is no clear road map to a product, but a declared intention: continue accumulating experience to apply autonomy to the two wheels. Although the show lasted only ten minutes, its message goes much further. Images | Suzuka Circuit (1, 2, 3) | Sling In Xataka | Lamborghini will only manufacture 29 units of its last supercar but you are not in a hurry: they were already sold before presenting

Less weight, more speed and augmented reality helmets

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China has seen during the essays of its great military parade a new combat car that breaks with the established. It appears to be lighter and mobility oriented. Mainly he has drawn attention for his aesthetics and for visible technological details in the disseminated photographs. American sources As Chinese identify him as ZTZ-201an “middle tank” that aims to combine advanced electronics, active defense and possible hybrid mobility. For now, what is known proceeds exclusively from indirect observation. The alleged ZTZ-201 has been photographed during the essays of the event that will be held on September 3 in Beijing, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Its identification and technical characteristics, from weight to propulsion, come from Osint Fuentes. At the moment, it is a visible armored, not a formally presented system. What changes. Army Recognition points out That the most relevant is not the shape of the armor, but the category to which it points: an average tank with modular design, capable of assuming different configurations according to the operational environment. This flexibility, unusual in armored vehicles, suggests a change in the way of understanding the role of the combat car. Instead of designing a closed system for all scenarios, it is committed to a base platform that can adapt and evolve more quickly. A hybrid vehicle? Defense Blog adds other details. The vehicle would use a diesel-electric train of more than 1,500 horsepower of combined power. Beyond the speed, the relevant of this architecture would be its use in pure electrical mode for covert operations or silent displacements, especially in urban environments. This modality would reduce noise, thermal signature and fuel consumption in specific missions. Ambitious weapons system. We are facing a shielded that would bet on a new generation 105 mm caliber. The initial velocity of certain APFSD projectiles is estimated at 1,706 m/s, a figure that, in theoretical terms, could bring its energy closer to that of largest guns. However, this equivalence is only indicative: there are no public ballistic evidence that supports a real equivalence in penetration or terminal effects. One of the most significant aspects of the armor observed in the trials is its approach to electronic protection. Some images disseminated in Weibo and other networks show Perimeter sensors distributed in the chassis. These devices would probably be connected to an Active GL system, for which there are precedents In public tests of the G-6 intercepting ammunition released from drones. In the upper part there is also a remote weapons station that would be oriented to face aerial threats, including FPV drones. What to look at September 3. The military parade in Beijing could clear several unknowns. Among them, the official name of the vehicle, its technical file, the confirmation of the hybrid system and the armament used. It will also be relevant to know if some increased reality helmets are part of the operational equipment. The sensor configuration, the remote tower and the active defense could offer more clues if the armor occurs in detail. For now, everything indicates that it will be one of the main foci of the event. With or without formal presentation, what China has seen is already significant. The appearance of an average tank with modular architecture and perimeter sensors marks a possible inflection in the evolution of the battleship. In the absence of official data, everything indicates that the ZTZ-201 is not a simple technical exercise, but one more piece in the transformation of the Chinese army. Images | Weibo @恩宇- In Xataka | We have been reading rumors about amazing robotic prototypes in the war in Ukraine for years. Today we know they are real

The record that brings aviation to the stratosphere

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On the Alps of Valais, in a clear summer sky, a white plane advanced slowly, almost silent. He wore turbines or burned chest: it only depended on sunlight. In the cabin, the Swiss driver Raphaël Domjan faced a challenge that a few years ago seemed unattainable: demonstrating that aviation can also gain height without spending a single drop of fossil fuel. On August 12, the Solarstrates project reached 9,521 meters altitude After taking off from Zion. This exceeded the world flight record on a solar plane, which since 2010 held the lot promoted with 9,235 meters, which turned the world between 2015 and 2016, As France remembered 24. Five hours to make history. The ascent lasted five hours and nine minutes, carefully planned for the plane to take off with 100% charged batteries with solar energy. During the journey, they even crossed with a passenger plane, a moment that the team described as the most powerful image of what could be aviation of the future, As Berner Zeitung said. HB-SXA SOLARS It is an ultralight biplaza carbon fiber, with wings covered with high -performance solar panels. It weighs just 450 kilos and does not have pressurized cabin, which forced domjja to bring oxygen on board, According to France 24. Its benefits are modest – dispensing at low speed and does not exceed 140 km/h – but its design allows you to reach heights reserved so far to conventional aviation. Not a drop of kerosene. Beyond the figures, Domjan’s goal is to demonstrate that a clean aviation is possible. “My goal is to show today’s generations and tomorrow that it will still be possible to fly without fossil fuels,” declared CBS. The pilot himself is no stranger to pioneer adventures. In 2012, he completed the first return to the world on a ship driven only by solar energy, The planetsolara futuristic catamaran who showed that the sea could also arise without fossil fuels, Berner Zeitung recalled. That journey, which lasted more than a year and a half and left Monaco, made him an international reference of clean mobility. A record still to validate. The International Aeronautical Federation (FAI) must confirm the record by reviewing the altitude data, which are certified according to the pressure and air density, France remembered 24. The organization is reviewing the flight data according to its standards. SOLARSTRATS The eyes set in the stratosphere. The record flight is not the end, but one more step towards a larger goal: to exceed 10,000 meters, the cruise altitude of commercial airplanes, and then reach the stratosphere, which in Switzerland begins around 12,000 meters. The road has been full of attempts and learning. On July 31, soarstrats reached 6,589 meters; Days later he reached 8,224, although he had to interrupt the ascent due to lack of thermal currents, According to Techxplore. “Being a pioneer means trying something without having the certainty that it will work out,” Summarized Domjjan in statements to the AFP agency collected by RTL. Epilogue. Although the official validation still remains, the image of a small solar plane flying next to a commercial plane is already recorded as a symbol of the transition to a clean aviation. Since the Swiss Alps, the suns has not only beaten a record: it has opened a door to a future in which the unthinkable begins to fly with sun energy. Image | SOLARSTRATS Xataka | The renewable boom clashes with the invisible wall: Spain has more green energy than ever but the system does not endure it

His new promise is based on reinforcing our immune system

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Messenger RNA vaccines (RNM) became known for their role in the fight against COVID. Years after pandemic, this technology is still subject to the interest of the scientific community, not only for its ability to fight viruses but also as a new hope against very different diseases. Diseases such as cancer. A step in the laboratory. Now, an experiment conducted in mice has shown the potential of a new formula against tumors. It is a HRNM -based vaccine capable of boosting the effects of inunotherapy on these rodents. Success is an impulse to a formula that could help us fight various types of cancer. A name, several diseases. We usually see cancer as a disease that can manifest itself in different parts of our body, but the most complex reality. To the point that it is more convenient to understand this disorder as a variety of diseases, each with its characteristics, but also with specific treatments. That is why finding a universal treatment against cancer is even today, a chimera. This vision, Explain the responsible team From this new vaccine potential, it applies to the way in which science seeks new treatments of this type. This can be done well causing these vaccines to focus on a “objective” protein expressed in the cancers of multiple people, well adjusting each formula to specific proteins, present in the tumors of each patient. Third way. The new treatment offers a kind of “third way.” Instead of focusing on proteins of the tumor, what it seeks is to strengthen our immune system, “as if they were going to fight a virus,” says the team. The formula starts from a previous work, in which a team of the same laboratory created an RNM vaccine capable of “reprogram” the immune system to attack glioblastoma (a brain tumor type particularly aggressive). This vaccine was based on a compound adjusted to the characteristics of the patient’s tumor to be treated. The new formula tries to “universalize” this answer. “Promising” results. The results when testing the new vaccine in melanoma mice were “promising” even in cases of tumors generally resistant to treatment. As explained by the team, the new formula combines the RNM formulation with a new drug based on immunotherapy called PD-1 inhibitor. This treatment is a monoclonal antibody that seeks, in Team words “Educate” the immune system to make you think that tuum is an external body to eliminate. The details of the study were Published in an article In the magazine Nature Biomedical Engineering. The new hope of the MNA. HRNM -based vaccines did not stay in the pandemic and have now become an important focus on oncological research. For now they are just a promise: the positive results in preclinical and clinical trials are hopeful but do not guarantee the arrival of new treatments in the short term. Nor do they guarantee the success of these new drugs. In Xataka | The patient who has survived 12 different tumors and hides the “holy grail” of the fight against cancer Image | Tankilevitch polyina

There are already robots running 1,500 meters at 13 kilometers per hour. It is the result of China’s robotic muscle

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Last weekend, Beijing hosted the first “Olympic Games” for humanoid robots. Held in the National Speed Skating Ovalthe Olympic track built for the 2022 winter jjo, the three -day event allowed the attendees to see football, table tennis, boxing, martial arts and Athletics tests. In tests and exhibitions They participated dozens of Humanoid robots belonging to both private companies from 16 countries and 280 teams from universities and, although there were more or less fun moments, which has gone around the world is that of the Unitree robot on the athletics track. We can see it in this video: In this competition, the robots were not in their air, but were being operated by humans with remote control. That does not take merit to the fact that Unitree’s H1 model I got a speed record when completing 1,500 meters in a time of 6 minutes and 34 seconds. Its speed reached 4.78 m/s, exceeding the previous 3.3 m/s mark that held a few months ago and eclipseing the 2.5 m/s that the Boston Dynamics Atlas. And, in context, although it is much slower than Jakob IngebrigstenNorwegian that has the 3: 29.63 mark, it was also faster than many non -professional humans. But what is giving what to talk about, for the “fun” of the moment, was when that same H1 he ran over an operator of another robot who, Next to the Unitree model, I had nothing to do. In the end, as the human operators run next to their robot, when they relieve the control, the H1 operators mislead for a moment and ended up overwhelming the rival. Yellow card, if they ask me. But here the interesting thing is that these Olympics for robots, more than something fun or colorful, was a muscle demonstration to the entire world. That the ‘gag’ does not prevent seeing the forest Robots such as those of Unitree have artificial intelligence systems, and even internal language models, to perform the actions for which they have been trained. H1, without going any further, has been trained with a Honor property. The ‘ruling’ in the 1,500 meters test that resulted in the outrage was due to what was commented: they were not autonomous, but controlled by an operator. However, these Olympics served to demonstrate the versatility of a new generation of robots in which many countries have interest, but that China has become a national priority. The Asian giant is following an extremely ambitious national strategy with a goal: to become a world leader in short -term humanoid robotics. With the so-called ’14th Five-Year Plan for The Robotics Industry’, the government He set goals in 2021 with the idea of annual growth of more than 20% in the robotics sector. This year the First national standards For these robots, a regulation that covers from environmental perception and movement control to the planning and execution of tasks. And, for all this, it has created a state fund of almost 140,000 million dollars for technological startups, and Unitree is one of the spoiled by the Government. HE wait that the country produces more than 10,000 humanoid robots this 2025 and even They are creating “schools” in which these machines are trained in specific tasks such as cleaning, kitchen or series manufacturing. The purpose is that they are capable of perform tasks that require fine mobility. In the “Olympics”, apart from more conventional sports tests, medication classification tournaments, material manipulation and cleaning were held. Come on, it was a window for companies to show achievements that are going to leave in all media, such as the Unitree record, but also to be seen to what extent is the specialization of these robots. China considers that these humanoid robots are “The next great technological revolution” After smartphones and electric vehicles, and are an essential tool in the industry, but also to compensate for the Demographic decrease of some countries who are suffering to find workers in certain sectors. And there are several cities in which universities and startups are investigating in humanoid robotics, but the hard core of investment and leadership in China is made up of Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, Suzhou and Guangzhou, agglutinating the largest number of companies and industrial parks for the development of robotic projects. In the end, the ‘World Humanoid Robot Games’ or events such as the Robot World Football World or the Boxing championshipsThey are nothing more than a showcase to test the abilities of robots that, in China they are already living with humans. For example, the Roboperros Guide for blindthose who are “living” in the subway distributing packages to feeding stores or those who perform tasks of Hospital care and care for older people. Returning to the Olympics, the most amazing thing is that Unitree ensures that those 4.78 m/s of their H1 have already been surpassed in internal tests. Images | UNITREE In Xataka | Given the irremediable aging of its population, China has made a family decision: up the retirement age

We have centuries studying the different types of clouds. What tells us the shape and color of these atmospheric phenomena

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The atmosphere of the earth hides about 12.9 billion liters of watermore or less. And a good part of that water is in huge clouds that we see fly over our heads as if nothing. These huge atmospheric objects captivate our imagination in childhood, but we often stop thinking about them during our day. Knowing them can help us pay attention to them. What is a cloud The clouds are essentially water, a lot of water. Steam -shaped water, small drops and Even small ice crystals that remain in suspension in the atmosphere. This water becomes visible when condensed, generating a contrast with the blue of the sky. The clouds circulate in the atmosphere dragged through the differences in pressure and the wind that they generate. They also move as a result of the land rotation itself, since the solid surface of the earth does not rotate in the same way as the atmosphere. The clouds can be of very different types that we classify according to certain conditions, such as the height to which they occur. For example, when the clouds are formed at surface height, we do not even usually refer to them as such, but as a fog. But the fog is still a type of cloud. How a cloud is formed The atmosphere keeps water vapor, small H2O molecules that are mixed with the other gases that make up the atmosphere. The amount of water that the atmosphere can store in the form of gas depends on factors such as temperature and pressure. There is a threshold from which the atmosphere Water “sat”and that is when this water can begin to accumulate. This accumulation is good when the amount of water increases or because atmospheric conditions make the threshold reduce, and implies that the molecules go from being a gas in suspension to form microscopic water drops. When these drops, still in suspension, accumulate, the clouds are formed. Types of clouds and characteristics The clouds are usually classified according to two fundamental characteristics: Your altitude in the atmosphere and its appearance. According to its altitude, three types of clouds are distinguished (with an additional case), groups that the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) call of “high floor” (the highest altitude), of “middle floor” (intermediate altitude) and those of low floor (those of minor antura), to which we must add the clouds of vertical development. There are different terms with which referring to these clouds, for example we can speak sympleously of high, medium and low clouds. High floor clouds The high -floor clouds are those that are at heights between 5 and 13 kilometers on the ground, and include cirro, circoum and cirrostrates. Cirrus: According to Explain Aemetcirrus are clouds of the high floor, separate and “in the form of white and delicate filaments, or banks or narrow, white or almost white bands.” Cirrus. Piccolonamek, Commons. CIRCOUM: It is a thin layer of clouds, white and shadowless, “very small elements” in the form of grains or undulations. Circummers. King of Hearts. CIRROSTRATE: These clouds for their part acquire the appearance of a “cloudy veil”, also transparent and rather white, only that this type of clouds covers the sky, totally or partially, producing “halos.” Cirros and its characteristic halo. SeanMack Medium floor clouds The clouds of the middle floor are located at heights between two and seven kilometers, and can also be of various types: altocumulos, high, and nimbostratos. Altocúmulos: The altocumulus are already located at medium heights. It is a bank or cloud layer that can be white or gray. Its structure can varybeing formed by “tiles”, “rounded masses” or “rollers”, structures that, in turn, can be “partially fibrous or diffuse,” Explain Aemet. Altocumulos. Bidgee Altostrates: This layer of clouds usually has gray or bluish colors, it can also have a fibrous appearance, it is characterized by totally or partially covering the sky allowing to distinguish vaguely, but unlike cirrostrates, it does not produce halos. Altostrates. Famartin. Nimbostrates: These clouds form an already dark gray layer, with “appearance veiled by rainfall or snow precipitation”, rainfall that usually falls from it more or less continuously. Nimbostratos. Famartin. Low floor clouds The low floor clouds are those located at heights of up to two kilometers and can be of two types: strata and strata. Stratocumulous: Again clouds that can acquire a gray color, or, on other occasions, whitish with dark parts. Stratocumulous. DjClimber. Strata: Generally gray clouds, uniform base (relatively), which can produce drizzle. The halos in this cloud only occur when very low temperatures are reached. Strata. Couch-Scratching-Cats. Vertical Development Clouds Finally, vertical development clouds can also be of two types: clusters and cumulonimbos. Clusters: These are clouds that arise in isolation, dense and well -defined contours. These clouds develop vertically with the form of “protuberances”, “domes” or “towers.” Clusters. Piccolonamek. Cumulonimbos: Finally, the cumulonimbos are clouds that Aemet describes as “Amazacotadas and Dense”, of vertical development “in the form of a mountain or huge towers.” On his cusp, a top “smooth, fibrous or striated.” Cumulonimbos. NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division. How much water is there in a cloud? The clouds are ethereal objects, “cotton” and with a density low enough to keep afloat at a certain height in the atmosphere. However, they are also huge, so the amount of water they can house is enormous. A few years ago, a group of researchers proposed answer the question How much water is in a cloud. The truth is that the answer can vary greatly since the volume of these atmospheric phenomena can be the most diverse. However, the team made an estimate based on a 0.5 grams of water per cubic meter of cloud. The team took as reference an average cluster, an cloud that would have a cubic shape and a kilometer long. The result: this imaginary cloud would contain about 500 tons of water. Larger clouds, of course, would be able to house an even greater amount of water. In Xataka | “We are changing the clouds”: … Read more

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