A milestone that will provide you with all the uranium you need for decades

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Nuclear energy It is essential for China. The development he has experienced in this Asian country during the last two decades supports this statement. In 2002 he only had two nuclear centrals in operation. Today you have nothing less than 58 activity in activity. Only US has more (94). There is no doubt about one thing: during the last two decades China’s civil and military nuclear program It has advanced with a dizzying speed. And it seems that he will continue to do so. Anyway the heart of the nuclear program of the country led by Xi Jinping, and that of any other nation that bets on nuclear energy, It is uranium. This chemical element is present in nature in very low concentrations, usually in rocks, land and water. Hence, its obtaining is expensive and its complex treatment, since it requires chemical processes capable of separating it from the other elements and impurities with which it usually lives. It has 92 protons and many other electrons orbiting around the nucleus, and the latter incorporates, in addition to the protons, between 142 and 146 neutrons. It is important that we remember that the nucleus of an atom is usually constituted by a certain number of protons and neutrons (although not always: the protio, the isotope of the most abundant hydrogen, has a single proton and no neutron in its nucleus), as well as by some electrons that orbit around it. China already knows how to exploit deposits that until now were inaccessible The fact that the number of neutrons of the uranium nucleus can vary, as we have just seen, it indicates that there are several isotopes of this chemical element, which are nothing other than atoms with the same number of protons and electrons, but different number of neutrons. The reason why in nuclear fission reactors An uranium-235 atom is used, and not another isotope of this element or any other chemical element, it is that by bombarding its nucleus with a neutron (a process that is known as induced fission) the Uranium-235 is transformed into Uranium-236, which is a more unstable element. This simply means that Uranium-236 cannot remain long in its current state, so it is divided into two lighter nuclei, such as barium-144 and crypton-89 or Cesium-137 and Rubidio-96, and also emits two or three neutrons (2.5 neutrons on average). And here comes the really interesting: the sum of the masses of the light nuclei It is slightly lower than that of the Uranium-236 nucleus from which they come (“disappears” around 0.1% of the original mass). Where has the mass we lack? Only one is possible: it has been transformed into energy. Its largest uranium deposit lies in the Ordos basin, in northern China Until now, China has obtained the uranium that its nuclear power plants need from their Xinjiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan and Sichuan deposits. However, it also matters from Namibia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan, Canada and Australia, among other countries. The funny thing is that its largest uranium deposit lies in the Ordos basin, in northern China, but has a very important problem: It is very difficult to exploit it. In fact, until just a few months that uranium was essentially inaccessible using existing extraction and processing technology. The technical limitations led to the Chinese government years ago to rule out the exploitation of the mines of the Ordos basin, but in 2023 it changed their minds and decided to launch a project called “National Uranium Nº1”. His plan consisted of Develop the necessary technology To extract and process the uranium of ordos with a purpose: take a giant step on the way to China’s self -sufficiency in the field of nuclear energy. The problem of this huge site was that uranium is disseminated and mixed with other sandstone -shaped elements. And it is difficult to process it without the costs are triggered. Even so, in mid -2024 China produced natural uranium by first time by leaching in situ. And now, According to the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC)has produced its first uranium barrel using this method. The leaching in situ requires injecting in the bed of underground ore through wells a solution of carbon dioxide and oxygen that is capable of dissolving uranium. Then it is necessary to pump to the surface the liquid contained in this chemical element and process it. China’s merit is not just having solved this challenge by finding the ideal aqueous solution; is having achieved it from an economically viable and environmentally respectful formalways According to the information that the National Uranium Corporation of China has made public. Image | Xataka More information | Interesting Engineering In Xataka | The largest nuclear power plant in the planet is a beast with seven reactors. Is ready to return after Fukushima

Ryanair has left several death injured in Spain. Now we know that he has more passengers than ever

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Ryanair is not weighing, at all, his departure from some Spanish airports. The Irish company is flying more than ever in our country, as certified by the data related to the first semester. The company accumulates more passenger volume in Spain, is one of the airlines that grows the most and expands its distance from competitors. More passengers, more. In the first semester of 2025, Ryanair has accumulated in Spain 32.64 million passengers. It is a 6.6% higher than that registered in the same period last year when it accumulated 30.63 million passengers. It is, with great difference, the airline that moves more traffic from our country. The data collects them AENA which also points out that in the first semester more than 181 million passengers have moved at Spanish airports, the figure is 4.7% higher than that registered in the same period of 2024. Leaders. The data of the first semester of the year also leave other readings. Ryanair has added more than two million passengers compared to the same period of 2024. No other large airline has grown so much in our country in absolute terms of travelers. In fact, the variation with respect to last year is 6.6%, lower than the sustained in previous semesters and also lower than other companies Lowcost such as Easyjet (+13%), Binter (+8.6%) or Wizzair (+22.8%). However, none of them approaches the numbers of the Irish company. A year ago, Ryanair surpassed Vueling in 8 million passengers in a single semester. Today that difference is closer to the 10 million passengers since the Spanish airline has only grown in some 400,000 travelers compared to the first semester of 2024. In full withdrawal. Growth is even more striking if we consider than Ryanair has closed 12 routes in Spain And now offer 800,000 places less than only a few months ago. The company fulfilled its threat to leave some regional airports as a demonstration of force before the fine that the government imposed For the collection of hand luggage, practices that the Executive considers abusive. At his departure, Ryanair prioritized regional airports. In them, their business volume was low and, in fact, maintained some routes for Commercial agreements with local entities. He knew that retiring from these spaces could cause almost deadly damage to some airfields. To show that of Valladolid that in the first half of the year he has registered 41,725 passengers between January and June, about 56,000 passengers less than in the same period of 2024 when 100,000 travelers were toured in six months. The Lowcost. The other striking fact, which we have already advanced, is the growth of the Lowcost in front of any other company. Regarding the same semester of 2024, no airline grows both in passengers and the cheapest options. Airlines that make greater reach flights are more sensitive to geopolitical fluctuations and facilities (or not) to travel. Iberia, for example, Avaca Its 0.7% setback to a fall in travelers to North America. On the contrary, Eurowings (Lowcost from Lufthansa) and Transavia (from Air France-KLM) have also grown in Spain more than 4%. Photo | Wolfgang Weiser In Xataka | Michael O’Leary, Ceo de Ryanair: “I don’t want money. They fly without suitcases”

The Nintendo console surprises more because of what it maintains that for what it changes

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Can you imagine playing ‘Cyberpunk 2077‘In one Nintendo portable console … And that the experience is surprisingly good? The Switch 2 It is here and, after several weeks of real use, we are clear about what has changed, what is maintained and how the Japanese company has responded to The criticisms that “does not innova”. On this new 24/7 of the Xataka YouTube channel —The same format in which we have already tested the Pixel 9a wave DJI OSMO POCKET 3– We tell you how the new Nintendo console behaves when you really use it daily. Because one thing is to see the specifications and another very different living with it. Nintendo has worked well in the Switch 2 redesign. Although maintains the essence of the original modelthere are important changes in size, materials and ergonomics that are noted from the first use. “The console, as I said in Unboxing, feels better in hand. As more Premium. Nintendo has worked on this and it shows that it is an evolution. ” It is a bigger console, yes, and also heavier. “It’s something that shows nothing more,” says our partner. Now, these changes compromise comfort or quite the opposite? Do they affect use in long sessions or improve experience? In the video we respond to that and much more, after weeks trying it thoroughly. The screen is one of the points that generated the most doubts. “I was one of those who thought that an LCD panel, after having had a nintendo switch with Oled, was to step back … and it was a mistake“That is one of the big surprises. As he explains, the LCD Full HD panel with 120 Hz offers a more than dignified experience, with good representation of color, more than enough gloss indoors and great fluidity. And outdoors?” It looks good, but under the direct sun it costs to enjoy it a little more. “ It should be noted that the console offers two graphic modes, both in laptop and Dock: one with higher quality and another performance focused. But beyond the figures, the important thing is that there are no pulls or falls of Frames In demanding games. “CD Projakt has managed to adapt the game to Switch 2 to look good, be playable and do not suffer annoying pulls.” There is also room for visual improvements in classics such as’Zelda: Breath of the Wild‘. “It is rendered to 1440p native And 4K is scale via DLSS in desktop mode. ”So how well does it work in portable mode? Will we notice the difference? In the video are the answers to these questions. Where there is a limitation is in autonomy. “I have not achieved three hours in any scenario,” he acknowledges. The best result was achieved with ‘Mario Kart World‘(2h 37m) and the worst, with’Cyberpunk 2077‘(1h 58m). “This becomes the weak point of the console.” And if you wonder how long it takes to recharge, the data we have verified might surprise you. For the rest, there are small details that should not be overlooked, such as its exclusive compatibility with MicroSD Express, among other things. Is this the great new generation laptop we expected from Nintendo? In the last video of the Xataka YouTube channel We tell you the full experience, With all the lights and the occasional shadow. Because one thing is to see figures … and another very different live with the console day after day. Do not forget to leave your comments about this expected device. Images | Xataka In Xataka | The theft of the Switch 2: Thieves will try to place 3,000 Nintendo consoles worth more than one million euros

Some astronomers analyzed the “Big Bang sound.” Now they believe that the Earth is in a vacuum of 2,000 million light years

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Cosmology has a huge problem. It is known as hubble tension and suggests that the nearby universe is expanding faster than the distant and primitive universe He is telling us. Something does not fit. Now, a disturbing study offers a solution. The big problem of cosmology. Hubble tension is One of the biggest headaches of modern physics. On the one hand, we have the measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the oldest light in the universe. When applying the standard cosmological model (LBDACDM), these observations show a 67.4 km/s/mpc hubble constant. On the other hand, when The expansion of the universe is measured Using nearby objects such as standard candles (a type of supernova), a significantly higher value is obtained: about 73 km/s/mpc. This difference, that the most recent data places in a tension of more than 5Sigma (a level that in particle physics is considered a discovery), refuses to disappear. A disturbing explanation. A new study Prepublished in Arxiv proposes a solution as elegant as depressing. That the discrepancy is not in our measurements, but in our location. According to Indranil Cosmologists Banik and Vasileios Kalaitzidis, we could be living in the center of a gigantic cosmic vacuum, a “bubble” of 2,000 million light years in diameter with a density 20% lower than the universal average. The test, they affirm, It is in the “Big Bang sound”. A local vacuum. The idea of the local vacuum is not new: it is known as the empty KBC (Keenan-Barger-Cowie, in honor of the astronomers who proposed the idea based on the galaxies count). If our galaxy, the Milky Way, were in a region with less matter than normal, the severity of the surrounding, densest areas, would “throw away” out. This effect, added to the general expansion of the universe, would cause nearby galaxies to move away from us faster than normal. “This would give the appearance of a faster local expansion rate,” explains Indranil Banik, of the New Research. The Hubble tension problem would thus become a local phenomenon, without the need to revolutionize the entire cosmological model. The sound of the Big Bang as proof. What the new study of Banik and Kalaitzidis contributes is a much more fundamental test based on barionic acoustic oscillations. Although we call them “the sound of the Big Bang”, they are not sound waves that we can hear. They are the traces that left the pressure waves that spread through the superdense plasma of the primitive universe. These waves were “frozen” about 380,000 years after the Big Bang and created A characteristic pattern in the distribution of matter. This pattern works as a cosmic rule of about 500 million light years in length, which astronomers use to measure the expansion of the universe to different eras. The results. The team analyzed 20 years of measurements and compared them with two scenarios: on the one hand, the homogeneous standard model, without emptiness; and on the other, the model that includes the empty KBC. The results, presented at the National Astronomy Meeting 2025 of the Astronomical Society Royal, are blunt. According to the statistical analysis of the study, the model with a local vacuum conforms to the data in a spectacularly better way. While the standard model has a 3.3sigma voltage with observations, vacuum models reduce it to only 1.1sigma –1.4sigma. Calmly. The researchers consider “demonstrated” that A vacuum model is about 100 million times more likely than a model without emptiness. However, it is a preliminary study, which has not yet gone through the pairs review. Previous studies set very strict limits to the existence of such an influential vacuum, concluding that it is not enough to explain the entire Hubble tension. They also propose early dark energy as a solution. But Banik’s work offers one of the strongest evidence to date that the Earth could be in a very lonely region of the universe. Image | Greg Rakozy (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | The James Webb and Hubble telescope coincide in the expansion of the universe. And physics fails to explain why

Erect “11 days”, Onlyfans and police eviction

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Juan Bernabé’s is a story worth fighting for the summer snake title, but of all 2025. Although his name may not tell you much, for almost a decade and a half this 57 -year -old Cadiz, Admirer confessed from Mussolini and Franco, he exercised as a welfare of The SS Lazio. His mission consisted basically to take care of, love and work with Olympiaan imposing eagle that embodied the emblem of the Italian team. That gave him fame and made him by extension into a celebrity (an almost symbol) of the club chaired by Claudio Lotito. So it was at least until January. Now Bernabé is out of Lazio, It has ended up evicted and a new career is looked like ‘Disseminator’ of Penian prostheses In Onlyfans. What we said: firm candidate for summer snake. Who is Juan Bernabé? The (ex) scerero of the SS Lazio. And against every forecast one of the undisputed protagonists of the Italian football chronicle, although for reasons that little (or nothing) have to do with sport in general. What has given him fame is his penis. Or rather, his efforts to show it. Before explaining it in detail, it is good to know some brushstrokes of the character. Gaditano, 57 yearsfornido, fond of motorcycles and a wax of profession, Juan Bernabé devoted himself for almost 15 years to take care and fly to his Águila Olympia about him Olympic state of Rome before each party. The bird ended up embodying the club’s symbol (known as Aquile and that incorporates one in Your shield) and with it he did it in some way the trainer himself. “After my family, the fans are the most important in my life,” Bernabé presumed in September 2010just after the bird first volume on the stadium. A relationship with curves. Recently, during An interview with The worldBernabé remembered that he arrived at Lazio almost almost in a stroke of luck. “After flying to the eagle at the stadium, the sound of ‘with you split a,’ a man so excited that I told him would do the same, for free, for his team, Lazio. He was the great journalist Andrea Pesciarelli“. That was the beginning of a professional arrow that ended the Cadiz living in Formllo, owned by the club. For a while the relationship between Bernabé and Lazio seemed to march relatively well. Two years ago the club broadcast A statement to publicly transmit your condolences for the death of your father and last year He did the same when he lost his brother or even celebrate his birthday. However, the passage of the Cadiz by Aquile He was also tarnished by the controversy. In 2021 Lazio already The exit door pointed to him After Bernabé caught doing the fascist greeting to the voice of “Duce, Duce!” At the end of a match, although later the club chose to back down and readmit it. The welfare has denied being fascist, although it does recognize being An admirer from Mussolini and Franco. And the great controversy arrived. The fascist greeting and his recognized “Admiration” for Franco and Mussolini’s legacies had a pass in the eyes of the Lazio directive. What did not have was what he did earlier this year: Show your penis. After passing through the operating room to insert him a Hydraulic prosthesisBernabé decided Show the results In networks. And he did it big, with photos and videos in which no details were saved. He was so proud of the result that he even talked about the issue in interviews, which aggravated the board of directors. Defenestrated in the act. To Claudio Lotito, president of Lazio, Senator and who presume If a Mass had not skipped in 67 years, the attitude of the welt (and the consequent mess in networks) bothered him so much that his pulse did not shake when he was fired. He has recognized himself. “When they warned me, it took me an hour to fire them both,” he presumed in An interview. “I preach values, command the eagle to generate enthusiasm among children and then this person has this behavior of moral decline. He has violated the ethical code of Al Lazio.” That ‘second’ fired of which Lotito speaks, by the way, was the team’s urologist, Gabriele Antoniniwho practiced the operation to Bernabé and posed in some photos after the operation. The statement Regarding the expulsion of the welt, of dry and very hard tone, it was published on January 13: “The club understands the shared pain that the loss of the eagle in the next games will cause fans, but believes that it is not possible for us, especially for the historical symbol of the eagle, being associated with a subject whose attitude has made the relationship inadmissible.” History is complicated. In case the waters did not go down enough, Bernabé did something that ended up rooting his relationship with Lazio: he continued installed at the Flamllo Sports Center alleging that he was convalescent of the penis surgery to which he had undergone. Pashed January, February, March, April, May, arrived June … and the patience of the club ended up consuming, which led him to broadcast A statement On the 28th in which he reported that, “fulfilling an order from the Tivoli court,” he had thrown Bernabé from his facilities. “The decision occurs after the termination of the contract months ago. The club, after numerous requests for voluntary eviction, has taken the appropriate measures to protect its assets and the operation of the sports environment,” Lazio alleges. Bernabé’s version is something different. In An interview with The world He ensures that eviction was executed days before stipulated and that when the Italian police knocked on his door to throw it, he had not yet recovered from the operation. “With erect penis for 11 days”. “Five policemen touched my door. I could barely move, but I opened. When the inspector looked at me I said: ‘If I want I get out of bed and … Read more

The last public employment offer leaves a revealing fact after years of record figures: Spain needs more officials

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In recent years, the Pedro Sánchez government has promoted public employment calls that have broken historical figures for the number of public employment places. However, the new Public Employment Offer (OPE) for 2025 that has just known a turning point marks. Although it will have 36,588 new places, this figure represents a reduction with respect to the previous calls, and shows a worrying reality: the lack of personnel in the administration. New call 2025. The New Public Employment Offer presented by the Executive contemplates a total of 36,588 places, which represents a decrease of 9% with respect to the 2024 offer that was 40,146 places. Specifically, the number of places corresponding to the General State Administration is reduced mainly, which this year adds 26,889 positions, that is, 4,500 less than the previous year. This marks a change of trend against the years in which the calls carried the label of “historical” for its volume of places. The Independent Trade Union and Officials (CSIF) summarize it Clearly: “The places are insufficient to cover the losses accumulated in the administration of the State in recent years”, in addition to the majority union of the officials, they slide that the absence of new budgets and the freezing of funds of the European Union are already noticed in this call. Distribution by bodies and lack of personnel. Among the bodies that will be reinforced their workforce are the State Security Forces and Bodies. According to official data, the National Police Corps will have 3,139 new places, 300 more than the previous year, while the Civil Guard will add 555, reaching a total of 3,713 new places. The army too It will increase its template In 2025, with the incorporation of 2,847 new troops, 200 more than in the previous year. For its part, the Central Administration will have 20,324 new free access places, which will add 6,565 internal promotion places, which must be covered with part of the new 20,324. In that quota, 8,851 places of new allocation are also included to strengthen citizen service services in the offices of the SEPE, foreigners, cadastre, issuance of the DNI, DGT, Social Security or Tax Agency. The challenge of the generational relief. Since the current government arrived at La Moncloa, he says have summoned 260,000 public employment places. As Minister Óscar López highlighted in the presentation of the OPE by 2025, this leaves an average of 32,522 annual public places. Even with that effort, the reality is that the structural needs of employment in the public sector continue to be effective. As reflected in the EPA data (Active Population Survey) of the first quarter of 2025, for the first time since 2018, public employment registers a decrease of 51,900 people in its template. Thus, although the calls try to compensate for accumulated casualties, the balance is still negative. One of the main challenges facing the administration is to absorb the Retirements planned for the next decade. According to collected data In the study on the aging of the templates in the General State Administration 2024, 59.95% of the staff of the General State Administration is over 55 years old. This aging forces the administration to Compensate retirement that each year occur, with new additions. In 2023, for example, the number of retirement was 10,758 officials, while only 8,770 new officials were incorporated to cover those places, leaving a deficit of 1,988 positions that were not covered that year. Below the average public employment in the OECD. Internationally, the data does not accompany. According to the report ‘Government at A Glance 2025’ Of the OECD, Spanish public employment represented in 2023 15.25% of the total active population, below the average of 18.41% of the OECD countries. In addition, despite the increase in the number of places, the Public Employment Growth It has been developed at the same rate as private employment, without equating the boom that other countries have applied to balance essential public services. In Xataka | The easiest oppositions to approve in Spain following three criteria: by agenda, for places and for requirements Image | Flickr (Treball Generalitat de Catalunya

Scientists launched a cow at the depths of the China Sea. They discovered eight unexpected visitors to the feast

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The ocean is full of surprises. Sometimes, as happened several years ago in Canada, the enigmas appear floating in the form of human feet adrift. However, in others, most, you have to go down to the depths to try to solve the mysteries. That was precisely what a group of researchers proposed. It all started by throwing the body of a cow. A cow at 1,600 meters. In one of the most unusual marine experiments carried out, a group of scientists He threw a dead cow at 1,629 meters deep in a continental slope of the South China Sea, in front of the Chinese island of Hainan, with the aim of simulating the sinking of a whale and studying the Behavior of scavengers of deep water. What they found surprised even the most experienced researchers: Eight sleepy sharks Pacific (Somniosus pacificus) They appeared in the place, marking the first documented observation of this species in the region. The finding not only unexpectedly expands the distribution map of this elusive shark, but also provides valuable information about its behavior patterns, food hierarchies, physiological adaptations and its possible geographical expansion. An unexpected visitor. Although the Pacific Sleeping Shark is a species with a wide distribution in the north of the Pacific Ocean (from Japan to Alaska and to the south to Baj real extension of its habitatits possible displacement due to climate change or even the existence of a stable population and not yet registered in that region. Food label. The recorded images By underwater cameras they not only confirmed their presence, but revealed unusual behavior for large predators: a kind of Shift systemin which sharks aligned to feed the body, giving the place to other individuals who approached from behind. This type of “Food label”rarely observed in predatory species, suggests that the order in food could be determined by the competitive intensity of each individual, instead of a chaotic struggle for resources, which would indicate a more complex level of social organization that was suspected in these animals. New clues. He study He also documented variations in behavior according to body size. The specimens that exceeded 2.7 meters in length were much more aggressive and direct In the attack on the carrion, while the smallest sharks opted for cautious movements, surrounding the body in circles before approaching. The employer suggests that even in an environment where food is scarce and random opportunities, sleepy sharks could have developed a coexistence strategy with hierarchical ranges that minimize direct conflict. One More Thing. Another remarkable finding was a behavior of Ocular retraction observed during feeding. Since this species lacks Iglestop membrane (The protective “third tab” that other vertebrates such as cats or certain reptiles have), researchers believe that this retraction reflects a Evolutionary adaptation To protect the eyes during bites or struggles, which brings a new data on the defensive physiology of these sharks in their natural environment. The unknown. And more, since the recordings also showed other revealing aspects. Namely: several sharks carried visible parasites In his eyes, identified Like copepodsalthough it was not possible to precisely classify the species. This detail reinforces biological parallelism among the sleeping sharks of the Pacific and their best -known relatives, the Greenland sharkswhich also usually host parasites in their visual organs. Apart from sharks, the experiment attracted a surprising variety of abyssal fauna, such as Caracol fish and numerous amphipodsall attracted by the source of decomposition organic matter. These records confirm that the deep areas of the South China Sea not only house a biodiversity still little documented, but could be more productive of what was believed so far, against the idea that tropical depths are biologically poorer than their polar counterparts. The great unknown. In the background, the presence of these sharks raises a crucial issue: is it a recent expansion of its rank due to global warming, or has it always been part of its habitat and simply had never been observed? It is known that the species has occasionally appeared in such remote regions like Palaos or the Solomon Islandswhich suggests that there could be more southern populations than the scientific literature indicates. However, the “frequent appearance” in the southwest of the China Sea, According to the team itself Researcher led by Han Tian, rather suggests a structural lack of data in a little explored region rather than a recent change in the distribution pattern. In that sense, the experiment with the body of Vaca has not only contributed a specific observation, but has opened a way to review key concepts on the marine biogeography of abyssal species. Know the depths. He find It underlines the usefulness of simple experiments, but carefully designed to obtain data on remote environments, inaccessible already often little understood. The idea of simulating a whale sinking with a cow was not only effective, but proved to be a powerful Ecological magnet able to reveal complex biological interactions. In a context where Climate change and Human activity They are altering ecosystems even at great depth, this type of research is crucial to understand the invisible functioning of the deep ocean. The appearance of eight sleeping sharks where no one was waiting for them, behaving with order, measured aggressiveness and sophisticated adaptive mechanisms, is one more proof that marine depths They keep secrets that we are barely beginning to understand. Image | Ocean-Lond-Atmosphere Research (2025) In Xataka | A Canadian coast had been receiving human feet for years. Science has resolved mystery In Xataka | Carnivorous crustaceans, devouring worms and missing bodies: the scientific mystery of the caimanes at the bottom of the sea

A trough ready to free us from the scorching heat, but charging its price on storms

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The worst of this warm episode has not yet arrived but there are those who already have their view at its end. It is not for less, as it is customary this summer, the only thing that is helping to reduce the thermometers is the arrival of storms. And again meteorologists foresee them. Change the trend. On Friday part of the peninsula will see A new transition Meteorological: The heat episode we now live will give way to storms. These stormy episodes will affect the north third and could be strong, leaving winds of intensity and hail. Dorsal and trough. Again, the alternation between scorching heat and intense storms is given by the succession of dorsal and trough, air masses in height under the influence of high and low pressures respectively. According to explains the geographer Samuel Biener in Meteoredthe change in the situation will come from the hand of an Atlantic trough driven in turn by the undulations of the stream in jet. Two seas to red live. There is another important element in the risk that these storms suppose in summer, Remember too Biener himself. It is in the seas, and more specifically in the temperature of its surface waters. Both the Western Mediterranean and the Eastern Cantabrian They are suffering their own “heat waves”. The waters of the surface in these regions have been accumulating several degrees above what would correspond to this time of year. This increases the risk of convective storms. Heat and moisture are transmitted to the air on the surface and then this air interacts with possible cold and dry air masses such as those dragged by the rush that approaches, generating important storms that discharge the humidity and energy accumulated in the environment. Uncertainty, for now. There is still uncertainty about the evolution of this new episode of storms but The forecasts From the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet), on Friday both cloudy skies are expected and “locally with a storm” rainfall. These will circulate from the west and will end up affecting most of the north third, being especially intense in the Eastern Cantabrian and Western Pyrenees. The situation is expected to refer towards the afternoon of Saturday, although the forecasts indicate the possibility that during the day there will be “strong and accompanied by storm” rainfall between the Eastern Cantabrian and the Northeast of Catalonia. For now the agency has not issued any warning related to these storms, but it is still early to rule out a worsening of the situation. In Xataka | The heat of the last weeks has been so extreme that we have already exceeded tropical nights: the equatorial nights are here Image | ECMWF

China no longer copy, they copy

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For a long time, Chinese dolls of sinister smile They hang from the bags of many celebrities and influencers. It is the main reason why Labubu have become a trend in 2025reaching to quadruple sales in what we have been. Not even luxury marks can resist the fever of Labubu. Louis Vuitton already has its own Charm For the bag and no, it’s nothing cheap. VIVIENNE. It is Louis Vuitton’s pet that has already been used previously in other products like these very expensive Wooden dolls. Amid the growing popularity of Labubu, the French brand has opted to sell versions of its pet in format Bag Chams. As with Labubu, there are many different designs, although little resemble the price. Much more expensive. Although there have been auctions where Authentic fortunes have been paid for a labubuthe normal price of one of these dolls is Between 25 and 35 euros. Louis Vuitton’s response to this trend of bags for bag costs 1,100 euros. These are the ‘fashionist’ models that combine premium materials such as calf skin and mink hair. If we choose the normal model made of polyester and skin, “only” will cost us 850 eurosalthough there are also more expensive models such as East 1,400 euros That has a special design. A Chinese success. We recently lived a Similar fever with Sonny Angelbut it is the first time that a consumerist trend of this type born in China becomes mainstream He counted This Chinese journalist That the secret of Labubu’s success is precisely that they don’t seem somewhat Chinese. They have an ambiguous design and that makes them attract a more massive audience. This coincides with a General improvement in the perception of the image of Chinapartially fed by cultural successes such as Tiktok, video games like ‘Black Myth: Wukong‘o Board successes like the one of’NE ZHA 2‘. They are also a symptom of something else: it was usually China behind the rest copying their productsbut that Louis Vuitton has entered the labubu wheel is a clear indicator that Something is changing. There are more. That Louis Vuitton has taken this step would also respond to another reason: sales in China are not going well. In the first quarter of the year, The benefits of the LVMH group fell 11% In Asia-Pacific, a region that includes China. Part of this decrease would have to do with a slowed economy that has caused the Fall in the demand for luxury goods. Taking into account that it is 30% of the total sales, it is not surprising that they are worried. Recently They opened a new ‘Flahgship’ store in Shanghai and the new luxury Labubu would be within the brand’s attempts to revive interest. Pop mart. It is the parent company under which several toys lines are marketed, although Labubu are undoubtedly the most successful of all. The boom of these dolls began in 2024 and only in China generated the equivalent of 355 million euros. We have barely spent the 2025 Ecuador and in China they have doubled sales, but it is that In the rest of the world growth is 480%. The interest is huge and falsifications begin to be a problem worldwide. In fact, I was recently in New York and I could see all the souvenir stores of China Town full of Labubus that were clearly not original. Labubus in Spain. Began at the end of 2024 with the Opening of the first mart pop store In Barcelona. The kilometer tails already glimpsed that something was cooked. Labubu are currently exhausted in all stores and the Wallapop or Milanuncios type sale platforms They have filled with these dolls, Most a Much higher prices than the original. But the worst part is that high demand is already being used to create Fraudulent websites That, in addition to selling counterfeit figures, they steal user data. Image | Louis Vuitton In Xataka | China promised them very happy with day 996. Until they realized that it was shot in the foot

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Renewing any device is always better if we can take advantage of any powerful offer. Thus, we can opt for something more powerful or interesting paying less along the way. If we are at a time when we seek to change laptop (ideal now before traveling in summer), we have a golden opportunity thanks to The new Website of Mediamarkt. This new event has a lot of interesting offers to renew laptop, no matter if we look for something simple to work or study, or, on the contrary, we want something powerful to play. To facilitate the task, we leave you below a selection of some of the most prominent: Acer Nitro V 15 Anv15-41-R11K, a great option to play 1080p, for 704.65 euros. ASUS VIVOBOOK S 14 OLED M5406NA-QD063Wwith 14 -inch OLED screen, by 749 euros. HP VICTUS 15-FB3033NSwith a current graph and 1 TB of SSD, by 1,199 euros. HP OMEN MAX 16-AH0019NSa high -end option, by 2,299 euros. Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 15abr8with very good value for money, for 479 euros. Acer Nitro V 15 Anv15-41-R11K The first option is Acer and is a gaming laptop with a tight price and that is perfect to play Full HD. This Nitro V comes with an Ryzen 7, 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD processor, so we will be well served by memory. The graph is an RTX 4060that despite being the previous generation, it is still a very good option if we are looking for something cheaper. If we put it in the cart, its price stays in 704.65 euros. Gaming portable-Acer Nitro V 15 ANV15-41-R11K, 15.6 “Full-HD, AMD Ryzen ™ 7735HS, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, GEFORCE RTX ™ 4060, without operating system * Some price may have changed from the last review ASUS VIVOBOOK S 14 OLED M5406NA-QD063W We now move on to an option that is perfect if we want something compact, easy to transport and with a very quality screen. This 14 -inch Asus Vivobook It has OLED screen (and Wuxga resolution) and its weight of just 1.3 kg will allow us to take it with us everywhere without discomfort. It comes with Co -cilot+, has 16 GB of RAM and now we have it reduced to the 749 euros. PORTIL – ASUS VIVOBOOK S 14 OLED M5406NA -QD063W COPILOT+ PC, 14 “Wuxga, AMD RYZEN ™ 5 7535HS, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, RADEON ™ 660M, W11 * Some price may have changed from the last review HP VICTUS 15-FB3033NS We are going with another gaming option, this time with an HP that brings a graph of the latest generation of Nvidia. This laptop brings an RTX 5060 under the hood, which will make us scratch much more performance thanks especially to DLSS 4. Besides, Your screen is 144 Hzit brings 1 TB of SSD and its Ryzen processor will give us more than plenty of power. Mediamarkt’s website leaves us for 1,199 euros. Gaming portable – HP victus 15 -FB3033NS COPILOT+PC, 15.6 “Full HD, AMD Ryzen ™ AI 7 350, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, RTX ™ 5060, without operating system, blue, blue * Some price may have changed from the last review HP OMEN MAX 16-AH0019NS We continue with another gaming laptop, also of this generation, but offering a higher game experience. This, which is also HP, comes with an rtx 5070 ti And its screen is a step above that the previous model (in fact, has a 240 Hz soda rate). Here we will have even more memory, since it has 32 GB of RAM. It comes out by 2,299 euros. Gaming laptop-HP OMEN MAX 16-AH0019ns, 16 “2.5K, Intel Core ™ Ultra 7-255HX, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, GeForce RTX 5070 TI, Windows 11 Home, Black * Some price may have changed from the last review Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 15abr8 We are now with the cheapest laptop on this list, perfect if we want something simple that allows us to work or study. The team in question, which is from Lenovo, has a 15.6 -inch screen, a Ryzen 5 and also has 16 GB of RAM and an SSD of 512 GB. It comes with Windows 11 installed as standardwhich is ideal to start using it without complications as soon as they receive it. Right now it comes out of 479 euros. Portable – Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 15abr8, 15.6 “Full -HD, AMD Ryzen ™ 5 5625U, 16 GB, 512 GB SSD, Radeon ™ Onboard Graphics, Windows 11 Home * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Buying, Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo In Xataka | Best laptops in quality price. Which to buy depending on the use and eight recommended models In Xataka | What is the best portable computer to work in 2025. Tips and recommendations

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