I thought I had a problem with the ABS of my car, but it caught me in surprise to see that it was something completely unexpected: rats

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The ABS light flashing on the dashboard is never a good sign. Almost none Witter of the dashboard It is, but when the engine witness also adds, you start imagining four -digit figures in the workshop budget. The funny thing is that when I took my car to fix it, I discovered something that I never imagined what would happen: The rats ended up biting several cables Internal of my car. The initial diagnosis. When I arrived at the workshop with the warning lights on, the mechanic, after an inspection of the car, assured me that I could change everything The ABS system. A new one for my Seat Ibiza TDI 1.9 of 2005 can be a rather important expense, one of those expenses that you think if you better pass it, since it is dangerously approaches the price through which I could sell the car today. The price of the second -hand and scrapping ABS system, the thing changes. One can lead normally if the ABS does not work, but it is a risk for security, since it compromises the emergency braking and we do not have that help that the car gives us at critical moments, allowing our brakes to end up blocking. The real problem. After almost a week in the workshop and a more detailed inspection, the mechanic discovered the authentic cause of the failure: the ABS system cables and some that communicate with the engine They had been bitten. It was not a normal wear or component failure, but the rats had been roying the car cables. For a rat, gnawing cables and objects that are in its path is their day to day, since their teeth do not stop growing throughout their lives and need some means to polish their teeth. What a pity they had to run into my car. Unexpected, but in a way, relieved. What seemed like a serious problem with the brake system and the emergency light of the engine was solved with a cable repair. The joke came out for about 120 euros. A considerable relief compared to the complete change of the ABS that initially the mechanic had raised. From the workshop they repaired the damaged cables and the dashboard warning indicators were turned off. The background problem. Now the real challenge is not in the car, but in the garage. It is a private garage under a floors building where several vehicles park. Days before I had already seen a rat that was shot from under my car to a hole that is right next to my parking space. From the workshop they recommended preventive measures such as spraying in the vain motor or placing camphor balls, especially useful when the car remains a long time stopped. Of course, this should be done with the car standing and cold. I bought the spray as a temporary measure until they finished solving the hole in the garage. And now what. The priority is to cover the garage hole where the rats access, since the alternative remedies will be of little if the problem persists right next where I appear. Fortunately, it seems that garage insurance will cover the workshop spending, which good news for that part. In addition, we are already mobilizing the community to solve the problem of rats. I could have changed their garage directly, although things are not currently to make this decision lightly. We will see what everything is left. Cover image | Michael Fusert and Svetozar Cenisev In Xataka | The best -selling cars in 2024 and 2025 in Spain

The debate about whether it is better to walk quickly or walk slowly is settled. At least if what we are looking for is our health

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Walking is an exercise that not only has the advantage of helping us maintain good health, it is also affordable for people with difficulties to exercise in other ways due to circumstances such as age or rhythm. However An old debate persistsSI for extract the benefits of this exercise We can go with a relaxed step or if on the contrary a prescription rhythm is essential. If there are no reasons such as injuries that can be aggravated with sports, physical activity, even in “small doses”, it will always be better than inactivity. That is why the debate about the ideal of walking slowly suits us is easy to settle: walking slowly is better than not walking. Of course, experts tend to agree that, if we have the possibility, better to accelerate the step. Walking can help our health in different ways. Our heart health is, surely, the one that can be appreciated most to wear comfortable footwear and go for a walk, but it is not the only one. Walk has been related to a lower impact of diseases such as diabetes but can also have psychological benefits such as stress reduction or help Improve concentrationespecially when we walk through natural environments. But then what about the Benefits of walking quickly? Again, cardiovascular health is in the center of the debate. A study Recent in highlighting this is the one published in 2024 in the magazine Atherosisclerosis. The study, which had almost 20,000 participants, analyzed their mortality in a period of 9.4 years. The team responsible for the analysis detected an inverse relationship between the rhythm with which they used to walk and the risk of death and suffering from cardiovascular diseases. Studies that relate the rhythm of our gait with the benefits that walk gives our health They are diverse. Some also cover the relationship between speed and cognitive deterioration. Some examples are found in The review published in 2016 In the magazine Ageing Research Reviews. The team responsible for the analysis found a relationship between the speed of the passage when walking and the cognitive deteriorationalthough it was not conclusive about the existence of a direct causal relationship since it could also be cognitive deterioration that makes us walk more slowly. Lose weight Weight is an important risk factor in many diseases. That is why, although thinning does not have to imply that we will be healthier, it can be useful to reduce this risk or as a simple motivation towards healthier habits. Among them, exercise. If our goal is to lose weight, accelerate the step It can also be helpful. Of course, the context can be important, as a group of researchers recently discovered. In Your studypublished in 2024 in the magazine Sports Science & Medicine, They detected that Genetics could be decisive when reducing our weight through this type of exercise. Walking is an affordable and healthy exercise, but science finds more and more evidence that it is best to accelerate the step if we want to make the most of the benefits of our walks. Walking, even at a leisurely rhythm, can help our health, but can also help us take the habit necessary to direct us, little by little, towards a more active life. Step by step. In Xataka | The 10,000 daily steps were always a myth. Science already knows what the optimal number is Image | MARTINDALSGAARDSØRENSEN

The US and Spacex wanted to revolutionize the delivery of weapons anywhere in the world. A tropical bird had other plans

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Starship is called to be the ship-cohete that Put humanity on Marsbut years ago he caught the attention of Pentagon For something much more earthly: transport military merchandise from one point to another on earth. But what they expected from Spacex And the Pentagon was an enemy who put those plans in check. Tropical birds. Revolutionizing military logistics. After a series of incidents, in 2024 we witnessed something unprecedented. He Starship propeller rocket was intercepted with millimeter accuracy by a mechanical arm. This, which seems little thing, is the starting gun for the revolution of space missions because it promises to reduce costs and shorten times because the rockets are no longer disposable between missions. Long before achievement, in 2021, the Pentagon already showed interest in these capabilities. The United States Air Force had an internal program called ‘Rocket Cargo‘With an ambitious objective, but easy to explain: transport huge amounts of military load from one point to another on the planet in a matter of minutes. Suspense. We are talking about the ability to deliver up to 150 tons of load anywhere on Earth in a maximum time of 90 minutes, which would imply an unprecedented and unprecedented deployment, as well as A tremendous strategic advantage. However, something like this requires evidence beyond those that Spacex itself is doing with its ship-cohete, and the idea of the Air Force was to start trying these rockets in a Pacific Atolón. It is not going to be. How can we read in Reuterson that remote island at 1,300 kilometers southwest of Hawaii, at least 14 species of tropical birds live. And, according to biologists, Spacex and Air Force tests would damage these species that nest in the area. Atoll location And relocation. This atoll, called Johnstonhas only 2.6 square kilometers and is part of the National Marine Monument of the remote Pacific Islands, so, as a source of the Air Force confirmed to the American military magazine ‘Stars and Stripes’, they will have to look for a new ‘patio’ of testing. According to the FFAA spokesman to the American magazine, they are already “exploring alternative places to develop the program”. Mistreating atolls. It is not the first time That the activities of the Musk company damages the flora and fauna of a place. It happened in Boca Chica, Texas, in 2023, when an explosion ended both with nests and coastal bird eggs, which caused legal problems to the company. Problems that Musk reacted with his particular and curious sense of humor, stating that he would stop eating tortillas for a week to compensate. And the truth is that this is a small victory for the tropical birds of the Johnson atolion, since the atolls of the quadrant and their fauna did not have so much luck in the pastwhen they were chosen as Objective for nuclear tests During the cold war, ending with entire islands of a plumazo and causing the Fear of nuclear radiation long before the Chernobyl accident. Images | United States Army Chemical Materials Agency, Steve Jurvetson, Tubs In Xataka | The US is leaving Ukraine without help, so Ukraine has proposed something to Europe: you give me the money, I manufacture my arms

Until a couple of centuries ago, nobody had yet invented them

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It is one of those things that we give so however sitting that we may have never wondered: Why do books have chapters? The answer is, in reality, quite simple, and it has a lot to do with the way we have to tell stories and, above all, with a genuinely human aspiration, and whose origins date back to the beginning of time: make our lives easier. Chapter 1. We must clarify that when we talk about chapters, we are doing it in the broader conception of the term: we talk rather to divide a text into successive and organized points. As we are organizing this article, without going any further: in epigraphs headed by a title that summarizes the content of each section, he adds or clarifies it. But this was not always common currency. Nicholas Dames, author of the Book Scent. It is a legal tablet that dates back to the second century BC. According to Dames to An ABC podcastthe text had a “continuous law, but it was segmented and those segments had short titles.” That is, the first work of the chapters is to organize informative texts, to help the reader locate the information. This use began to spread, and thus we reached a parallel invention, the index: during part of ancient history, the most common support was the roll, sometimes it was accompanied by a list of chapters in a smaller scroll. Separate things. Dames explains That this separation in epigraphs was unheard of: two thousand years ago there was no current conception of writing and, for example, the words that appeared in the rolls were not separated, there were no spaces between them. The authors did not care about those things, the editors were in charge of the texts in the texts when undertaking a task called “capitulation.” It was these editors, sometimes scholars of the time, sometimes medieval monks, who divided the works into chapters to make them more understandable. The Bible, point and apart. What can attract attention, according to what countsIt is that the Bible was never divided into chapters, but that this action was carried out, in very different ways, between the fourth and thirteenth centuries. It was divided with innumerable ways, sometimes in long chapters, sometimes in short sections, which further confused the study and dissemination of a book that has already had a labyrinthine story. It was in the thirteenth century (or that is believed) when the one that would later be Archbishop of Canterbury, set the division into chapters that we know today. This division met critics as distinguished as the philosopher John Locke. And things changed. The Bible was a definitive turning point: for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the novel became an absolutely massive entertainment format, the authors They thought their stories with the division by chapters In mind, with attention placed on the rhythm. Subsequent forms of diffusion, such as deliveries novels or, at present, television series are already meditated from very first stages of the conception of the story with the division of chapters in mind. Header | Chapter VII of ‘Dracula’, Minotaur edition illustrated by Tomás son In Xataka | In Spain a book is published every six minutes. It is the symptom of a bubble that does not stop inflating

A new membrane makes it possible (and cheap)

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Neither open mines on the earth’s surface or pierce the background of the ocean. The next lithium fever may not require dynamite or excavators. Rather, something simpler: a thinner membrane than a hair, designed to capture the valuable white gold that drives the new technological era in which we live. A new path. A group of researchers from the National Argonne Laboratory of the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the University of Chicago They have created A membrane capable of extracting lithium from salt water with great efficiency and low cost. Like hair. This membrane is made of an abundant clay, the vermiculite, which costs about $ 350 per ton. But the secret is how clay has been manipulated: the team has achieved Peel the vermiculite to two -dimensional layers, from just a Metro Metro, which then stacked one over another. They placed microscopic pillars of aluminum oxide, which maintain the stable and functional structure even under water. How did they achieve stability? At this point you have to get a little more technical. The researchers infused the membrane with sodium cations, which changed their superficial load from neutral to positive. In this state, the membrane repels more strongly to magnesium ions (with load +2) than those of lithium (with load +1), which allows a much more precise filtration. In addition, by adding more sodium the pores of the material are narrowed, which further favors the capture of lithium and allows only the smallest ions, such as sodium or potassium. A very precious resource. Who has Lithium knows that part of world geopolitics dominates. If not, they tell China, that since the beginning of the century adopted a deliberate strategy large -scale investment throughout the value chain of critical minerals. The result of that bet is that, currently, China is the main world refining of 19 of the 20 strategic minerals evaluated by the International Energy Agency (IEA). However, the way to extract it is still Very expensiveslow, pollutant and Geopolitally unstable. Today, production is in the hands of a few countries, which staggers the global supply chain. And although sea water and underground salmueras contain vast lithium reserves, extracting it has so far an impossible mission: too expensive, too inefficient. Until now. The idea is novel, but not so much. China always carries the front, that’s undeniable. The Asian giant too The idea of extracting lithium from the sea has emergedbut with a completely different approach: a floating device that uses solar energy to boost extraction. The system, developed by the University of Nankín and known as Stles, generates pressure by solar evaporation to pass the lithium ions through a membrane with nanoparticles. Both projects share an objective – access the lithium dissolved in the water without resorting to traditional mining – but differ in its technology: one uses selective filtration with ionic load; The other, solar perspiration as a motor force. Together, they show that the future of lithium may not be in the subsoil, but floating on the surface of the sea, driven by avant -garde science. Dreaming of success. If it reaches the industrial scale, this technology could radically transform global access to lithium. Countries without mines but with coasts, underground salmueras or even wastewater could become new actors in the market. In addition, technology is not only worth for lithium. According to the equipment, the same principle could be used to recover other key minerals such as nickel, cobalt and rare earth, or even to purify drinking water eliminating pollutants. Image | Pxhere and Argonne Xataka | You have to wait 17 years for a mine to give results. China already has two decades of advantage

This album has been reproduced millions of times in Spotify but has not generated absolutely no benefit

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‘Crisis (The Worthless Album)’ by Valentin Hansen It is not, of course, a normal album. Because Hansen is not a normal musician. It is rather A performative artist that he plotted this conceptual album with a single objective: not generating benefit, not leaving a trace on Spotify, demonstrating how absurd streaming They are getting used to us. 30 songs. In 2021, the artist based in Berlin Valentin Hansen launched this ‘crisis (The Worthless Album)’ which consisted of 30 tracks, all of them of 29 seconds. Why this duration? He stayed for a second to monetize them, generate Royalties or to be registered in the metrics of the platform, according to the rules of use of the platform. But here comes the amazing: he used a smartphones hacked to reproduce the album countless times. And demonstrate that it would not even generate benefits. A design issue. As They count on contemporary100‘Crisis (The Worthless Album)’ won zero euros in total, but “not by accident, but for a matter of pure design.” Its purpose was to generate exactly that benefit. It’s about a criticism of the economy of streamingwhere an artist earns $ 0.004 per reproduction, but algorithms favor mainstreamto what is already established purely economic interests, which falls into a very complicated mousetrap to make profitable. “I want to show how broken the system is,” Hansen said about his experiment. Real songs. Hansen is a real musician. It makes a self -conscious and hyperproduced indie (in fact, ‘crisis’ has eight real songs, only that the tracks are interrupted every 29 seconds, as has been said, thus starting each song in three or four pieces impossible to make profitable) and, in fact, ‘crisis’ arose as a reaction to its most popular song, ‘Killing a Friend’, after 1,7 million reproductions, only got 2,000 euros. Hence the criticism of the Spotify payment system: said in an interview than the initiative Bandcamp Fridayin which the platform gives all its income to artists, is the most reasonable way to make money with music in streaming. Other experiments in Spotify. It is not the first attempt to play with Spotify’s legal possibilities and vericuetos: Royalties). All completely silent. The band encouraged their followers to reproduce the album in continuous repetition while they slept, generating royalties. The goal? Finance with that money a tour of free concerts. And it worked: in seven weeks and after about 5.5 million views, ‘Sleepify’ generated $ 20,000. Of course, Spotify did not like this sympathetic hairmade and eliminated the album of its platform, adducing violations of its content policies and commenting that, as an effect of the media impact of ‘Sleepify’, they had received a large number of silent albums. Spotify ended up modifying its legal section, prohibiting issues in full in silence. Spotify mandates. For what Hansen’s experiment serves is to talk about the absolute dominance of Spotify in the industry and how unfair it is, therefore, that he has so much power and can decide how artists are rewarded and in what terms. And how that benefits the platformbut not to musicians. Therefore, it is important that in the face of the propaganda that Spotify is democratizing and verticalizing musicdiscordant voices such as Hansen still dare to denounce an unfair situation with artists. In Xataka | We already know what the key to something that seemed impossible, to earn money in Spotify was: being an AI

A garbage cube of 2,000 ago in Mallorca exposes the star product of Roman fast food: Zorzal’s skewer

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The concept of “fast food“It is currently strongly associated with that of”junk food”. It usually involves a not very healthy dish due to the presence of processed foods. But fast food really exists For centuries And the Romans, of course, have something to say there. And a recent study puts on the table an important fast food industry in Roman times to northern Mallorca. The star dish? Singing birds. “Popina”Alejandro Valenzuela is a researcher at the Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies in Mallorca and the author of a Published article in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology in which he details how in the Roman city of Pollentiahe Zorzal He was the protagonist of street food. Founded in the 123 AC to the north of Mallorca, Pollentia was an imperial city for the empire due to its location in the Mediterranean and its ports that They favored trade With the island. Today is an archaeological site in which we have a curious and small theater, but in its day it must have been a very busy city, a bustling shopping center in which food played an essential role. Inside the shops, were the ‘Popinae‘. These are small establishments where you could eat something fast and have a wine before following the way. They were focused on the lowest classes of Roman society. Searching in the garbage. This was something common in Roman cities due to their rhythm of life. In Herculano and Pompeii you can see some ruins in good condition of Themopoliumwhich are more like taverns for somewhat more wealthy people, but basically, in both cases there was a bar with amphorae to get some hot food, serve the client and that it followed on their way. An example of Thermopolium Valenzuela, what interested him was to know what was in those mud vessels, but to discover what the inhabitants who were walking for Pollentia had to look in their garbage. Near one of those popinas there was a septic tank of a few meters deep in which everything was thrown. Part of the garbage was ceramic, which has allowed to date the date of use of the well between 10 AC and 30 AD What else was there? A large number of mammalian bones, birds and fish. And the bones of the birds are the ones that caught their attention. Pollentia location in Mallorca in image A. in B, the location of the well. In C, the meters at which a greater concentration of bones were found Fast Food Bird. Although there were several species, such as chicken, the bones were mostly slut. They are small singing birds associated with the diet of the upper classes of the Roman empirebut here we are in a very different context: popular food at street level. The remains highlighted the skulls and sternons of those birds, which indicated one thing: the most juicy parts should be the ones that served in the popina. As with other birds, the extremities and the upper part of the chest are the most juicy, and Valenzuela estimates that removing that juicy meat allowed the food seller to cook those parts quickly to the grill or in oil to serve it quickly. It is a meat that hardly takes a few seconds to cook. The darker, the more presence of parts they found in the black well. Within the red perimeter, the most fleshy parts and their associated bones, little present in the well Seasonal. There is also the possibility that customers sit down and consume the zorzal in dishes, since ceramic remains could indicate that there was a dishes, but due to the size of the bite, Alejandro Comment In Live Science that, within the “context of street food, it is also plausible to serve in skewer to facilitate consumption.” In the end, except exceptions, food in ancient times was linked to seasons and the foal is a seasonal product that would have integrated well into a diet like that of Roman cities with others like domestic chicken either European rabbittwo species whose remains would also have served in this restaurant Fast food of Pollentia. But the most important thing is that this finding makes the belief that the Zorzal was a luxury bite for the Romans staggers because the Popinae They were not precisely the premises that most frequented the High classes. Images | Daniele Florio From Rome, Dion art In Xataka | The world ranking of ultraprocess food: the countries that most and less consume it worldwide

Not for pleasure, but because the intestine has memory

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A year ago, every time I ate something, my belly swelled like a balloon. I felt heavy, with gases, uncomfortable. I did not understand what happened to me, until I tested positive for bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine or its short version, Sibo. I started an antibiotic treatment and a very restrictive diet. I left gluten, dairy, nuts, fruits … almost everything. And when it seemed that I finally felt better, the strangest part of the process came: I had to reintroduce some foods, little by little, as if it were a vaccine; but I did, I would become intolerant. Increasingly widespread. Increasingly widespread. In both medical consultations and conversations, surely the term Sibo (for its acronym in English, bacterial intestinal overgrowth) is no longer unknown. This condition describes an imbalance in the intestinal microbiota: bacteria that should be found in the colon end proliferating in the small intestine, an environment where they should normally be almost non -existent. This invasion causes varied and annoying symptoms, such as abdominal swelling, gases, pain, diarrhea or constipation, According to Mayo Clinic. It is estimated that up to 15% of the Spanish population suffers from it, and is more frequent in women between 30 and 50 years, According to the Spanish Society of Primary Care Physicians (Semergen). Its diagnosis has increased in recent years thanks to greater awareness and evidence such as the breath test, a non -invasive technique that measures the amount of gases produced by bacteria after ingesting carbohydrates. After diagnosis. It is followed by a low diet in Fodmaps, a protocol that eliminates the most fermentable foods to relieve symptoms. It is not a cure in itself, but it helps reduce gas production and abdominal discomfort while antibiotic treatment takes effect. The problem comes later. We talk to Jesús Guardioladietitian-nutritionist, to understand what happens in that critical phase: food reintroduction. “A low diet in Fodmaps should not be maintained in time because, when restricting so much, it can affect nutritional diversity and microbiota. But also, if you stop consuming certain foods for a long time, you can lose tolerance to them,” he explains. The intestine also forgets. Stop eating gluten does not cause celiacy. This is an autoimmune disease that only appears in genetically predisposed people. However, eliminating it prolonged can generate an unexpected reaction: that the body tole it worse when reintroducing it, Guardiola points out. This can go through several mechanisms: enzymatic (the body stops producing enzymes such as lactase, necessary to digest lactose), immunological (less exposure can alter the immune response), or by changes in the microbiota (bacteria in charge of digesting that food disappear). From Monash Universityin Australia, an institution that developed the diet has explained about these effects in prolonged restrictions can reduce functional tolerance and affect microbial diversity. But not a real intolerance. No, of course. The point is that it has been shown that eliminating food groups can alter microbiota and digestive capacity. The body needs gradual exposure to adapt, so the reintroduction must be done carefully and individually, According to the academic institution. “The key is to do it little by little, evaluating the symptoms, writing amounts and reactions. If you introduce many foods at the same time and something feels bad, you will not know what it was. And if you do it too fast, it is more likely that you can fall or that you suggest you thinking that it will sit badly,” Guardiola warns. The diagnosis of Sibo. The boom has also been accompanied by some controversy. Each time it is diagnosed more frequently, but not always with clear criteria: in many cases it is by discard, when other pathologies have been eliminated, and sometimes without conclusive evidence. This complicates the precise identification of the disorder, and can lead to confuse with food intolerances, functional disorders or, simply, with bad habits. From Semergen They have insisted that the treatment requires a comprehensive approach: not only medications, but also changes in the diet, lifestyle and analysis of the full medical history. To this is added an increasingly common problem: patients who adopt low fodmap diets on their own, without professional supervision, and who keep them for months or even years. Instead of improving, this can end up deteriorating even more intestinal health. What I learned during the process. Today I eat gluten again. I am not celiac. But I went through months of fear of food, not knowing if what I ate was healing or getting sick. I understood that there are no good or bad foods, but contexts, quantities and, above all, processes. Reintroduction is not just another part of treatment. It is a way to reconcile with food. And to understand that, sometimes, the problem was not bread, but how we stopped eating it. Sometimes healing means exposing yourself to what you thought you hurt you. In my case, yes: I had to inoculate gluten. Image | Unspash Xataka | It looks like flavored water, enters as a soda and carries protein as a shake: this is the clear protein

After the giant wolf, a huge bird of New Zealand wins points to be desixtinquida. And Peter Jackson has a lot to do

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‘Jurassic Park‘It is a science fiction story until it ceases to be. Not so much because there are those who consider current technology can bring dinosaurs backbut because there is already a company that is returning to life species that were extinguished thousands of years ago. It is colossal and are accepting requests to relive your favorite extinct animal. Whenever you call yourself Peter Jackson and have 25 million dollars to donate them. “Hobby”Jackson does not need presentations at this point. After several minor films, he jumped to world fame with his adaptation of ‘The Lord of the Rings‘, which allowed him to fulfill another of his dreams: roll a King Kong movie. In the tape the love that the New Zealander director feels for animals from other times, but that passion transcends to the screen was felt. Interestingly, one of the director’s fun is to collect Moa bones, to the point of having one of the largest private collections in the world focused on the bones of that extinct animal. “The movies are my work, but the moa are my hobby,” commented Jackson. From left to right a kiwi, an ostrich and a moa. They were … big De -sextinging the moa. But … what is a moa? In a nutshell, it’s like a kiwi, but about three meters high, about 250 kilos and can not fly either. His closest living relatives would be the aforementioned kiwis, but also the casuaries and the most similar would be Emú. New Zealand natives, the MOA was not extinguished: we extinguish it. When the Maori arrived at the islands, they began to hunt them and, although sightings have been reported in the nineteenth century, there is no evidence of this and it is considered that the MOA was extinguished, at least 500 years ago. Jackson comments that “any Neozyre child feels fascination with Moa.” Colossal comes into play. The filmmaker has between 300 and 400 Moa bones, and it will be that private collection the one that drives The animal’s de -sexyction thanks to a company called Colossal. It is not the first time we talk about them, since it is a company dedicated to biotechnology that has become popular for their interest in Return animal to life like mammoth or the Tasmania tiger. Also to Dodo. What they do is Take extinct animal DNAsomething that can be done from bones such as those that Jackson possesses and, the more remains, the better, and combine it with samples of relatives who live today. That is the easy thing: the complicated thing comes when, once the genetic information of the two DNA is combined, they are “filtering variants” to edit the genes and get exactly the animal they want. Finally, a living animal is used to give birth to the “new” creature. And it is not cheap. Money. A lot. In a recent financing round, Colossal Biosciences reached a assessment of 10,200 million dollars. At the end of 2024, Jackson already He collaborated With 10 million dollars in Colossal Bioscience, but now it has donated another 15 million for the company to place the MOA in its list of ‘goals’. This implies that we will take time to see the result. Now, Colossal is not just castles in the air. In April of this year, the company advertisement His first success: they had achieved resurrect the giant wolf, the Aenocyon Dirus. Now there are three puppies called Romulo, Remo and Khaleesi that, with six months of age – they were born in January this year – they have reached a weight of about 36 kilos and a length of 120 cm. They are expected to reach 180 cm and 68 kilos each. Jackson on the left and Ben Lamm, one of the founders of Colossal, on the right. Both with moa bones Complex. We will see what happens to the moa, but there are those who think that what is best colossal is Sell the motorcycle. With the MOA we are at a very early stage of the welcoming, but as we read in Physthe process seems to be more complex than with the wolves. Beth Shapiro is the chief scientist of Colossal and has commented that, unlike what happens with mammals, bird embryos develop inside eggs, so the process of transferring an embryo to a substitute mother will be very different from in vitro fertilization in mammals. Nic Rawlence is a paleontologist who works at the University of Otago and has commented that reviving New Zealand birds “is not scientifically possible with current technology.” The problem is that there is no good moa genome and its closest relatives are the Tinamúesof those who separated 60 million years ago. Criticism Apart from that, which is an important challenge, there is another issue: if an extinct animal is revived, is the patent of nature or the responsible company? Ben Lamm, the director of Colossal, has already explained that They do not want to monetize those animals directly, but sell its technology. But of course, he does not close the door to patent what they wish. And, although Alex, 10 would love to see a tyrannosaur in the streets of San Diego, the current Alex knows that no company is going to do it for love of art and that, probably, it does not matter that the habitat of that animal does not look like it or the least to the one he had at the time of his disappearance. Who is excited It’s Jackson. “Returning the moa to life would be so exciting, if not more, than any movie you could do.” Images | Colossal, Kkpcw, Gage Skidmore In Xataka | We just closed a primate. If someone believes that brings us closer to the cloning of humans, it is wrong

The best cloud storage services for your files

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Let’s tell you what are The best alternatives to Google Driveso that if you want to leave the Google cloud storage service you know of other similar services. We are going to tell you everything, from other similar suites also with office tools to other services only for the cloud. In each of the services we mention we will give you a description, Let’s tell you prices. Almost all offer free versions, although with amounts of anecdotal storage. In addition, keep in mind that we have based on services with our own cloud, not those that serve to self -bealo the cloud. And as we always say in Xataka Basics, if you think we have left some service that you think should be on the list, we invite you to Tell us your suggestions in the comments section. Thus, all readers can benefit from the knowledge of our xatakers. Dropbox It was one of the first cloud storage services to arrive, and years later and after the emergence of large companies such as Google and Apple, it is still one of the great references. It has good integrations, and you can install it in almost all desktop and mobile operating systems, in addition to complying with the main safety standards. Although end -to -end encryption is not for less expensive subscriptions. The big problem of this platform has always been that offers very little free spacejust 2 GB being able to use it on three devices. Then you have several payment options, ranging from 12 euros per month for 12 TB to 21 for 15 TB to share among several users. Internxt A Spanish cloud storage service, with the data housed in Europe and open source. Recently they have initiated a restructuring process, abandoning secondary projects such as photo apps, and have begun to focus only on their pure storage apps. In the past they have had a problem, but personally I have been encrypted from end to end for several months, and in addition to monthly subscriptions of 2 and 4 euros per month for 1 or 3 TB, you can buy storage with unique life payments. In addition, it includes services such as VPN, antivirus and more. Icloud Apple’s cloud storage platform, although it is not so versatile by not having Android application, although for Windows. Even so, It is the main alternative for Apple devices userssince it integrates perfectly in all of them. In its free version, ICloud offers only 5 GB of storage, and automatic synchronization on devices. Then you can pay from 1 euro to month for 50 GB to 10 for 2 TB, and there are even higher rates. Payment plans also have functions as a private relay, hide your email when registered, and so on. OneDrive OneDrive is the cloud storage service, and right now It is included in the Microsoft 365 subscriptionso in addition to the cloud you also have Word, Excel or PowerPoint. This places it as a direct Google Drive competitor, especially in terms of added services. OneDrive have applications for iOS, Android, Windows and Macos, and A free plan with 5 GB of storage In the cloud. It is not much, but for 2 euros a month you have 100 GB, for 10 you have 1 TB, and then you can go up. Pcloud With servers housed in Europethis Swiss company has a large amount of prices, with native applications for Windows, Macos, Linux, Android or iOS, in addition to extensions for browsers. It has prices ranging from 5 and 10 euros per month for 500 GB and 2 TB of storage, to plans of life paymentwith a unique payment to have your storage forever and without quotas. Proton drive Proton is a Swiss company that offers an amount of services, including one of cloud storage. It is much more expensive than the averagealthough focusing on privacy, and includes online documents editor. It offers only 5 GB for free, and in its payment plans you have 200 GB for 5 euros or 500 GB for 13 euros. The Tera costs 20 euros, although there is a 40% discount if you pay annually. MEGA Mega was created by the creator of Megaupload several years ago, and it has been possible to place as a great reference for cloud storage and file sharing. In addition to cloud space, its payment subscriptions include a VPN and a password manager. In its free mega modality it gives you 20 GB of storage with unlimited transfers. Then you have pro versions with prices of 10 euros for 3 TB or 20 euros for 10 TB, something less in each if you pay annually. In general, is a bit cheaper than other alternatives, offering a little more space. NordLocker NordvPN managers also have their own cloud storage service. It is private, encrypted and safeOr, with applications for Windows, Macos, IOS or Android, although you can also access from any browser. This service is optimized for the safety and privacy of your files, with a good end -to -end encryption. This service offers a free account with only 3 GB of storage, but you also have 500 GB for $ 8 per month or 2 TB for $ 20. Prices are reduced to less than half When you hire an annual plan, where 2 TB leave for $ 7 a month. Box Another platform that has been available for a long time, although it is a bit more code than other alternatives. Its free subscription offers 10 GB, but with a load limit of 250 MB maximum per file, while for 12 euros per month you only have 100 GB. However, it is a versatile platform with many integrations with third -party services, and that has applications for almost all platforms. His great asset are business plans With free storage, which have a 25% discount if you pay annually. Jottacloud It is a Norwegian cloud storage service, with servers housed in Europe that They work … Read more

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