The threat of the ‘Komsomolets’: A Soviet nuclear submarine has been leaking radiation from the seabed for four decades
The K-278 has been emitting radioactive material since it sank in 1989, although torpedoes with atomic warheads resist corrosion
The keys to the long legal process facing Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores in the US
The former president of Venezuela and his wife, who say they are ‘prisoners of war,’ will have to defend themselves against charges punishable by up to 30 years in prison
A healthy pregnancy doesn’t depend solely on the woman: why the father’s health is crucial for child development
A study in ‘The Lancet’ says that besides biological factors such as sperm quality, sociocultural variables also influence offspring
The Nazca culture’s legacy of adaptation offers clues to the current climate crisis
On the southern coast of Peru, pre-Hispanic aqueducts survive, designed to manage water during periods of extreme weather such as those currently being experienced
The cockfighting business on the border: Illegal breeding farms in the US and birds sold for thousands of dollars to cartels in Mexico
An investigation by two NGOs indicates that some of the main breeders of fighting birds have operations in both countries and supply hundreds of thousands of specimens to criminal organizations each year
Shakira: ‘I appreciate life and the good things that happen, because I’ve gone through some really bad things’
With a three-decade career and a 400,000-person show in Mexico City’s Zócalo under her belt, the Colombian singer prepares to carry on with her tour — and play in Spain for the first time in eight years
How AI giants tried to storm the last stronghold of the human mind: the math olympiads
EL PAÍS reconstructs what many media outlets sold as ‘the news story of the year,’ and some of its protagonists described as a ‘disgrace’: the supposed ‘gold medal-level performance’ by big tech, which overshadowed the real competition involving 600 youngsters
Why hunger changes our mood (for the worse)
The physiological causes of being ‘hangry’ were already known. However, new studies now demonstrate the emotional ones
What happens when a trans person decides to stop hormone therapy?
In a world where changing the gender on your ID card does not require medical documentation, some argue that — far from regretting it — it is possible to be trans without treatment
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