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10.12.2020 / 02:01

Mexico’s coronavirus czar faces criticism as COVID-19 surges

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.There’s hardly a Mexican who doesn’t know Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez by now. Mexico’s undersecretary of prevention and health promotion has sat across from reporters at 7 p.m.

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‘A brutal blow’: A bill threatens dozens of trust funds that support Mexican science

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega , Inés Gutiérrez JaberScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.MEXICO CITY—Mexican scientists clad in lab coats and carrying handmade signs gathered here yesterday outside the Chamber of Deputies to protest a bill that would cut a lifeline for many Mexican research centers. The bill, which appears likely to pass, would terminate 109 trust funds run by public research centers and government institutes, one-third of them devoted to science and technology.

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‘We’re losing an entire generation of scientists.’ COVID-19’s economic toll hits Latin America hard

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega , Lindzi WesselScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.As the COVID-19 pandemic surged across the United States and Europe in February, scientists at Mexico’s Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav) sprang into action. They quickly converted one of their research labs into a diagnostic clinic, and by mid-March, as cases began to mount in Mexico, they had launched seven other COVID-19–related projects.Then a second crisis hit.

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'We’re losing an entire generation of scientists.' COVID-19's economic toll hits Latin America hard

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega , Lindzi WesselScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.As the COVID-19 pandemic surged across the United States and Europe in February, scientists at Mexico’s Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav) sprang into action. They quickly converted one of their research labs into a diagnostic clinic, and by mid-March, as cases began to mount in Mexico, they had launched seven other COVID-19–related projects.Then a second crisis hit.

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A conservation scientist enlists Colombia’s ex-guerrillas in a new cause: preserving their country’s biodiversity

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega For more than 50 years, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) fought a civil war sparked partly by social inequities from the remote jungles of Colombia. In 2016, FARC and the Colombian government signed a peace agreement.

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Pools in the Mexican desert are a window into Earth’s early life

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Valeria Souza Saldívar never planned to devote her life to a remote and ancient oasis more than 1000 kilometers north of her laboratory in Mexico City. But a call in early 1999 changed that.“It’s one of the best cold calls I’ve ever made,” says James Elser, a limnologist at the University of Montana.

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Scientists rush to defend Venezuelan colleagues threatened over coronavirus study

Masked pedestrians crowded a sidewalk near a bus stop in Caracas, Venezuela, on Monday.

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New helmet and tent aim to protect health care workers from the coronavirus

Kevin Ward, a University of Michigan emergency medicine physician, tests a negative pressure helmet he helped design.

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Saber-toothed anchovies roamed the oceans 45 million years ago

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Artificial intelligence takes on song-composing duties in Eurovision-inspired contest

Members of the Australian band Uncanny Valley trained an algorithm using sounds from koalas.

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Health care workers seek to flatten COVID-19’s ‘second curve’—their rising mental anguish

Health care workers are experiencing a crushing psychological burden in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Top neuroscientist leaves Mexican university as former trainees allege sexual harassment

Multiple women alleged sexual harassment by Ranulfo Romo Trujillo of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, University City.

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Don’t freak out: These are the microbes living on your tongue

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