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Monday, 13 July 2026 · 07:00 Europe/Madrid · ventana últimas 24 h

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The Guardian (World) 2026-07-12 08:00 en

First patients enrolled in record-breaking Ebola treatment trial in DRC

Two drugs are being trialled in the Ituri region in a programme set up just six weeks after the outbreak was declared, with hopes it will reduce mortality rates There is no approved drug to help the medical teams scrabbling to save lives in the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – but there are hopes that could change within months as the first patients are enrolled in a treatment trial. It is a record pace to set up and start this kind of research, scientists said, with patients enrolled just six weeks after the outbreak being declared a public health emergency of…

The Guardian (World) 2026-07-12 05:00 en

A revolution in ruins: fury amid the rubble of a housing project in quake-hit Venezuela

Discontent with Trump-backed government mounts as Chávez heirs struggle to respond to disaster for which they seem ill-prepared Even before two powerful earthquakes reduced the OPPE 25 government housing project to an anarchy of shattered concrete and broken lives, the foundations of Hugo Chávez’s populist “Bolivarian” revolution were shaking in what was once a hotbed of support. Gabriel González remembers his elation when, in 2013, he received the keys to his freshly completed apartment in one of the 12-floor tower blocks El Comandante had ordered to be built in an affluent corner of the…

The Guardian (World) 2026-07-13 01:09 en

At least 27 killed in fire at Bangkok pub with another 22 critically injured

The fire is one of the deadliest such incidents in the popular tourist destination in ⁠recent years A fire at a popular pub in Thailand’s ⁠capital, Bangkok, has killed 27 ⁠people, with another 22 ​in critical condition, officials said on Monday, in one of the deadliest such incidents in the tourism hub in recent years. The prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, ‌who visited the site of the fire in the early hours of Monday, told reporters that based on survivor accounts, the pub rapidly filled with smoke after a fire broke out, forcing ‌many to run to the back of the venue near the bathrooms.…

Le Monde (International) 2026-07-13 04:50 fr

EN DIRECT, guerre au Moyen-Orient : les Etats-Unis mènent de nouvelles frappes en Iran, qui riposte en ciblant des bases du Golfe utilisées par Washington

L’Iran a condamné les nouvelles frappes américaines survenues sur son territoire dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi, reprochant à Washington d’avoir « réduit à néant tous les efforts de ces derniers mois » visant à rétablir la paix dans la région. Les Etats-Unis ont annoncé avoir bombardé « des dizaines de cibles », visant à empêcher Téhéran « d’attaquer les équipages civils et navires commerciaux » dans le détroit d’Ormuz.

Le Monde (International) 2026-07-13 04:00 fr

La mort de Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani, le bâtisseur du Qatar moderne

​Le souverain, qui a régné sur le pays de 1995 à 2013, s’est employé à faire exister l’émirat sur la scène internationale. C’est grâce à lui que le pays s’est doté d’une télévision qui rayonne dans tout le Moyen-Orient, d’une compagnie aérienne tentaculaire et d’une énorme base américaine.

Le Figaro 2026-07-12 13:22 fr

Au cœur de l’été, le blues persistant des pompiers volontaires : «On nous dit qu’on est des “machines”, puis on reçoit zéro reconnaissance»

RÉCIT - Piliers du dispositif, les volontaires représentent 80% des effectifs des sapeurs pompiers. Alors qu’à chaque période estivale, les incendies les mobilisent massivement, ceux interrogés par Le Figaro expriment une lassitude, un manque de considération. Ils se confient sur cette crise des vocations.

South China Morning Post 2026-07-12 22:00 en

Wu Shicun on why Beijing will not rule out Scarborough Shoal construction

Wu Shicun is the founding president of China’s National Institute for South China Sea Studies and chairman of the Huayang Centre for Maritime Cooperation and Ocean Governance. In this interview, the first in a series about the South China Sea dispute, he discusses ways Beijing can respond to rival claimants. This interview first appeared in SCMP Plus. For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click here. With Manila intensifying its “transparency” campaign, how does China view the...

South China Morning Post 2026-07-12 08:50 en

Beijing hits out as US-led coalition marks 10th anniversary of South China Sea ruling

Beijing has cast US-led military deployments as the “primary threat” to peace in the South China Sea, hitting back at a multinational declaration that marked the 10th anniversary of an arbitral ruling it does not recognise. In a strongly worded statement on Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs asserted China’s “historic rights” while condemning “militarising and coercive behaviour” from the US and its allies as the “foremost challenge currently facing the South China Sea”. “It is the...

Xataka 2026-07-12 18:31 es

El calor no solo te marea, "secuestra" tu sangre: la explicación científica detrás de la lipotimia veraniega

Con la llegada de las olas de calor, las calles, playas y transportes públicos se convierten en un caldo de cultivo perfecto para que se desencadene un horrible desmayo o golpe de calor. Algo que no es demasiado aislado, puesto que solo en 2025 las altas temperaturas estuvieron detrás de 3.832 muertes en España , un número que supera trágicamente a los fallecidos en accidentes de tráfico. Una emergencia. Gran parte de estos problemas relacionados con el calor empiezan con algo que puede pasar desapercibido, como es el síncope por calor o lipotimia , que se presenta como un mareo con visión…

🔬 Ciencia y Tecnología

Xataka 2026-07-12 19:01 es

Creíamos que para construir una GPU hacían falta laboratorios y millones. Un maker está montando una en casa

Durante años hemos asumido que construir una GPU era un terreno reservado a empresas con fábricas avanzadas, equipos de ingeniería y presupuestos millonarios. No era una idea absurda: basta mirar la complejidad de cualquier tarjeta gráfica moderna para entender por qué parecía fuera del alcance de una persona. Pero lo que ha hecho Matthias Balwierz , conocido como Bitluni, obliga a matizar esa certeza. No ha replicado una GeForce ni pretende competir con NVIDIA, pero sí está construyendo desde casa una máquina gráfica con miles de microcontroladores RISC-V. La primera fase reúne 8.192 de esos…

Xataka 2026-07-12 18:01 es

La primera "red social" de la historia tiene 57.000 años, la formaban cazadores y recolectores y sirvió para evitar la extinción

La supervivencia de los cazadores-recolectores de la prehistoria se ha explicado históricamente por dos cosas: el clima y los recursos naturales disponibles. Y aunque a grandes rasgos es cierto, un nuevo estudio propone que las relaciones sociales entre grupos humanos de por aquel entonces fueron tan decisivas que el entorno físico. El hallazgo . El equipo de investigación se centra en pequeños grupos de cazadores-recolectores que vivieron en el sur del Cáucaso hace entre 57.000 y 27.000 años. Al parecer, estos pequeños grupúsculos viajaban largas distancias y compartían herramientas y…

Xataka 2026-07-12 17:31 es

El sérum de vitamina C no sustituye a tu protector solar, pero la ciencia advierte: usar ambos es el verdadero "escudo total"

En los últimos años hemos visto cómo la cosmética activa ha puesto a la vitamina C en el centro de todas las rutinas matutinas. Su fama está justificada, pero ha traído consigo un mito peligroso al apuntar que puede ser un escudo solar por si misma. Pero la realidad es que, aunque es cierto que aporta una buena protección antioxidante adicional frente al daño solar, bajo ningún concepto sustituye a la protección solar tradicional. La vitamina C. El primer concepto que debemos interiorizar es que la vitamina C no bloquea la radiación UV de la forma en que lo hace un filtro químico o físico. De…

Hipertextual 2026-07-12 19:00 es

Esta función superútil está desapareciendo de los móviles Samsung y nadie sabe por qué: la marca lo confirma y revela cuándo volverá

Samsung ha dado un paso gigante en la personalización de sus dispositivos, pero esas nuevas funciones y aplicaciones que la compañía está incluyendo en sus móviles están perjudicando a muchos usuarios. De hecho, la compañía acaba de confirmar que hay una función muy útil que está desapareciendo de sus móviles. La función tiene que ver […] Seguir leyendo: Esta función superútil está desapareciendo de los móviles Samsung y nadie sabe por qué: la marca lo confirma y revela cuándo volverá

Hipertextual 2026-07-12 18:00 es

He activado esta función y ahora nadie (ni la IA) puede utilizar mis fotos y vídeos de Instagram

La mayoría de las personas no lo saben, pero Instagram hizo un cambio en su política hace unos días que te afecta directamente a ti y a tu contenido. Se trata de Muse Image, una nueva herramienta de Meta para crear contenido IA en base a las publicaciones de otros creadores. Y, si bien es […] Seguir leyendo: He activado esta función y ahora nadie (ni la IA) puede utilizar mis fotos y vídeos de Instagram

The Next Web 2026-07-12 15:34 en

Ubisoft is in crisis, and a 13-year-old pirate game is part of the escape plan

Ubisoft has remade the best-loved game in its biggest franchise. Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced arrives 13 years after the original, and the BBC found it largely worth the wait. The Caribbean looks spectacular now. New underwater sections and coral reefs show off what modern hardware can do with a setting that was always the game’s […] This story continues at The Next Web

The Next Web 2026-07-12 15:29 en

Netflix is reportedly considering always-on channels and bundles, which is to say, cable

Netflix executives have reportedly discussed adding always-on live channels to the service. The channels would run genre-based programming around the clock, all comedies or all action films, according to a Wall Street Journal report relayed by The Verge. They have also discussed folding rival streaming subscriptions into Netflix itself. Peacock was named specifically, appearing as a […] This story continues at The Next Web

The Next Web 2026-07-12 15:21 en

AI has triggered the biggest gas-plant building boom in history, and a quiet fight to stop it

The AI build-out has done something the fossil-fuel industry could not do for itself. It has set off the largest-ever construction boom in natural gas-fired power plants, the Associated Press reports. Aging coal plants are being kept alive past their retirement dates too. Utilities, plant owners, and the federal government have all pushed to postpone the […] This story continues at The Next Web

The Next Web 2026-07-12 15:14 en

Zhipu’s founder says frontier AI should stay open to everyone. His own government may disagree.

The founder of China’s most prominent AI lab has made an unambiguous case for openness. Frontier AI should stay broadly accessible rather than controlled by a select few, Zhipu’s Tang Jie wrote in an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg. His argument inverts the usual security logic. Real safety comes from broad participation, sharing, and oversight, he […] This story continues at The Next Web

The Next Web 2026-07-12 15:09 en

Meta spent a year being punished for its AI spending. Then it told investors how it would get the money back.

Meta has had a miserable year on the market, flat while the Nasdaq-100 climbed 18%. That changed abruptly, with the stock posting its best week since early 2024, CNBC reports. Shares rose about 6% on Friday and roughly 15% across the week. The move was not driven by advertising, the business that actually makes Meta’s money. […] This story continues at The Next Web

The Verge 2026-07-12 16:27 en

Apple’s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips

Apple's self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company's chips the powerful AI performers they are. Early in the development of the self-driving platform, Apple realized that it would need powerful on-device AI processing. While the car processor was never finished, as Mark Gurman details […]

The Verge 2026-07-12 14:38 en

How Philips Hue got the smart home right

The state of the smart home can be frustrating, because it is just so obvious how things ought to work. You should be able to control everything from everywhere. Your spaces should adapt to what you're doing and how you're feeling. Making your home smart shouldn't require renovating, and the smarts should be mostly invisible. […]

🧬 Medicina y Life Extension

Medical Xpress 2026-07-13 04:00 en

Another tick-borne disease to avoid: Anaplasmosis in Canada

Move over, Lyme disease—there's another tick-borne disease to worry about in Canada. Anaplasmosis, the second-most common tick-borne disease in the country, can cause a range of health issues, including myocarditis, as a practice article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal shows.

Medical Xpress 2026-07-13 00:30 en

Gene discovery may unlock infertility, early menopause clues

Most women are aware that fertility declines dramatically with age. This is mainly due to the gradual loss of eggs and follicles from the ovaries, leading to infertility, irregular cycles and ultimately menopause.

Medical Xpress 2026-07-12 23:20 en

Emergency doctors are stressed out—and patient irritation plays a significant role

HBO's emergency-department drama "The Pitt" has become a smash hit in large part because it shows the deeply human toll that emergency medicine exacts on those who practice it. While researchers have long known that real-life ER doctors are affected by many of the stresses that "The Pitt" has so effectively captured.

Medical Xpress 2026-07-12 21:30 en

Body's own cell-to-cell messaging packets studied as the basis for next-generation medicines

The Blood and Tissue Bank is studying how to therapeutically manufacture and use a type of nanoparticles released by the body's cells to communicate with one another, in one of the most promising fields of research for the therapies of the future. New medicines and advanced therapies modify cells (immune cells), genes and tissues to treat diseases such as cancer. However, the next step is to focus on these subcellular packages loaded with biological information, known as extracellular vesicles (EVs), which perform essential functions such as tissue regeneration and the modulation of…

Medical Xpress 2026-07-12 21:00 en

Normal oxygen levels can miss severe breathlessness driven by carbon dioxide

A study led by biomedical scientist Erica Heinrich at the University of California, Riverside, highlights a critical gap in how clinicians detect and treat breathing distress (dyspnea), particularly in patients on ventilators. The research is published in the journal Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology.

📚 Research papers (aging & longevity)

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