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Agave Tequilana Weber blue variety is the species with the highest content of inulin.

Properties of agave inulin Tequilana weber blue variety

This type of agave has a high content of fructans of the inulin-type (FTI), which are a source of fermentable sugars; today they have been attributed functional properties that may have added economic and environmental value.

Increased virtuality will further shape education in the future.

Virtuality will permeate education more in the future

The digital divide in future education can be fought with literacy programs and government-private initiative alliances.

Brain Advanced Computer Surgery Simulator combines physical and virtual models.

BACSIM or Brain Advanced Computer Surgery Simulator

As part of their efforts to train medical professionals in complex neurosurgical treatments, researchers and students from the UNAM's Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (ICAT) have developed a virtual reality and robotic training simulator.

Avoid contact with secretions from sick poultry and getting immunized every year.

The seasonal influenza vaccine helps reduce the severity of avian influenza

To prevent transmission, maintain measures implemented against COVID-19, in addition to avoiding contact with secretions from sick poultry and getting immunized every year.

In space, astronauts can compensate for the lack of weight sensation by looking around.

What does space medicine do?

Research in space medicine addresses the problem of defining the health risks of space flight and developing strategies to prevent and treat various disorders in space. For this purpose, research work is carried out to simulate the space environment.

Marie Curie, the woman who changed modern science.

Marie Curie, the First Woman to Receive a Nobel Prize

We pay tribute to the Polish scientist Marie Curie who, with her discoveries on radiation, became the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes and to change the course of physicochemical research in the 20th century.

Robotic Insect: Small-Scale Robotics Characteristics, Dimensions, and Applications.

Small-Scale Robotics: From Microbots to Nanobots

Satire of the romantic suicide (Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1839).

Are we free to decide? This is what neuroscience says

This is one of the problems of what is understood, strictly speaking, by free will: the ability to make different decisions under the same environmental, social, individual, and emotional conditions.

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Eight amazing women scientists whose merit was taken by men

All of these women made great discoveries, but they were left in the shadows. Their achievements were either attributed to their male colleagues or they were denied the Nobel Prize.

Nettie Stevens (1861-1912), discovered that biological sex is determined by a configuration of chromosomes.

Nettie Stevens, an American Scientist Who Revolutionized the Field of Genetics

This American scientist revolutionized the field of genetics by making one of the most important contributions to history when she asked herself how the sex of organisms is determined.