La ciencia en los medios

If the Gobi Desert represents all of the matter flung across the cosmos, living matter is a single grain of sand. Vitalism in the age of modern science.

Scientific publishing has undergone a revolution in recent years – largely due to the internet. And it shows no sign of letting up as a growing number of countries attempt to ensure that research papers are made freely available. Publishers are struggling to adapt their business models to the new challenges. But it is not…

In a typical experiment, scientists use Crispr to alter a single gene. But in recent work with pig cells, Dr. Church and his colleagues used Crispr to alter 62 genes at once. The researchers hope that this achievement may someday make it possible to use pig organs for transplantation into humans.

Arlanpeko kobazuloan (Lemoa, Bizkaia) emakume-itxurako grabatuak dituen harri handi bat aurkitu dutela jakinarazi dute. Grabatuak duela 17.500 urte ingurukoak dira, eta haietako bat osorik dago. Aurkikuntza aparta da, orain arte ez baitute horrelakorik topatu penintsulan. Hala, era horretako artearen banaketa geografikoa eta kronologia osatzeko gakotzat jo dute.

Este catedrático de Ciencias de la Computación en Inteligencia Artificial de la Universidad de Granada está obsesionado con diseñar ‘software’ e inteligencia artificial que imita a la naturaleza

Montañas jóvenes, glaciares, planicies heladas, diversidad de paisajes y rachas de viento por su atmósfera. Este es el panorama de Plutón que ofrecen los primeros resultados científicos del sobrevuelo que hizo la nave New Horizons sobre el planeta enano y sus satélites, que también presentan superficies complejas y extrañas rotaciones.

Aireko CO2a harrapatzeko material berri bat sortu dute ikertzaile korear batzuek. CO2a fisikoki harrapatzen duen material mikroporodun bat da abantaila handi bat du orain arteko antzeko materialen aldean: urak ez dio eragiten.

Can Earth’s ice ages be seen in the undulating fabric of the sea floor? Earlier this year, a pair of papers suggested that long-term cycles of glaciation and melting trigger pulses of lava that harden into sea floor hills. But now, a new study throws cold water on that hypothesis, finding that these climate-driven pulses…

Vast regions of near-empty space in the Universe are growing and shrinking, much as bubbles merge and separate in soapsuds, astronomers have discovered.