La ciencia en los medios

Scientists are slowly scaling up quantum effects from atomic to human size.

The reproductive system of horses has barely changed at all over the last 48 million years, according to a new study which analyzed the oldest-known fossil of a fetus belonging to a distant horse ancestor.

Yet if a school child’s parents replace a bedtime story with a math discussion even one night a week, the child’s math skill may improve markedly compared with peers who listen to nonmathematical stories, a new study shows.

Los astrónomos han descubierto lo nunca visto en el disco de polvo que rodea una estrella: unas gigantescas y extrañas ondas, parecidas a las que se forman en el agua, que se alejan del astro a velocidades de hasta 40.000 km/h. Este curioso fenómeno sucede en el entorno de la estrella AU Microscopii, a ‘solo’…

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A newly retrieved clay tablet containing 20 unknown lines depicting the story of Gilgamesh has been discovered. The story of Gilgamesh is considered as the world’s oldest epic poem and literature’s first masterpiece.

A controversial European neuroscience project that aims to simulate the human brain in a supercomputer has published its first major result: a digital imitation of circuitry in a sandgrain-sized chunk of rat brain. The work models some 31,000 virtual brain cells connected by roughly 37 million synapses.

Experts have come to understand mass shootings less as isolated expressions of rage and more as acts that build on the outlines of previous rampages.

La primera descripción de un insecto sin necesidad de presentar el espécimen reabre un viejo debate: ¿no deberían bastar fotos en alta definición para clasificar nuevas especies?