La ciencia en los medios

Losing your sense of smell takes away more than scents and flavours – it can fundamentally change the way you relate to other people.

¿Por qué no hay pruebas científicas contundentes sobre la existencia de la memoria fotográfica o eidética?

In the quest for a unified, coherent description of all of nature — a “theory of everything” — physicists have unearthed the taproots linking ever more disparate phenomena.

Two years after physicists predicted that tin should be able to form a mesh just one atom thick, researchers say that they have made it. The thin film, called stanene, is reported on 3 August in Nature Materials. But researchers have not been able to confirm whether the material has the predicted exotic electronic properties…

As bodies meld with machines, are we leaving ourselves behind?

Científicos estadounidenses han creado un mapa de las zonas de mayor riesgo para la población autóctona de salamandras en EE UU, Canadá y México ante la amenaza de un hongo tóxico introducido junto a los ejemplares importados de Asia. Para evitar que se produzcan extinciones similares a las ya ocurridas en Holanda y Bélgica, los…

The tree of life might seem like a stable design, appropriate for indelible ink. Plenty of people think so. An Internet search for “phylogenetic tattoos” turns up some showy skin art. But the branches are shifting. Since a radial diagram based on 1990s genetics inspired a rush for tree-of-life tattoos, technical diagrams of life’s ancestral…

Investigadores de Harvard descubren que el sarcasmo potencia la creatividad tanto de quien lo realiza como de quien lo recibe. Y, aunque tiene ciertos riesgos, puede ser un elemento para mejorar la confianza entre las personas.

Can you spot the drowning child in the image here? An average of 10 people a day die from unintentional drowning according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but often it’s a quiet struggle that hardly resembles the dramatic affair we see on television.