La ciencia en los medios

The term “diffuse interstellar bands” may not run chills down your back, but it’s code for a spectral mystery has haunted astronomers for almost a century. First discovered in 1922, these absorption lines (more than 400 of them) are seen anytime astronomers look toward dust-reddened stars. But no ions or molecules tested in the lab…

The prevailing theory is that the first Americans arrived in a single wave, and all Native American populations today descend from this one group of adventurous founders. But now there’s a kink in that theory. The latest genetic analyses back up skeletal studies suggesting that some groups in the Amazon share a common ancestor with…

The cold permafrost of Antarctica houses bacteria that thrive at temperatures below freezing, where water is icy and nutrients are few and far between. Oligotrophs, slow-growing organisms that prefer environments where nutrients are scarce, could provide clues as to how life could exist in the permafrost of Mars.

Researchers find transistors can be produced consisting of atoms 600,000 times thinner than a human hair – paving way for atom-scale chips

Today the majority of American military aircraft are drones, and commercial aircraft now fly most of their routes on autopilot. The new program’s goal is to use robots to augment, rather than automate, flight.

El revuelo que generó este material milagro a principios de siglo se quedó básicamente en eso. Aunque la inversión se ha incrementado año tras año, la revolución industrial que muchos vaticinaban no llega.

While traditional chemotherapy acts as a poison to kill cancer cells directly, the new drug being tested aimed to use the patient’s own immune system to fight the cancer. Tumors interact with immune cells in such a way to evade being killed by them, and this new drug aimed to put a stop to that.…

Fue venerado durante su vida, descubrió las leyes de la gravedad y del movimiento, inventó el cálculo infinitesimal y ayudó a moldear nuestra visión racional del mundo. Pero su vida personal a menudo estuvo plagada de sentimientos menos felices.

Un equipo internacional de investigación, que ha contado con la participación de Juan Luis Arsuaga, director científico del Museo de la Evolución Humana, ha identificado los huesos de Filipo II de Macedonia, así como los de su esposa Cleopatra y su hijo recién nacido, en la Tumba 1 del Gran Túmulo en la ciudad de…