La ciencia en los medios

Borneo’s mammals are threatened by a one-two punch of logging and climate change, but only a small amount of additional land needs to be protected to safeguard many of the species at risk, scientists report  in Current Biology.

When a person dies from cancer, the culprit is usually not the original tumor but rather the cancerous cells that spread throughout the body and replicate in distant organs, a process called metastasis. Researchers have long known that metastasizing cancer cells slip their bonds and avoid immune detection by altering the sugars on their surfaces.…

Our ape-like ancestors may have stopped dragging their knuckles and started making tools a half million years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study.

La biomedicina lleva años buscando las claves de enfermedades en el ADN de sus pacientes. Se han descrito miles de mutaciones relacionadas con la hipertensión, la diabetes y el alzhéimer, sin embargo, algunos científicos han decidido cambiar de perspectiva. ¿Por qué no estudiar también a los que, a pesar de poseer una herencia genética desfavorable,…

A fleeting but immensely powerful celestial signal has been “heard” live for the first time, radio astronomers in Australia have announced, bringing scientists a step closer to discovering its mysterious origins.

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Drones able to take water samples could be the first in a new wave of hands-on aerial robots.

El movimiento brusco de las placas tectónicas provoca terremotos, que desembocan en desastres naturales y cuantiosas pérdidas materiales y humanas. Normalmente se deslizan suavemente durante cientos de millones de años, pero se ignoraba por qué en ocasiones crujen abruptamente. Ahora, parece que este enigma de la geología ha encontrado respuesta.

Earth’s water has a mysterious past stretching back to the primordial clouds of gas that birthed the Sun and other stars. By using telescopes and computer simulations to study such star nurseries, researchers can better understand the cosmic chemistry that has influenced the distribution of water in star systems across the Universe.