La ciencia en los medios

Underwater volcanic eruptions may have delayed oxygen from building up in the atmosphere of primeval Earth for hundreds of millions of years

Un estudio sobre la actividad agrícola de los isleños indica que tuvieron altibajos en su desarrollo, pero que no se produjo un colapso antes de la llegada de los europeos. Los arqueólogos discrepan sobre la causa del declive de esta civilización.

A new year, another kerfuffle among experts over the existence of that most elusive of human phenotypes: the person who is both obese and healthy.

Social adversity shapes humans’ immune systems—and probably their susceptibility to disease—by altering the expression of large groups of genes.

Bi aldiz mundiala: mundu osokoa delako, eta benetan aparta delako. 2002. urtean sortu zuten Estatu Batuetan eBird aplikazioa, Cornell Universityko Ornitologia Laborategiak eta Audubon Elkarteak. Funtsean, hegazti-behaketak gorde, antolatu eta banatzeko aplikazioa da. Hasiera batean Estatu Batuetara mugatua zegoen, baina azken urteotan mundu osora hedatu dute, eta orduan etorri zaio benetako eztanda eta ospea.

If you have taken a walk and would like to return home you need to have an idea of where you are in relation to your destination. To do this, you need to know which way you are facing and also in which direction home lies. This all seems fairly instinctive to humans and other…

In a mountain meadow in Colorado, ecologists have come across yet another example of the amazing interconnectedness of nature’s flora and fauna.  Black bears, by eating ants, help one of the meadow’s key plant species thrive.

Científicos descubrieron una rana que da a luz directamente a renacuajos, sin haber puesto huevos.

1956an, ikertzaile talde batek marraztu zuen zientziak jarraitu beharreko bide deigarri berri bat: gizakiaren adimena imitatzea. Ordutik hona, pauso nabariak eman dira, informatikan zehazki.