La ciencia en los medios

If our particles have no identity, how can we?

Websites and apps are designed for compulsion, even addiction. Should the net be regulated like drugs or casinos?

NIH to fund a cache of brain tissue and online data in place of live-animal experimentation.

Icono pop de la ciencia, padre de la física moderna y ‘la persona del siglo’ según la revista Time. Son numerosos los clichés para referirse a Albert Einstein, pero pocos saben que un año después de abandonar su país a finales de 1932, impulsó en EEUU la creación de una rama de la Asociación Internacional…

Un equipo de investigadores descubre el mecanismo por el que las células epiteliales de la hydra reemplazan a las del sistema nervioso cuando éstas son eliminadas.

The skills that enable one person to knuckle down and focus while another’s mind wanders don’t come down to one or even a handful of spots in the brain, a new study suggests. Scientists have identified brain networks that spread across many regions, with synchronous activity patterns that are linked to a person’s ability to…

A new formula seeks to define a planet. As Rick Lovett reports, 99% of the exoplanets found so far qualify, but Pluto does not.

The agricultural revolution was one of the most profound events in human history, leading to the rise of modern civilization. Now, in the first study of its kind, an international team of scientists has found that after agriculture arrived in Europe 8,500 years ago, people’s DNA underwent widespread changes, altering their height, digestion, immune system…

Albert Einstein fue el primero en dar el salto conceptual de un ‘viejo’ universo mecánico al ‘nuevo’ relativista. Al hacerlo cambió el cosmos para todos nosotros.