Science in the media

Amino acids could have become “left-handed” on a journey through space. Viviane Richter explains.

Last week, President Obama unveiled the final draft of sweeping new rules to limit emissions from the nation’s power plants. In his speech, he underlined the urgency of climate change […]

A new play examines why less than 3% of Nobel laureates in science are women –and highlights the stories of a few of those who have succeeded

Comienzan las votaciones para llamar Cervantes a una estrella y personajes del Quijote a sus planetas. La propuesta se decide en una votación mundial para todo el público a través […]

Con una molécula de ftalocianina, unos pocos átomos de indio –un metal poco abundante– y la ayuda de un microscopio de efecto túnel se puede construir un nanotransistor. Así lo […]

Have you ever wondered why you say “The boy is playing Frisbee with his dog” instead of “The boy dog his is Frisbee playing with”?  You may be trying to […]

Here’s some cosmically bad news: The universe is dying. An international team of scientists that used seven powerful telescopes around the world to capture light coming from more than 200,000 […]

Artificial-intelligence researchers have long struggled to make computers perform a task that is simple for humans: picking out one person’s speech when multiple people nearby are talking simultaneously.

El mérgulo antiguo se desplaza desde Canadá a Japón anualmente, y luego regresa a su hogar. Una migración que los expertos no logran explicar, ya que el clima de ambos […]