Science in the media

The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic left a troubling legacy in Europe: More than 1300 people who received a vaccine to prevent the flu developed narcolepsy, an incurable, debilitating condition that causes overpowering daytime sleepiness, sometimes accompanied by […]

Working out how to build ethical robots is one of the thorniest challenges in artificial intelligence. Real-life roboticists are citing Asimov’s laws a lot these days: their creations are becoming […]

In the science fiction movie Inception, Leonardo Di Caprio and his gang set out to implant specific memories into individuals’ brains in order to pull off the perfect crime. But […]

La presencia de estructuras complejas parecidas a un ojo en seres unicelulares lleva años desconcertando a los científicos. Ahora, un equipo ha descubierto que el origen está en la asimilación […]

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Fingerprints may not be the permanent biological signatures we’ve built them up to be.

Un estudio, publicado en Nature Climate Change, alerta de las consecuencias del calentamiento global en la circulación océanica del Atlántico Norte, y examina por primera vez estos cambios en el […]

While the technology has improved immensely in the last couple years, there are still plenty of crucial issues to be sorted out—among them that feeling of motion sickness that some […]

Move over, parrots. Here’s another bird with some impressive “language” skills: The chestnut-crowned babbler. Scientists studying the social birds have discovered that they can rearrange meaningless sounds in their calls […]