Science in the media

Every sporting event tells a story. Now the first computational analysis of “game stories” suggests that future sports could be designed to prefer certain kinds of stories over others.

Why do archaeological fraudsters work so hard to deceive us? Because bad science makes for good stories

Injecting single cells with spheres of fluorescent dye could open new research and treatment avenues using light.

Un equipo analiza por primera vez la actividad cerebral de las personas mientras ven películas de suspense. Cuando la tensión emocional aumenta, nuestro cerebro sufre una especie de efecto túnel […]

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The total mass of the atmosphere on Pluto appears to have fallen by half in just two years, scientists working on NASA’s New Horizons mission reported during a news conference […]

Astronomer Rodrigo Luger of the University of Washington, along with colleagues, have found that a certain kind of planet called a mini-Neptune with its atmosphere removed could, in fact, become […]

Con la ayuda del tacto y el olfato se puede diferenciar una roca de otra, e incluso sentir los millones de años de antigüedad de los estratos sedimentarios. Geólogos de […]

A 115-year effort to bridge the particle and fluid descriptions of nature has led mathematicians to an unexpected answer.