Science in the media

Scientists say they have pinpointed the neurons that turn these birds into copycats. The discovery could not only illuminate the origins of bird-speak, but might shed light on how new […]

Attempts to attribute extreme weather events to global warming have often failed because they have looked at the wrong thing, leading climatologists claim. By focusing on rising temperatures, tides and […]

Un equipo de científicos ha obtenido los primeros datos de cómo era la cabeza de Hallucigenia, abuelo de los artrópodos y una de las criaturas más misteriosas de la evolución.

The race to uncover the structure of DNA reveals fascinating insights into how Franklin’s data was key to the double helix model, but the ‘stealing’ myth stems from Watson’s memoir […]

Dos tipos de cannabinoides –compuestos de la planta Cannabis sativa– han resultado efectivos en la muerte de las células tumorales de melanomas, sin afectar a las células sanas. El estudio, […]

Either cause and effect are the very glue of the cosmos, or they are a naive illusion due to insufficient math. But which?

I’ve done the math, and for $1.20, you can preserve a 19-inch by 19-inch square of rainforest habitat—home, on average, to 0.000006 long-tailed macaques and 0.0000001 pangolins. All you have […]

“We are on the trajectory of seeing a mass extinction in two human lifetimes if we just keep doing business as usual,” said Anthony Barnosky, a paleontologist in UC Berkeley’s […]

El número de nacimientos adelantados se ha multiplicado en los países desarrollados. Solo en España nacen 29.000 niños antes de tiempo cada año. Los científicos luchan por desarrollar herramientas que […]