Science in the media

Los ladrones tienen una compleja caja de herramientas cognitivas, con habilidades desarrolladas y automáticas, muy similar a la de un jugador de ajedrez o una estrella del tenis.

By replacing black holes with fuzzballs — dense, star-like objects from string theory — researchers think they can avoid some knotty paradoxes at the edge of physics.

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 areas of the brain arise during evolution.

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 atmospheric moisture instead of chaotic and highly variable shifts in atmospheric circulation, they say, scientists may be able to better identify the human fingerprint in…

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 and attitude rather than facts

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, que codirige la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, se ha probado in vitro y en ratones.

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 to do is pay a bit more for palm oil, found in roughly half of all grocery store items: chocolate bars, cereal, and lipstick, to…