Science in the media

Un equipo de investigadores descubre que la melanina, además de protegernos, lleva a cabo un proceso que daña el ADN horas después de la exposición al sol. El descubrimiento puede […]

Fundamental theories of nature aren’t allowed to hide information.

Researchers are demonstrating that, in certain contexts, string theory is the only consistent theory of quantum gravity. Might this make it true?

The chemical company BASF says the basic type of battery used now in hybrids could be improved tenfold, leading to cheaper electric cars.

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Hepatitis C has a cure, but how do we find those who need it? Patrick Strudwick reports on one attempt to identify some of the estimated 100,000 undiagnosed people in […]

Un grupo internacional de investigadores ha analizado la estrategia planteada por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) para erradicar el pian en 2020. Los resultados, publicados en The New […]

Our DNA may encode all the instructions needed to build the human body and keep it running, but each of our cells must follow just a subset of those instructions […]

Faint star with even fainter companion came close enough to perturb comets in the distant Oort cloud some 70,000 years ago.