Science in the media

For at least ten years, Jennifer Aniston has been, in a way, part of a furious debate among neuroscientists about how we encode our memories.

Finding is most convincing evidence so far that male and female dinosaurs looked different and may have had mating selection rituals comparable to birds

In a world first, Chinese scientists have reported editing the genomes of human embryos. The results are published in the online journal Protein & Cell and confirm widespread rumours that such experiments had been conducted—rumours that  sparked a high-profile debatelast month about the ethical implications of such work.

Neural probes that combine optics, electronics, and drugs could help unlock the secrets of the brain.

No se sabe a ciencia cierta por qué los puntos reflejan la luz solar de esa manera en comparación a su entorno. Se alude a la presencia de hielo, pero el hielo no sería estable en un cuerpo sin atmósfera.

The worst of the Ebola epidemic may be over but the World Health Organization has declared that life in Sierra Leone, as in other Ebola-affected West African countries, can only return to normal when transmission of the virus ceases and cases drop to zero. Unfortunately, not everyone in Sierra Leone is so concerned. Mark Honigsbaum…

Not many years ago, the idea our Solar System might contain undiscovered planets beyond Pluto would have been considered science fiction. But now, with NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft three months away from giving us our first close-up view of Pluto, astronomers are beginning to wonder. The more we study the dwarf planet and its surrounds,…

The computer scientist Stuart Russell wants to ensure that our increasingly intelligent machines remain aligned with human values.

En esta foto del cráneo de un humano moderno y de un neandertal frente a frente, ¿echan en falta algo? Existe una característica que los primates, neandertales y humanos arcaicos no tienen: la barbilla. Investigadores de la Universidad de Iowa (EE UU) sostienen que el mentón proviene de la evolución, no de fuerzas mecánicas como…