Science in the media

What little ice remains on Mercury and Mars is mostly confined to the planets’ poles, as one would expect, because the sun shines the least in those regions. Not so […]

How a star explosion may have shaped life on Earth.

Un equipo de investigadores descubre el proceso por el cual el cerebro suprime activamente un recuerdo cuando interfiere con otro y lo considera irrelevante. El mecanismo explica algunas de nuestras […]

In 1962, the ecologist Robert Whitaker set out to categorize the different realms of life on Earth. Some were deserts, others tundra, still others tropical forests. He coined a word […]

“AN INORDINATE fondness for beetles.” That was the reply of J.B.S. Haldane, a British scientific polymath of the early 20th century, when he was asked if there were anything that […]

Researchers have found genetic signatures among Britons that betray their historical roots in particular locales of the United Kingdom, leading to the finest-scale map of genetic variation yet created. The […]

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Fifty years ago today, Russian Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov did something no human had ever done before. He jumped out of a spacecraft and into space. “The silence struck me,” he […]

Diseñan un sistema de impresión que genera estructuras tridimensionales en apenas unos minutos y de forma continua. El dispositivo se basa en el uso de un baño líquido y es […]