Science in the media

Millions of men bear the genetic legacy of Genghis Khan, the famously fertile Mongolian ruler who died in 1227. Researchers have now recognized ten other men whose fecundity has left a lasting impression on present-day populations. The team’s study points to sociopolitical factors that foster such lineages, but the identities of the men who left their genetic…

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To sail on winds of sunlight has long been a dream of rocket scientists. The Planetary Society, a nonprofit that promotes space exploration, announced Monday that it would send the first of two small spacecraft testing the technology of solar sails into orbit this May, tagging along with other small satellites on an Atlas 5…

Usted no los ve pero están ahí. Miles de programas trabajan a su alrededor cada día para hacerle la vida más fácil o para encontrar un punto débil en su seguridad. Así es la batalla diaria con los algoritmos.

A quantum computing pioneer explains why analog simulators may beat out general-purpose digital quantum machines — for now.

Borneo’s mammals are threatened by a one-two punch of logging and climate change, but only a small amount of additional land needs to be protected to safeguard many of the species at risk, scientists report  in Current Biology.

When a person dies from cancer, the culprit is usually not the original tumor but rather the cancerous cells that spread throughout the body and replicate in distant organs, a process called metastasis. Researchers have long known that metastasizing cancer cells slip their bonds and avoid immune detection by altering the sugars on their surfaces.…

Our ape-like ancestors may have stopped dragging their knuckles and started making tools a half million years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study.

La biomedicina lleva años buscando las claves de enfermedades en el ADN de sus pacientes. Se han descrito miles de mutaciones relacionadas con la hipertensión, la diabetes y el alzhéimer, sin embargo, algunos científicos han decidido cambiar de perspectiva. ¿Por qué no estudiar también a los que, a pesar de poseer una herencia genética desfavorable,…