Science in the media

Un equipo de científicos descubre los mecanismos que permiten a la famosa E. coli y a otras bacterias reparar su material genético en las situaciones más extremas. Este conocimiento podría ayudar […]

When we make important social decisions – which political candidate to vote for, whether to trust someone with our money, whether a person is guilty of a crime – we’d […]

Las causas del autismo llevan medio siglo en discusión y siguen sin estar claras, pero cada vez resulta más evidente la trascendencia de los factores genéticos. Dos macroestudios presentados en […]

The idea was too beautiful to be wrong. That you could start with nothing, apply some basic laws of physics, and get auniverse out of it—a universe that was uniform […]

Ebolari aurre egiteko behar diren txerto-dosiak datorren urterako prest izan nahi dituela iragarri du MOEk, Genevan egin berri duen bileran. Iragarpena ausarta den arren, laborategiek normalean txertoak garatzeko behar izaten […]

The centre of the galaxy looks to be lit up by the death-throes of dark matter. Spotting another of the signals we expect to see from dark matter particles annihilating […]

Researchers reveal the nova was about 14,800 light years from the sun, meaning the explosion witnessed in August last year happened 15,000 years ago.

It isn’t actually perspiration that causes that dank gym scent but rather the bacteria that thrive off sweat. Good news: A team of Swedish researchers from the KTH Royal Institute […]

After decades of repeated reinvention, the silicon transistor is starting to show its age, and the industry is hunting for alternatives. One option involves a new way of manipulating the […]