Science in the media

When the World Health Organization recently named blood transfusions from Ebola survivors as its priority experimental therapy for the disease ravaging west Africa there was only one major problem: no data indicating that such transfusions work.

The mineral that makes up more than a third of our planet finally has a name, thanks to tiny samples found, ironically, in a meteorite that fell to Earth in Australia in 1879.

DARPA’s made all types of robots, from “Big Dog” to “Wild Cat,” and soft robots to flying robots. Their latest creepy invention is a robotic “cheetah” that can run, bound, and jump obstacles in its path all while running on a quiet electric motor, giving the robot its stealthy cat-like quality.

Scientists detected an invisible shield roughly 7,200 miles above the Earth’s surface that is protecting us from harmful, super-fast electrons flying close to the speed of light. It may sound like Star Trek tech, but this mysterious protective barrier isn’t science fiction. The findings, described in the journal Nature, could help scientists better understand the…

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The Square Kilometre Array (SKA)  will be made up of an unprecedented number of antennae spread across two continents for the first time (Australia and Africa). The SKA will see the radio sky with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution, enabling us to pick up extremely small and faint objects and probe the more distant universe. It is…

Specially designed ‘ISSpresso’ machine overcomes absence of gravity by firing pressurised water through capsule of coffee

El Museo de Historia Natural de Nueva York y la Universidad de Cambridge publican digitalizados los manuscritos del creador de la teoría de la evolución

¿Tu perro obedece inmediatamente a una orden y responde por su nombre? Aunque muchos dirían que su mejor amigo entiende todo, lo que en realidad hace el cerebro canino es diferenciar entre los sonidos del habla y la manera de expresarse. Según un nuevo estudio, el can atiende no solo a la persona que le…