Science in the media

Science

[:es]These half-billion-year-old creatures were animals—but unlike any known today[:]

[:es]So-called Ediacaran organisms have puzzled biologists for decades. To the untrained eye they look like fossilized plants, in tube or frond shapes up to 2 meters long. These strange life […]
SINC

[:es]Las mujeres sobreviven más a un ataque cardíaco si las tratan doctoras[:]

[:es]Si eres mujer y sufres un ataque al corazón, mejor que te atienda una médica en lugar de un médico. Así lo sugieren los datos de supervivencia de más de […]
The New York Times

[:es]Anti-Vaccine Activists Have Taken Vaccine Science Hostage[:]

[:es]As a science journalist, I’ve written several articles to quell vaccine angst and encourage immunization. But lately, I’ve noticed that the cloud of fear surrounding vaccines is having another nefarious […]
The Conversation

[:es]Victoria del credo ecologista frente a las técnicas de edición genética CRISPR[:]

[:es]El Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea ha sentenciado que los organismos que se obtengan mediante la modificación del genoma haciendo uso de las técnicas CRISPR han de ser […]
Forbes

[:es]’Blueberry Earth’: How Thought Experiments Help Us To Understand Exoplanets[:]

[:es]“Supposing that the entire Earth was instantaneously replaced with an equal volume of closely packed, but uncompressed blueberries, what would happen from the perspective of a person on the surface?”[:]
Cosmos

[:es]Earth may soon become “inhospitable to current human societies”[:]

[:es]Major study identified thresholds and tipping points that could trigger environmental disaster, even if emissions are curbed.[:]
Nature News

[:es]Diverse genome study upends understanding of how language evolved[:]

[:es]Research casts doubt on the idea that the FOXP2 gene — linked to language evolution — is special to modern humans. [:]
El País

[:es]Por qué incluso el consumo moderado de alcohol aumenta el riesgo de padecer cáncer[:]

[:es]Un creciente número de estudios epidemiológicos indican que el consumo de alcohol, incluso en cantidades moderadas, es un factor de riesgo para el desarrollo de varios tipos de cáncer[:]
SINC

[:es]Los pigmeos modernos de Flores no comparten genética con los ‘hobbits’[:]

[:es]Dos poblaciones pigmeas en la misma isla tropical: Flores. Una se extinguió hace decenas de miles de años, los conocidos como ‘hobbits’ y la otra todavía vive allí, los pigmeos […]