Science in the media

[:eu]In 1987, a group of researchers in France discovered something peculiar. When they protected single-celled organisms from background radiation—the sort that comes from cosmic rays and radioactive rocks—the creatures’ growth was stunted. Colonies that receive a background dose of radiation actually grew more quickly than their shielded brethren. That’s radiation—not vitamins, not nutrition, not anything…

[:eu]Large analyses dredge up ‘peripheral’ genetic associations that offer little biological insight, researchers say.[:]

[:eu]Euskal Herrian hizkuntza- eta hizketa-teknologien ikerketan eta garapenean dihardugun erakunde esanguratsuenen 15 urteko elkarlanaren azken emaitza da ElkarOla proiektua. Euskararako eta inguruko hizkuntzetarako teknologietan oinarrizko ikerketa egiteaz gain, ikerketa aplikatuari eta transferentzia teknologikoari garrantzia eman zaio, eta tresnak gizarteratu eta merkaturatzera ere iritsi gara. Egindako lanaren erakusgarri, hiru demo landu dira, hiru arlo estrategikotan teknologia…

[:eu]How many parks are near the new home you’re thinking of buying? What’s the best dinner-wine pairing at a restaurant? These everyday questions require relational reasoning, an important component of higher thought that has been difficult for artificial intelligence (AI) to master. Now, researchers at Google’s DeepMind have developed a simple algorithm to handle such…

[:eu]El ‘padre’ de las vacunas modernas ha recibido esta semana el Premio Inventor Europeo 2017 por su lucha contra enfermedades como la meningitis y la tosferina[:]

[:eu]Un modelo elaborado por la NASA y el MIT muestra la diferente velocidad a la que los océanos absorben el calor y los gases de efecto invernadero. El estudio predice que los gases regresarán a la atmósfera en el futuro, incluso si dejamos de emitir.[:]

[:eu]Científicos chinos han logrado teletransportar una partícula 1203 km desde un satélite hasta una estación en tierra[:]

[:eu]A different kind of dark matter could help to resolve an old celestial conundrum.[:]

[:eu]Pasteur was an artist. And without his early creative explorations, he may not have made one of his most monumental, but least talked about, discoveries in science, one with far-reaching implications.[:]