Science in the media

[:eu]This isn’t a photo of the Milky Way; it’s a deep, dark cave in New Zealand. And those blue things aren’t stars; they’re maggots. A chemical reaction in their Malpighian tubules—structures analogous to kidneys—makes their posteriors glow, much to the delight of more than 200,000 tourists who visit them every year. [:]

[:eu]Su ‘start-up’ está secuenciando miles de genomas para encontrar vínculos entre el ADN y las enfermedades, y ofrece un servicio médico personalizado por 23.000 euros[:]

[:eu]Los europeos más antiguos que vivieron en Atapuerca tenían una dieta equilibrada de plantas y carne, pero las pruebas de la placa dental de una mandíbula de hace 1,2 millones de años indican que ingerían los alimentos crudos. Así lo confirma un estudio que avala la hipótesis de que el uso intencionado del fuego aún…

[:eu]Water vapor erupting from this Jovian moon could offer new pathways for exploring its subsurface ocean[:]

[:eu]Particle physics is petrolhead science – a particle-revving, high-octane demolition derby near the speed of light. Cathal O’Connell looks ahead to new ‘Higgs factories’ on teraelectronvolt, megawatt and gigadollar scales.[:]

[:eu]Este físico es director ejecutivo del experimento LIGO, los autores de la detección de ondas gravitacionales, que es probablemente el mayor hallazgo científico de 2016.[:]

[:eu]El felino ibérico tiene la menor diversidad genética de todas las especies amenazadas, según el primer análisis completo de su ADN[:]

[:eu]40 years later, researchers have found more hominin footprints at the world-famous site, called Laetoli. They comprise tracks from two more individuals, including those of a man who would have weighed 48 kilograms and stood 1.65 metres tall, larger than any other Australopithecus in the fossil record. Researchers have named him Chewie, after the 2-metre-tall…

[:eu]Over 1,000 light-years from Earth is a monstrous gas giant of a planet—500 times more massive than our own—where clouds seem to be made from corundum, the same mineral that creates rubies and sapphires here on Earth.[:]