Science in the media

Some say apps that make learning fun are key, but what’s lost when all that learning is spent looking at a screen?

Con menos de diez años de diferencia, dos ilustres personajes visitaron el misterioso archipiélago de las Galápagos. Uno era un aún jovencísimo Darwin, quien a bordo del Beagle escribió un […]

Our hands share a deep evolutionary connection not only to bat wings or horse hooves, but also to fish fins.

The Barbados bullfinch and Carib grackle are no birdbrains – but the ability to pass a tricky test wasn’t correlated with traits such as shyness or problem-solving.

Some call it the “biological Chernobyl.” On 2 April 1979, a plume of anthrax spores was accidentally released from a secret bioweapons facility in the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk. Propelled […]

Un estudio del Joint Genome Institute descubre 85.000 secuencias virales únicas en todo el planeta

Durante dos décadas, la ciencia ha sostenido que la voluntad se desgasta con el uso, pero no es así.

Researchers have unveiled another “first” in brain imaging: a visualisation of epigenetic activity (the mechanisms that affect gene expression) in a living human brain. This could help show the role […]

For nearly nine decades, science’s favorite explanation for the origin of life has been the “primordial soup”. This is the idea that life began from a series of chemical reactions […]