Science in the media

The Marshall Islands were one of the United States’s go-to nuclear testing sites in the 1940s and 1950s: Sixty-seven of the almost 200 tests during that period took place in these […]

Researchers who discovered a molecular “scissors” for snipping genes have now developed a similar approach for targeting and cutting RNA. The new cutting tool should help researchers better understand RNA’s […]

El neurocirujano inglés Henry Marsh ha conmocionado al mundo con su libro “Ante todo no hagas daño”, una autobiografía en el que detalla sus errores como médico durante varias décadas […]

Recent tests show that quantum computers made by D-Wave systems should solve some problems faster than ordinary computers. Researchers have begun to map out exactly which queries might benefit from […]

Donostian, 1907ko irailaren 30eko euri zaparradek ez zuten Ulian bildutako jendearen ikusmina zapuztu. Hirurehun bat metroko distantziara zeuden bi tontorren artean, ongi tenkaturik ikusten ziren sei kable; eta, haietatik zintzilik, […]

The latest dispatch from the war on HIV, the “Global AIDS Update 2016”, just published by UNAIDS, the UN agency responsible for combating the virus, brings qualified good news.

When some stars much more massive than the sun reach the end of their lives, they explode in a supernova, fusing lighter atoms into heavier ones and dispersing the products […]

Warner had just DMCA’d an artificial reconstruction of a film about artificial intelligence being indistinguishable from humans, because it couldn’t distinguish between the simulation and the real thing.

Científicos del CNIO han desarrollado ratones con menos signos de envejecimiento molecular y una menor incidencia de cáncer. La técnica ofrece una nueva manera de retrasar el envejecimiento sin alterar […]