Science in the media

Standing 2 meters tall and weighing as much as 1000 kilograms, European bison (Bison bonasus) are impressive animals. These cousins of the American bison—nearly driven to extinction in the last […]

Arrain eta krustazeoez elikatzen diren arren, baleen hesteetako mikrobiotak ugaztun belarjale lurtarrenarekin antzekotasunak dituela argitu du ikerketa batek. Hala, berretsi dute, dietaz gain, jatorri ebolutiboarekin ere lotura duela animalien hesteetako […]

Un equipo de investigadores ha estudiado el ecosistema de la noche polar en uno de los fiordos de Svalbard durante tres inviernos seguidos. Su trabajo indica que hay mucha más […]

Nima Arkani-Hamed is championing a campaign to build the world’s largest particle collider, even as he pursues a new vision of the laws of nature.

Los hábitos de la mujer durante el embarazo son determinantes en el desarrollo embrionario, ya que pueden modificar el genoma del embrión. Este hallazgo confirma que las gestantes son capaces […]

Being big – larger than a dog – increases the risk of being wiped out in a mass extinction.

Four years after the nuclear accident at Fukushima, no one has been killed or sickened by radioactivity. But 1,600 died fleeing the disaster.

As the costs of genetic sequencing fall, oncologists are starting to prescribe expensive new drugs that target the genetic profiles of their patients’ tumours, even when those treatments have not […]

Un estudio publicado esta semana en ‘PNAS’ asegura que existe un sesgo que provoca que las mujeres reciban menos financiación que los hombres.