Science in the media

Fast-spinning pulsars can act as the universe’s timekeepers

Imagine a world without liquid water — just solid ice in all directions. It would certainly not be a place that most life forms would like to live. And yet […]

A series of experiments has produced incredible results by giving young blood to old mice. Now the findings are being tested on humans. Ian Sample meets the scientists whose research […]

Losing your sense of smell takes away more than scents and flavours – it can fundamentally change the way you relate to other people.

¿Por qué no hay pruebas científicas contundentes sobre la existencia de la memoria fotográfica o eidética?

In the quest for a unified, coherent description of all of nature — a “theory of everything” — physicists have unearthed the taproots linking ever more disparate phenomena.

Two years after physicists predicted that tin should be able to form a mesh just one atom thick, researchers say that they have made it. The thin film, called stanene, […]

As bodies meld with machines, are we leaving ourselves behind?

Científicos estadounidenses han creado un mapa de las zonas de mayor riesgo para la población autóctona de salamandras en EE UU, Canadá y México ante la amenaza de un hongo […]