Science in the media
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Resuelven el misterio del zafiro de mar, el copépodo de mil colores
Estas diminutas criaturas se hicieron famosas a partir de un vídeo en el que una de ellas aparecía y desaparecía desplegando sus increíbles colores. Un equipo de científicos ha explicado […]
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El fitoplacton aumenta el albedo de las nubes del océano Antártico
El proceso de formación de las nubes y su influencia en la temperatura de la Tierra son dos factores relevantes en las investigaciones sobre el clima. Ahora, un equipo internacional […]
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The Really Big One
The next full-margin rupture of the Cascadia subduction zone will spell the worst natural disaster in the history of the American continent.
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Tiny Brain Clumps Offer New Clues into the Cause of Autism
By turning stem cells taken from autistic patients into tiny “organoids” that closely resemble the brains of human embryos, researchers have gleaned potentially valuable insights into what may go wrong […]
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Why the Data Deluge Leaves Us Struggling to Make Up Our Minds
The problem we face now is that we have too many decisions to make every day, leading to decision fatigue – we find the act of making our own decisions […]
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Life without design
Constructor theory is a new vision of physics, but it helps to answer a very old question: why is life possible at all?
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7 instrumentos y 9 “polizones” a bordo de New Horizons, la sonda que sobrevoló Plutón
En los huecos que dejan libre estos instrumentos viajan otros objetos que, desde un punto de vista estrictamente científico, no tienen valor alguno.
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Stem cell treatments for mitochondrial disease may be possible
Doctors have limited options for treating mitochondrial disease, but a team led by a prominent innovator may have taken an important step toward developing new therapies: rewinding diseased cells from patients […]
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Buckyballs in space solve 100-year-old riddle
Spheres of carbon-60 responsible for mysterious cosmic-light features.