Science
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[:eu]Pioneering study images activity in fetal brains[:]
[:eu]Babies born prematurely are prone to problems later in life—they’re more likely to develop autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and more likely to struggle in school. A new study […]
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[:eu]Fossil leaves suggest global warming will be harder to fight than scientists thought[:]
[:eu]Scientists have developed a new method for wringing CO2 estimates from fossilized leaves—one that can go deeper into the past, and with more certainty.[:]
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[:eu]Analysis of more than 50,000 genomes hints at new disease-causing genes[:]
[:eu]In the largest study of its kind, a research team has meshed extensive genome data on more than 50,000 people with their electronic health records and identified potential new disease-causing […]
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[:eu]Glowworms harness a surprising ingredient to keep their threads sticky[:]
[:eu]This isn’t a photo of the Milky Way; it’s a deep, dark cave in New Zealand. And those blue things aren’t stars; they’re maggots. A chemical reaction in their Malpighian […]
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[:eu]Alien life could thrive in the clouds of failed stars[:]
[:eu]Floating out by themselves in the Milky Way galaxy are perhaps a billion cold brown dwarfs, objects many times as massive as Jupiter but not big enough to ignite as […]
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[:eu]Are the best students really that advanced? [:]
[:eu]Students taking the most challenging math and science courses in their senior year were found to have performed progressively worse as they moved from elementary to middle to high school. […]
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[:es]’Atlas of the Underworld’ reveals oceans and mountains lost to Earth’s history[:]
[:es]Next month, at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California, a team of Dutch scientists will announce a catalog of 100 subducted plates, with information about […]
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[:es]Radio burst hits Earth from a billion light-years away[:]
[:es]Every day, space is filled with thousands of mysterious bursts of radio energy, enormous flashes that typically pack as much energy into a few milliseconds as the sun emits in […]
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[:es]Australian continent shifts with the seasons[:en]Australian continent shifts with the seasons[:]
[:en]Every summer, the «land down under» does a little dance: It slowly shifts 1 millimeter to the northwest and dips down 2 to 3 millimeters on its northwestern side. When […]