La ciencia en los medios

Fetal tissue may prove crucial to probing link between virus and birth defects.

Un equipo internacional de astrónomos logra captar una aglomeración de polvo en órbita de un astro que está a 460 años luz de la Tierra

Scientists are sitting on top of the world after this monumental discovery and are eager to keep exploring the universe

Adimen artifizialaren arlotik datoz notiziak. Duela gutxi, Googlek garatutako AlphaGo programak Go mahai-jokoaren munduko txapelduna garaitzea lortu zuen. Handik egun batzuetara, Microsoftek Tay aurkeztu zuen.

To map the roughly 1300 connections, or synapses, between the cells, researchers used an electron microscope to take millions of nanoscopic pictures from a speck of tissue not much bigger than a dust mite, carved into nearly 3700 slices.

Investigadores de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona han ideado un método de ‘destilación cuántica’ que, por primera vez, permite medir el grado de coherencia de cualquier estado de superposición. Un ejemplo de este estado cúantico es el del famoso gato de Schrödinger, que se encuentra vivo y muerto a la vez.

The Go-playing program captures elements of human intuition, an advance that promises far-reaching consequences.

Spotting the bacteria that causes food poisoning has always been a time-consuming and expensive business. Until now.

In 2004, the British chemist Chris Dobson speculated that there might be a universal elixir out there that could combat not just alpha-synuclein for Parkinson’s but the amyloids caused by many protein-misfolding diseases at once. Remarkably, in that same year an Israeli scientist named Beka Solomon discovered an unlikely candidate for this elixir, a naturally…