La ciencia en los medios

Insects, whether they creep or fly, live in a world of hard knocks. Who has not stepped on a cockroach, then raised her shoe to watch the creature get up and scoot under a door? Bees and wasps, for their part, face a never-ending obstacle course of leaves, stems, and petals—bumblebees crash their wings into…

España ha conseguido tejer una eficiente red de bancos de cerebros, fundamentales para la investigación neurológica gracias a la concienciación de los donantes.

En los siglos VI y VII, la temperatura bajó hasta 4º, afectando a civilizaciones en Europa y Asia

Mistakes in peer-reviewed papers are easy to find but hard to fix, report David B. Allison and colleagues.

Todo comenzó con un pez y terminó en nuestro cerebro, pero eso tomó siglos. No obstante, los experimentos que se hicieron en el intervalo dieron frutos, como las pilas, e inspiraron novelas, como Frankenstein.

Europe’s replacement forests aren’t half as good at cooling the planet as the old broad-leafed variety.

Jaioberriek amaren baginako jariakinekin izaten duten hartu-emana eten egiten da zesarea bidez jaiotzen direnean. Ondorioz, ez dute garatzen jaioberriengan ohikoa den mikrobiota. Hasierako bakterio-komunitateek haurraren sistema immunearen eta digestioaren garapenean duen garrantzia ikusita, horretan eragiteko modua bilatzen aritu dira ikertzaileak. Pasa den astean Nature Medicinealdizkarian argitaratutako ikerketaren arabera, lortu dute mikrobiota hori partzialki berreskuratzeko modu…

Fear of the Zika virus could generate support for gene drives, a radical technology able to make species go extinct.

Many women understand that if they act too assertively, they will face backlash. They will seem unlikeable. But while extensive research has documented this phenomenon, some studies have failed to find it. Which raises a question: Are there ways women can be strong without penalty? A new paper in Psychological Bulletin reports that yes, there…