La ciencia en los medios

Un estudio vincula la hibernación estacional de los osos con cambios en los microbios intestinales. Los hallazgos podrían ayudar a diseñar tratamientos contra la obesidad.

It’s not the contested issue you’d think it is, looking at Twitter. But I have to be honest, it can be difficult when religious supervisors attend my science sessions.

We often think of conservation in terms of wildlife sanctuaries and breeding programs, but its Janus face is eradication. The survival of one population of animals, like the fox, sometimes necessitates the destruction of another, like the turkey. This is especially the case on islands, which are arks for vulnerable flora and fauna.

Lucas’ droids are halfway between human and inhuman, so we can both love and ignore them.

Un análisis de sus retratos muestra un deterioro articular que le impedía escribir cartas pero no trabajar el mármol

The Guinea worm, and the havoc it wreaks, has nearly been wiped out

La incidencia y mortalidad por cáncer están aumentando en todo el mundo, especialmente en los países de ingresos bajos y medios, donde se ha mejorado la esperanza de vida. Pero no es lo mismo tener un cáncer en Europa que en África. Los últimos estudios revelan la enorme desigualdad en las cifras de supervivencia tras…

Researchers managed to increase the lifespan of mice by an impressive 25% by deleting “senescent” cells, dysfunctional cells which build up as we age and cause damage to tissue. Crucially, the mice lived longer because they were healthier.

Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier had to know something was amiss. Not in his data or his analysis, but with the planet Mercury itself. It was 1859, and Le Verrier, a giant of French astronomy, was attempting to fine-tune his mathematical model of Mercury—the “theory” of the planet’s motions expressed within mathematical models based on Newtonian gravitation.