La ciencia en los medios

String theory, the multiverse and other ideas of modern physics are potentially untestable. At a historic meeting in Munich, scientists and philosophers asked: should we trust them anyway?

Humans have now been living on the International Space Station for 15 years. Here’s what we’ve learned.

Hace algo más de un año, en medio de una rueda de prensa durante el festival científico Starmus, un brioso Harold Kroto se lanzó a una discusión acalorada con dos astronautas del programa Apolo. Los dos héroes de la carrera espacial negaban que los humanos estuviesen acelerando el cambio climático y eso fue más de…

Around 2013, esoteric programming language enthusiast and comics writer named David Morgan-Mar unveiled his Intelligent Design Sort, an algorithm that doesn’t actually sort information and instead just says that it must already be sorted according to the will of a great unknowable being.

Un análisis de todas las investigaciones que se han realizado hasta la fecha muestra los vacíos de información que aún existen sobre este controvertido asunto y lo infrecuentes que son este tipo de ataques.

SpaceX estrena el Falcon Heavy, Rusia inaugura Vostochny, la NASA lanza una sonda a un cometa y Rosetta termina su misión. Nos espera un año movido lejos de la Tierra.

Neuroscientists have struggled to understand exactly how the circadian clock affects our minds. After all, researchers can’t simply pop open a subject’s skull and monitor his brain cells over the course of each day. A few years ago, Dr. Akil and her colleagues came up with an idea for the next best thing.

Almost 100 manuscripts have appeared on the preprint server in the wake of last week’s announcement.

2016 may be the year we finally figure out where dogs came from. Scientists have debated where and when our canine pals arose for decades, and now they may be close to an answer.