Ciencia en los medios

A penguin-shaped anomaly first detected two years ago has survived a comprehensive new analysis of data from the first run of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Carnivorous amphibian Metoposaurus algarvensis grew to the size of a small car and dates back to the Late Triassic Period

Durante siglos, este objeto estelar bajo la constelación del Cisne ha sido un misterio para los astrónomos. Un nuevo análisis resuelve el enigma y arroja una sorpresa: pese a estar considerada la primera nova documentada en la historia, su naturaleza era bien distinta.

Currently, tissue engineering can provide simple, thin tissues including cartilage, skin, and bone. Larger, more complex organs like the liver and heart present much more formidable challenges. They are structurally intricate, contain many different cell types, and require an extensive network of blood vessels. The fact remains that today, if someone needs a complex organ, a…

Elgorriaren aurkako txertoaren inguruko albisteak ez dira arraroak azkenaldi honetan. Adibidez, urte hasieran, eztabaida bizia zuten AEBn, Disneylandian abenduan izan zuten elgorri-agerraldiaren harira. Inguru hartan gero eta guraso gehiagok haurrak ez txertatzearen ondorioz sortu zen agerraldia, eta adituek ez dute aurkitzen guraso horien iritzia aldarazteko modua.

Creases, ridges, folds and «delaminated buckles» are all different forms of wrinkling.

If you could take the high out of drugs, what would be the point in taking them? Meet the unorthodox doctor who thinks he can block some of the world’s most addictive pills.

Los humanos somos probablemente la especie más rara que jamás ha existido. Tenemos cerebros extravagantemente grandes que nos permiten construir complicados artefactos, entender conceptos abstractos y comunicarnos usando el lenguaje. También somos casi lampiños, tenemos mandíbulas débiles y nos cuesta dar a luz. ¿Cómo evolucionó una criatura tan estrafalaria?

What little ice remains on Mercury and Mars is mostly confined to the planets’ poles, as one would expect, because the sun shines the least in those regions. Not so on the moon. Much of the moon’s ice, which lurks beneath the surface, is found in an area 5.5° away from the north pole and…