Ciencia en los medios

La luz intermitente que emiten los púlsares, los relojes más precisos del universo, sirve a los científicos para verificar la teoría de la relatividad de Einstein, sobre todo cuando estos […]

People have infrared vision — and it could be the result of pairs of photons combining their energies to appear as one ‘visible’ photon.

Un sistema desarrollado por Intel permite al científico transmitir sus pensamientos más rápido y realizar tareas cotidianas en la décima parte de tiempo

Just after Christmas of 1938, a young woman named Marguerite Perey — then 29, with a plain, open face, her eyes intent upon her work — sat at a bench […]

It was November 24, 1974, around noon, and Donald Johanson, a 31-year-old associate professor of anthropology at Case Western Reserve University, had just spotted an elbow in Ethiopia. “Oh my […]

Some 40 million years ago around the Baltic Sea coast, an insect-killing plant was busy trapping bugs. Its leaves, about as long as a pencil eraser, eventually fell into sticky […]

What do we actually mean by research and how does it help inform our understanding of things? Those people looking for proof to come from any research in science will […]

Climate change played a pivotal role in the extinction of mastodons in North America, new radiocarbon dating of fossils has revealed – though hunting by people may have been the […]

Naloxone can reverse an otherwise fatal heroin overdose within minutes. Carrie Arnold meets the doctors who put this remarkable drug in the hands of the police, families and addicts—and saved thousands […]