Ciencia en los medios

Usted no los ve pero están ahí. Miles de programas trabajan a su alrededor cada día para hacerle la vida más fácil o para encontrar un punto débil en su seguridad. Así es la batalla diaria con los algoritmos.

A quantum computing pioneer explains why analog simulators may beat out general-purpose digital quantum machines — for now.

Borneo’s mammals are threatened by a one-two punch of logging and climate change, but only a small amount of additional land needs to be protected to safeguard many of the species at risk, scientists report  in Current Biology.

When a person dies from cancer, the culprit is usually not the original tumor but rather the cancerous cells that spread throughout the body and replicate in distant organs, a process called metastasis. Researchers have long known that metastasizing cancer cells slip their bonds and avoid immune detection by altering the sugars on their surfaces.…

Our ape-like ancestors may have stopped dragging their knuckles and started making tools a half million years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study.

La biomedicina lleva años buscando las claves de enfermedades en el ADN de sus pacientes. Se han descrito miles de mutaciones relacionadas con la hipertensión, la diabetes y el alzhéimer, sin embargo, algunos científicos han decidido cambiar de perspectiva. ¿Por qué no estudiar también a los que, a pesar de poseer una herencia genética desfavorable,…

A fleeting but immensely powerful celestial signal has been “heard” live for the first time, radio astronomers in Australia have announced, bringing scientists a step closer to discovering its mysterious origins.

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Drones able to take water samples could be the first in a new wave of hands-on aerial robots.