Ciencia en los medios

For more than a decade scientists have been at a loss to explain why there are fewer stars than they predicted

Shell markings are the oldest abstract signs ever discovered.

Haustura hidraulikoa erabilita erauztea espero zuten gas-kantitatea berez ez dela hain handia erakutsi du Nature aldizkariak egindako azterketa batek. Hain zuzen, Estatu Batuetako energiari buruzko informazio-sailaren (EIA) aurreikuspenak eta Texasko Unibertsitearenak alderatu ditu Naturek, eta ondorioztatu du EIAren aurreikuspenak puztuta daudela.

Head direction cells in the bat hippocampus encode three-dimensional representations of space

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 objetos se emparejan con otra estrella de neutrones o una enana blanca e interfiere su gravedad. Pero esta teoría se podría analizar mucho mejor si…

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 in the Radium Institute of Paris, a brick mansion near the Jardin du Luxembourg. In a glass vessel, she examined fluid containing metal salts. She…

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 God,” he thought as his eyes moved up the slope. One by one, he recognized a thigh bone, a skull and a piece of jaw…