Ciencia en los medios

Scientists detected an invisible shield roughly 7,200 miles above the Earth’s surface that is protecting us from harmful, super-fast electrons flying close to the speed of light. It may sound like Star Trek tech, but this mysterious protective barrier isn’t science fiction. The findings, described in the journal Nature, could help scientists better understand the…

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The Square Kilometre Array (SKA)  will be made up of an unprecedented number of antennae spread across two continents for the first time (Australia and Africa). The SKA will see the radio sky with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution, enabling us to pick up extremely small and faint objects and probe the more distant universe. It is…

Specially designed ‘ISSpresso’ machine overcomes absence of gravity by firing pressurised water through capsule of coffee

El Museo de Historia Natural de Nueva York y la Universidad de Cambridge publican digitalizados los manuscritos del creador de la teoría de la evolución

¿Tu perro obedece inmediatamente a una orden y responde por su nombre? Aunque muchos dirían que su mejor amigo entiende todo, lo que en realidad hace el cerebro canino es diferenciar entre los sonidos del habla y la manera de expresarse. Según un nuevo estudio, el can atiende no solo a la persona que le…

A startup has created a water-repellent coating that could significantly increase power plants’ efficiency.  

Genetic blueprints attached to a rocket survived a short spaceflight and later passed on their biological instructions

Molecular signatures hint at who will benefit from next-generation cancer drugs.