Ciencia en los medios
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An Ill Wind Blows in Antarctica, Threatens Global Flooding
Fiercer winds from the Southern Ocean means a faster meltdown of ice
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Descubren por qué las bacterias son casi indestructibles
Un equipo de científicos descubre los mecanismos que permiten a la famosa E. coli y a otras bacterias reparar su material genético en las situaciones más extremas. Este conocimiento podría ayudar a combatir las infecciones más resistentes.
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Open minded? Here’s how much facial stereotyping influences your decisions
When we make important social decisions – which political candidate to vote for, whether to trust someone with our money, whether a person is guilty of a crime – we’d like to think we do so rationally, and solely based on relevant pieces of information. After all, given the high stakes involved, we’d be foolish…
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Halladas las tres rutas genéticas del autismo
Las causas del autismo llevan medio siglo en discusión y siguen sin estar claras, pero cada vez resulta más evidente la trascendencia de los factores genéticos. Dos macroestudios presentados en Natureconfirman ahora las fuertes y complejas componentes genéticas del autismo, identifican más de 100 genes implicados en el riesgo de desarrollarlo y revelan las tres…
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From Discovery to Dust
The idea was too beautiful to be wrong. That you could start with nothing, apply some basic laws of physics, and get auniverse out of it—a universe that was uniform on the largest scales but replete with the lumps and bumps we call stars and galaxies, a universe, that is, that looks like ours—well, it…
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Ebolaren aurkako txertoa, prest 2015erako
Ebolari aurre egiteko behar diren txerto-dosiak datorren urterako prest izan nahi dituela iragarri du MOEk, Genevan egin berri duen bileran. Iragarpena ausarta den arren, laborategiek normalean txertoak garatzeko behar izaten duten denbora-tartea laburtzea lortzen ari dira ebolaren kausan. Hala, dagoeneko bi txerto ari dira probatzen pertsona osasuntsuetan; are gehiago, laster, Afrika mendebaldean proba zabalak egiteko…
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Fresh hints of dark matter at Milky Way’s core
The centre of the galaxy looks to be lit up by the death-throes of dark matter. Spotting another of the signals we expect to see from dark matter particles annihilating each other could boost confidence that previous observations were the real deal. It could also offer a new way to examine the properties of the…
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Astronomers capture first ever data of an exploding fireball from a nova star
Researchers reveal the nova was about 14,800 light years from the sun, meaning the explosion witnessed in August last year happened 15,000 years ago.
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Algae-Based Material Takes On Body Odor
It isn’t actually perspiration that causes that dank gym scent but rather the bacteria that thrive off sweat. Good news: A team of Swedish researchers from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology has found a way to eliminate the growth of this smell-inducing bacteria using one of nature’s best antimicrobials, algae. Even better: They’ve created…