Ciencia en los medios

Científicos e ingenieros trabajan para dotar a los autómatas de un sistema parecido al nuestro para evitar que se hagan daño y mejorar sus interacciones en situaciones de peligro.

More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments. Those are some of the telling figures that emerged from Nature‘s survey of 1,576 researchers who took a brief online questionnaire on reproducibility in research.

Male rats exposed to cellphone radiation in a large U.S. government study were more likely to develop rare brain and heart cancers, a preliminary analysis has found, adding weight to concerns the ubiquitous devices could pose a health risk to people. But though the study is the most comprehensive yet of lab animals exposed to…

Al noroeste de Colombia, una mutación genética provoca de forma precoz y segura el mal de Alzhéimer. Allí llaman a la enfermedad ‘la bobera de los Piedrahita’, por una de las 25 familias afectadas. Ahora, un ensayo clínico examina a los habitantes de la región para probar en ellos tratamientos preventivos. 300 voluntarios de esos…

Atxurra haitzuloa Berriatuan dago (Bizkaia), eta aspalditik da ezaguna. Duela gutxira arte, ordea, inor ez zen ohartu labar-artea gordetzen zuenik. 2014ean Diego Garate arkeologoak gidatuta hasitako lanen emaitza ikusgarriena izan da aurkikuntza, eta Altxerri (Gipuzkoa) edo Erberuarekin (Nafarroa Beherea) pareka daitekeela adierazi dute.

The conclusion that the universe is teeming with biology is based on an unproved assumption

Dreams might not be omens or prophecies in a mystical sense, but they do have a distinct psychological predictive power

The power of niceness shouldn’t be underestimated. Some studies have shown that having a nice personality can even affect impressions of a person’s physical attractiveness.

Mendeetan zehar matematikari askok lortu ez zutena lortu zuen Wiles-ek: Fermaten azken teorema ebaztea. Historikoki duen garrantzia eta matematikaren garapenean izan duen eragin handia goraipatu dute, matematikarientzat Nobel Sariaren pareko dena eman diotenean.