Ciencia en los medios

The idea that seemingly short-lived viral infections could cause long-term symptoms is fairly new to scientists. They long believed that once your body cleared an infection, its symptoms should disappear, too. But that isn’t always the case, says Kristy Murray, an epidemiologist and veterinarian at Baylor College of Medicine’s School of Tropical Medicine. “Some people are…

These people, unbeknownst to them, carry genes that all but guarantee that they’ll get fatal diseases. And yet, somehow, they’re completely healthy. They might carry other genes that mitigate their risk. Or perhaps, some aspect of their diet, lifestyle, or environment shields them from their harmful inheritance.

Un equipo de científicos redibuja el esquema de los seres vivos tras analizar miles de genomas de nuevas especies. En el nuevo árbol los eucariotas somos una rama diminuta al lado de las bacterias.

Older gems, younger crystals both formed under similar conditions deep within Earth, trapped carbonates suggest

La insignificante masa de los neutrinos, unas partículas subatómicas que podrían ser materia y antimateria a la vez, mantiene en vilo a científicos de todo el mundo. Ahora investigadores de la Universidad de Tokio, con la colaboración de un físico español, han utilizado uno de los ordenadores más potentes del mundo para analizar una desintegración…

New research suggests that the sugar ribose — the «R» in RNA — is probably found in comets and asteroids that zip through the solar system and may be more abundant throughout the universe than was previously thought.

La guerra del futuro tendrá pocas bajas humanas. Los robots dominarán tanto los cielos como los mares, aunque sus vehículos se parecen poco a los androides de ‘Terminator’

GIB birusarekiko erresistentzia emateko helburuarekin, giza enbrioien genoma eraldatu dute Txinan, CRISPR teknologiaren bidez.

In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long?