Ciencia en los medios

Los ladrones tienen una compleja caja de herramientas cognitivas, con habilidades desarrolladas y automáticas, muy similar a la de un jugador de ajedrez o una estrella del tenis.

By replacing black holes with fuzzballs — dense, star-like objects from string theory — researchers think they can avoid some knotty paradoxes at the edge of physics.

Scientists say they have pinpointed the neurons that turn these birds into copycats. The discovery could not only illuminate the origins of bird-speak, but might shed light on how new […]

Attempts to attribute extreme weather events to global warming have often failed because they have looked at the wrong thing, leading climatologists claim. By focusing on rising temperatures, tides and […]

Un equipo de científicos ha obtenido los primeros datos de cómo era la cabeza de Hallucigenia, abuelo de los artrópodos y una de las criaturas más misteriosas de la evolución.

The race to uncover the structure of DNA reveals fascinating insights into how Franklin’s data was key to the double helix model, but the ‘stealing’ myth stems from Watson’s memoir […]

Dos tipos de cannabinoides –compuestos de la planta Cannabis sativa– han resultado efectivos en la muerte de las células tumorales de melanomas, sin afectar a las células sanas. El estudio, […]

Following on a surprising find reported last year, astronomers have now discovered almost 1,000 dark matter-rich galaxies in the Coma Cluster.

The rich array of microbiota in our intestines can tell us more than you might think.