Cosmos
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[:es]Music of the spheres: chain of planets rotates at “perfect fifth” intervals[:]
Citizen scientists combine to identify longest chain of synchronised exoplanets ever discovered – and best described by the language of music.
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[:es]Not just genes: identical twins exhibit “supersimilarity”[:]
In a surprising finding, some markers believed to be environmental in origin are repeated in twins.
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[:es]Moderate warming tipped to produce flood of refugees into Europe[:]
Climate modelling finds temperature increase as significant as conflict in creating asylum-seekers.
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[:es]Pinpointing autism’s faulty circuitry[:]
Uncovering a crucial sociability circuit brings a therapeutic remedy for autism a step closer.
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[:es]Non-magnetic dwarfs turn out to be magnetic[:]
NASA’s Kepler satellite provides detailed data to overturn conventional thinking on magnetism and accretion discs.
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[:es]Smackdown! Mini-moons punched straight through the planet’s core[:]
Modelling finds the contribution of “planetesimals” to Earth’s mass was much larger than thought
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[:es]Smoke on the water, data in the DNA[:]
The latest in high-density ultra-durable data storage has been perfected over billions of years by nature itself.
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[:es]Scientists invent the abacus[:]
A high-tech spin on an ancient system could signal a revolution in high-speed computation.
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[:es]The bad science of medical cannabis[:]
Millions of people use cannabis as a medicine. That’s not based on clinical evidence, nor do we know which of the hundreds of compounds in the plant is responsible for […]