Science Alert
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![[:es] Climate Change Has Now Invisibly Shifted Earth’s Axis, New Data Reveal [:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2021/04/PNG-1-6.png)
[:es] Climate Change Has Now Invisibly Shifted Earth’s Axis, New Data Reveal [:]
Humanity’s impacts on our planet’s climate are so profound, we have for decades been unwittingly shifting the very axis upon which Earth spins around, scientists say.
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![[:es] Ancient Bear DNA Sequenced From Old Cave Dirt in Historic First For Science [:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2020/04/PNG-2-2.png)
[:es] Ancient Bear DNA Sequenced From Old Cave Dirt in Historic First For Science [:]
The dirt scattered across the floor of an ancient, remote cave in Mexico has yielded a new source of viable ancient DNA.
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![[:es] Visual Illusion Reveals That Depression Can Change How We Physically See The World [:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2020/04/PNG-2-4.png)
[:es] Visual Illusion Reveals That Depression Can Change How We Physically See The World [:]
We know that depression is linked to variations in the way our brains are wired, but new research suggests that people who are going through a depressive episode actually see the world around them differently.
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![[:es] Physicists Observe Fleeting ‘Polaron’ Quasiparticles For The First Time [:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2021/01/polaron-1.gif)
[:es] Physicists Observe Fleeting ‘Polaron’ Quasiparticles For The First Time [:]
Polarons are important nanoscale phenomena: a transient configuration between electrons and atoms (known as quasiparticles) that exist for only trillionths of a second.
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![[:es] Research Finds There’s More Than One Type of Curiosity. Which Do You Have? [:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2021/01/curious-2-jpg.jpg)
[:es] Research Finds There’s More Than One Type of Curiosity. Which Do You Have? [:]
Curiosity affects everything from our relationships to our education, but it’s not easy to pin down and put under a microscope to study. With the help of Wikipedia though, researchers have now done just, exploring two main types of curiosity.
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![[:es] NASA Detected Phosphine on Venus Decades Ago And Didn’t Realise, Scientists Claim [:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2020/10/Venus-real_color.jpg)
[:es] NASA Detected Phosphine on Venus Decades Ago And Didn’t Realise, Scientists Claim [:]
If life does exist on Venus, NASA may have first detected it back in 1978. But the finding went unnoticed for 42 years.
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![[:es]Oxygen on Mars Is Behaving in a Way Scientists Can’t Explain[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/11/mars-clouds_1024.gif)
[:es]Oxygen on Mars Is Behaving in a Way Scientists Can’t Explain[:]
Atmospheric gases on Mars sure provide us with plenty of mystery. First, there was that business with the disappearing, reappearing methane. Now, oxygen levels have been observed rising and falling over the Gale Crater, by amounts that just don’t fit any known chemical processes.
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![[:es]Google’s Latest Self-Learning AI Is Like an “Alien Civilisation Inventing Its Own Mathematics”[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/10/ai-stringface-shutterstock_google-ai_1024.jpg)
[:es]Google’s Latest Self-Learning AI Is Like an “Alien Civilisation Inventing Its Own Mathematics”[:]
Okay, that’s pretty awesome.