Science
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![[:es]Believe in Atlantis? These archaeologists want to win you back to science[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/04/ca_0412NID_Pakal_Tomb_Lid.jpg)
[:es]Believe in Atlantis? These archaeologists want to win you back to science[:]
In February, the popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience referred to an idea made famous by some books and TV shows: that an image of the Mayan King K’inich Janaab’ […]
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![[:es]Ancient ‘Snowball Earth’ thawed out in a flash[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/04/snowball_16x9_0.jpg)
[:es]Ancient ‘Snowball Earth’ thawed out in a flash[:]
More than half a billion years ago, our planet was a giant snowball hurtling through space. Glaciers blanketed the globe all the way to the equator in one of the […]
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![[:es]Physicists predict a way to squeeze light from the vacuum of empty space[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/04/Cherenkov_16x9.jpg)
[:es]Physicists predict a way to squeeze light from the vacuum of empty space[:]
Talk about getting something for nothing. Physicists predict that just by shooting charged particles through an electromagnetic field, it should be possible to generate light from the empty vacuum. In […]
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![[:es]Another major drug candidate targeting the brain plaques of Alzheimer’s disease has failed. What’s left?[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/03/36023721696_cfae08e39b_o.png)
[:es]Another major drug candidate targeting the brain plaques of Alzheimer’s disease has failed. What’s left?[:]
“Futile”—that’s the devastating label now attached to two highly anticipated clinical trials of a drug that targets β-amyloid, the neuron-killing protein fragment littering the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. […]
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![[:es]Gene-edited foods are safe, Japanese panel concludes[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/03/japan_16x9_3.jpg)
[:es]Gene-edited foods are safe, Japanese panel concludes[:]
Japan will allow gene-edited foodstuffs to be sold to consumers without safety evaluations as long as the techniques involved meet certain criteria, if recommendations agreed on by an advisory panel […]
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![[:es]People with dwarfism and cleft palate may have been revered in ancient times[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/03/ca_0315nid_skull_craniofacial_cleft_online.jpg)
[:es]People with dwarfism and cleft palate may have been revered in ancient times[:]
Researchers have been finding them for decades: bones that are too heavy or too light; too long or too short; twisted, perforated, or studded with protruding growth. They’re a sign […]
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![[:es]The Black Death may have transformed medieval societies in sub-Saharan Africa[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/03/plague-saints_16x9.jpg)
[:es]The Black Death may have transformed medieval societies in sub-Saharan Africa[:]
Medieval sub-Saharan Africa’s few written records make no mention of plague, and the region lacks mass graves resembling the “plague pits” of Europe. Nor did European explorers of the 15th […]
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![[:es]Has a second person with HIV been cured?[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/03/brown_main_16x9.jpg)
[:es]Has a second person with HIV been cured?[:]
Timothy Ray Brown, aka the “Berlin patient,” the only person to be cured of HIV, may finally have company. A decade after Brown became famous thanks to a stem cell […]
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![[:es]New way to turn carbon dioxide into coal could ‘rewind the emissions clock’[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2019/02/CO2_16x9.jpg)
[:es]New way to turn carbon dioxide into coal could ‘rewind the emissions clock’[:]
If humans hope to limit climate change to just 2°C of warming, we’ve got a lot of work to do, scientists say: reducing emissions, planting trees, and scrubbing carbon dioxide […]