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La base teórica estaba ahí, pero nadie había podido observar este fenómeno en la naturaleza. Su confirmación permitiría mejorar la precisión de las mediciones y observar las ondas gravitacionales.

La NASA ha adaptado una vieja técnica de fotografía para analizar las ondas de impacto de sus aviones supersónicos. El sistema podría ayudar a desarrollar aeronaves que causen menos impacto al romper la barrera del sonido y aplicarse a futuros vuelos comerciales.

John Horton Conway claims to have never worked a day in his life. This adaptation from the biography Genius at Play shows how serious advances such as the surreal numbers can spring out of fun and games.

Mice fed a diet high in saturated fat show shifts in their gut microbes and develop obesity-related inflammation.

A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism finds that people who develop type-2 diabetes used significantly more antibiotics—even 15 years before they were diagnosed—than people without the disease.

Oliver Sacks maisua izan zen zientzia eta literatura uztartzen. 82 urterekin hil zen, minbiziaren ondorioz. Hain zuzen, joan den otsailean, gibeleko minbizi hilgarria zuela iragarri zuen The New York Times egunkarian argitaratutako artikulu batean. Artikulu hartan, bizitzaren eta heriotzaren aurrean sentitzen zuena adierazi zuen; besteak beste, “pribilegiatua” zela adierazi zuen, izaki zentzumenduna eta adimenduna izateko…

A new study shows that the field suffers from a reproducibility problem, but the extent of the issue is still hard to nail down.

A new imaging technique helps researchers map the damage from traumatic brain injury with unprecedented accuracy.

Scientists continue to discover ways that the viruses, bacteria and fungi that make a home in the human digestive system—also known as the human microbiome—may help further illuminate how the brain works, why it malfunctions, and especially what causes certain psychiatric illnesses.