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La revisión por pares en ciencia –donde científicos independientes expertos en la materia valoran elpaper– es la estrategia actual para garantizar la calidad y el control en la investigación científica y, por ello, es fundamental para el mundo académico. Sin embargo, un estudio liderado por la portuguesa Catarina Ferreira desentraña por qué este sistema recibe…

Alcoholic beverages are imbibed in nearly every human society across the world—sometimes, alas, to excess. Although recent evidence suggests that tippling might have deep roots in our primate past, nonhuman primates are only rarely spotted in the act of indulgence. A new study of chimpanzees with easy access to palm wine shows that some drink…

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has detected deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars. Though formed in the searing heat of a violent impact, such deposits might provide a delicate window into the possibility of past life on the Red Planet.

Hasta hace una semana teníamos la absoluta certeza de que el sistema linfático no llegaba al cerebro. Pero no es cierto. Un hallazgo casual cambia todo lo que dábamos por cierto.

Ehun mikrometroko diametroa duen xiringa-orratz mehe bat erabilita, sagu baten garunean zirkuitu elektroniko bat injektatzea lortu dute, Harvard Unibertsitateko eta Beijingeko Nanozientzia eta Teknologia Zentroko neurozientzialariek.

Un estudio  analiza por primera vez los cambios en el epigenoma durante la maduración de un tipo de células del sistema inmunológico, los linfocitos B. Este proceso modificaría de forma masiva la estructura epigenética del ADN en más del 30% del genoma humano.

To understand how Darwin arrived at these conclusions it is necessary to turn to the manuscripts from the first half of his life. They reveal something that is not nearly so well known about Darwin: he was also a great geologist. Not only that, his geological work was essential to developing his great insight into…

From the earliest Western philosophers to the most technologically-equipped neuroscientists, the apparent connection between creative genius and mental illness has been a source of fascination and study. In the end, it may be geneticists – aided by the people of Iceland – who show that link is real.

Known as the Event Horizon Telescope, named after the point of no return in a black hole, its job was to see what has been until now unseeable: an exquisitely small, dark circle of nothing, a tiny shadow in the glow of radiation at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. It is there that…