Zientzia hedabideetan
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Ebola: The road to zero
The worst of the Ebola epidemic may be over but the World Health Organization has declared that life in Sierra Leone, as in other Ebola-affected West African countries, can only […]
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Some scientists are convinced more planets exist in our Solar System
Not many years ago, the idea our Solar System might contain undiscovered planets beyond Pluto would have been considered science fiction. But now, with NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft three months […]
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Concerns of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer
The computer scientist Stuart Russell wants to ensure that our increasingly intelligent machines remain aligned with human values.
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¿Por qué solo los humanos modernos tienen barbilla?
En esta foto del cráneo de un humano moderno y de un neandertal frente a frente, ¿echan en falta algo? Existe una característica que los primates, neandertales y humanos arcaicos […]
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To find breast cancer, more mammograms aren’t better, expert panel says
“Women ages 40 to 49 must weigh a very important but infrequent benefit (small reduction in breast cancer deaths) against a group of meaningful and much more common harms,” according […]
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Astronomers discover largest known structure in the universe is … a big hole
Scientists searching for an explanation for an unusually cool area of sky instead discovered a supervoid: an empty spherical blob 1.8 billion light years across
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Sex offending may be in the genes but knowing that won’t prevent it
The research, which analysed DNA from 21,566 men convicted of sex offences in Sweden between 1973 and 2009, found that sons and brothers of convicted sex offenders were four to […]
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Tres opciones para sustituir a una Ley de Moore que se acerca a su fin
Cuando Gordon Moore publicó un articulo en la revista ‘Electronics’ no sabía que con él cambiaría la manera de entender la tecnología. Ahora ha llegado el momento de encontrar una […]
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Our Ever Green World
In surprising new research on the evolution of different forms of photosynthesis, scientists have found that the prized oxygen-making variety may be much older than anybody suspected, and that the […]