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From declining royal honour to refusing to sit for a portrait, correspondences show co-discoverer of evolutionary theory avoiding publicity

In the future, you may be less likely to ask a friend to lend a hand. That’s because you may have a mechanical one attached to your shoulder.

As our lives become increasingly surrounded by devices and objects that can communicate, collect, and transmit data, we’re brushing up against the advent of the so-called Internet of Things. Known as IoT in tech-speak, it promises to connect our refrigerators with our toasters, our lights with our thermostats, and our fitness monitors back with our…

Jill Farrant investiga sobre plantas reviviscentes, aquellas que son capaces de sobrevivir sin agua durante meses y quedar aparentemente muertas hasta que cae sobre ellas una gota de agua. Su objetivo es aplicar el conocimiento del genoma de estas plantas para diseñar nuevos cultivos que resistan las condiciones de sequía que serán cada vez mas…

A Mauricio Antón le susurran los huesos. Restos óseos fosilizados en las profundidades de terrenos de todo el mundo le cuentan su historia. Le relatan la expresión de su rostro, el color de su mirada o su rotundo caminar. Mauricio es un paleoartista. De los mejores del mundo. Encadena la ciencia más precisa con el…

Maryam Mirzakhani’s monumental work draws deep connections between topology, geometry and dynamical systems.

Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian mathematician who was the only woman ever to win a Fields Medal, the most prestigious honor in mathematics, died on Saturday. She was 40.

And a possible explanation for how gas giants are formed

Hydrothermal vent models transform the origins of life from unlikely to near-inevitable.