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NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars in 2012, in part to analyze rocks to see whether the Red Planet was ever habitable (or inhabited). But now the robot has gone off script, picking out its own targets for analysis—precisely as planned.

Engineered microbes turn a bacterium’s immune response against itself using CRISPR.

The British physicist and mathematician Sir Roger Penrose conjectured in 1969 that visible or “naked” singularities are actually forbidden from forming in nature, in a kind of cosmic censorship. But why should quantum gravity censor itself?

Una corriente de agua, conocida como NEGIS, es el punto de fuga de gran parte del hielo derretido que termina en el mar.

Physicists monitoring the Large Hadron Collider are seeking clues to a theory that will answer deeper questions about the cosmos. But the silence from the frontier has been ominous.

Research supports Gould’s hypothesis that new characteristics evolve during periods of rapid change.

Dos estudios ayudan a conocer las raíces de la solidaridad y la colaboración como fruto de la evolución

Tras analizar muestras de pelo de osos polares del mar de Beaufort (océano Ártico), un equipo de investigadores de EE UU ha descubierto que este mamífero cada año concentra una menor cantidad de mercurio en su organismo. Los autores sospechan que este descenso se debe a cambios en su dieta a causa del calentamiento global.

A neurologist’s perspective on research into consciousness