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When the objective eye of science is trained on the question of animal subjectivity, the evidence is always indirect and inevitably in dispute.

Human skeletons and archaeological remains in Australia can be traced back nearly 50,000 years before the trail disappears. Before then, apparently, Australia was free of humans. So how did people get there, and when? Where did humans first arrive on the continent, and how did they spread across the entire landmass?

Las cartas de Alexander von Humboldt, padre de muchas ideas fundacionales del ecologismo, muestran su agradecimiento a la corona hispánica en cuyas colonias realizó su investigación

This summer, NASA scientists will create the chillest zone in the known universe inside of cooler-sized payload, appropriately named the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL). The small suite of instruments is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in August, on SpaceX CRS-12 mission, where it will leverage the station’s microgravity environment to create…

La profesora Cinzia Casiraghi dirige un laboratorio especializado en materiales bidimensionales como el grafeno en la Universidad de Mánchester (Reino Unido), con los que fabrica fotodetectores y memorias lógicas mediante tintas de impresión. Llegar hasta aquí no ha sido nada fácil para esta ingeniera italiana, según ha comentado a Sinc durante el encuentro Women in…

The objects and people children play with as early as toddlerhood may provide clues to their eventual sexual orientation, reveals the largest study of its kind. The investigation, which tracked more than 4500 kids over the first 15 years of their lives, seeks to answer one of the most controversial questions in the social sciences,…

Campaign on Wikipedia seeks to track down photos of female scientists and those from minority ethnic groups.

Un programa de aprendizaje automático analiza el historial del acusado para determinar si debe esperar a su juicio desde casa o presenta riesgo de fuga. Y resulta que funciona mejor que los juece

People with coeliac disease need to avoid gluten, but a gluten-free diet is otherwise best avoided. It raises the risk of type 2 diabetes.