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String theory has so far failed to live up to its promise as a way to unite gravity and quantum mechanics. At the same time, it has blossomed into one of the most useful sets of tools in science.

Jitendra Malik, a researcher in computer vision for three decades, doesn’t own a Tesla, but he has advice for people who do. “Knowing what I know about computer vision, I wouldn’t take my hands off the steering wheel,” he said.

Mendekotasunei buruzko ikerketetan emakumeak baztertu egiten direla salatu dute, Addiction Biology aldizkariaren azken zenbakian.

Un equipo de arqueólogos ha hallado los restos de un hombre joven, que murió junto al artilugio astronómico más famoso y misterioso de todos los tiempos. El análisis de su ADN puede ofrecer nuevos datos.

DNA from extinct species forces rethink of elephants’ family tree.

El Sakurajima podría arrasar la cercana ciudad de Kagosima, conocida como el ‘Nápoles de Oriente’

Reconstruction is based on studies of a spectacular fossil from China, preserved with skin and pigments intact

Gaia sateliteak bere lehen lan-urtean behatu dituen izarrekin osatutako mapa aurkeztu du Europako Espazio Agentziak (ESA). Gaiaren helburua Esne Bidearen hiru dimentsioko mapa osatzea da, eta dagoeneko mila egun daramatza lanean. Orain, lehen urtean jasotako irudiekin osatutako mapa aurkeztu du ESAk; mapak mila milioi izar baino gehiago biltzen ditu.

Gambling addiction stands out for its destructive power and pull. With substance problems, people can blame the chemical activity of drugs and argue that addiction occurs when repeated exposure physically alters the brain. But gambling causes life catastrophes that are at least as extreme—sometimes more—without any kind of foreign psychoactive chemical getting under the skin,…