Zientzia hedabideetan

Venus and asteroids have emerged as top destinations for NASA’s future planetary exploration. On 30 September, the agency announced a shortlist of five contenders for its US$500-million Discovery class of […]

Un estudio muestra que aquellos pacientes que mejor responden al tratamiento con píldoras falsas tienen después una mejor reacción ante el tratamiento de verdad.  Los científicos quieren usar este efecto […]

Una aplicación informática permite predecir cuántos delitos y de qué tipo se van a producir en el próximo turno policial. El sistema ha sido desarrollado por científicos del Cuerpo Nacional […]

Evolution has sculpted the human genome to cope with Earth’s toughest climates, inadvertently pointing geneticists towards medically important genes.

Human endogenous retroviruses may cause or contribute to some forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

If life can survive in the prehistoric waters of a frozen Antarctic lake, perhaps it can survive on moons like Europa or Enceladus or some other extreme environment in the […]

Turning certain brain cells on and off with light — a technique called optogenetics — is one of the most important tools in neuroscience. It allows scientists to test basic […]

Un estudio, liderado por el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, ha descubierto una alta incidencia de anomalías congénitas en vértebras cervicales halladas en la cueva de El Sidrón (Asturias). Según […]

In the early 2000s, engineers at Volkswagen embarked on an audacious plan, one that seemed like it should have worked. The company had bet that their technical prowess in crafting […]