Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Hong Kong mogul Li Ka-shing are among the millionaire investors in Impossible Foods , a company founded by Stanford University biochemist Patrick O. Brown whose purpose is the creation of source foods. vegetable that have the same flavor as meat or equivalent dairy products, and thus be more environmentally friendly. … Read more
All kinds of correlations can be found around intelligent people, some more spurious than others. As the most intelligent people work mostly for another (less intelligent), the so-called law of Joy. Another compelling correlation is that tall people are more intelligent than short people . But can a factor like height really influence our brain … Read more
The human being finds many reasons to confront each other for years and with the aim of systematically annihilating the opposing side. The wars caused by religious reasons, for example, as well as those caused by irrational ideologies or nationalisms, although they are not always the longest and bloody, they do tend to be, according … Read more
The God of the holes refers, broadly, to the idea of God that many people forge to fill their gaps of ignorance . For example, I do not know how the universe originated or the reason for its existence, therefore the answer is God (however, that filling does not really explain anything, because we can … Read more
We are all susceptible to nonsense due to our brain’s own circuitry. The real problem is that, in groups, in droves, we are prone to believe even more irrational nonsense . Ideas that by ourselves we would never raise precisely because of their silly nature, but that in a group do not seem so much … Read more
Zika, whose vector is the Aedes aegypti mosquito, has spread throughout Brazil and the rest of Latin America, but is also reaching Europe. Until now, no child had been born with the microcephaly associated with the transmission of Zika by the mother: in Spain there are 91 cases of Zika, of which 21 were pregnant … Read more
Stray cats in a small fishing village south of the Japanese island of Kyushu used to develop tremors and uncoordinated movements after snooping around places where fish were unloaded. Some time later, this kind of San Vito dance began to occur also among human beings, together with loss of consciousness or delusional ideas. What was … Read more
An outbreak of anthrax, a disease known as anthrax and forgotten for almost a century , could be killing the first people. The reason this ancient bacterium reappears is that it remained frozen and, due to global warming and thawing, has revived. The first to die from this disease that was believed to be extinct … Read more
Questions like are we to pursue reason at the expense of emotion? they have begun to preoccupy philosophers and scientists in recent centuries. Or put another way: is our role model Spock, the ultra-nationalist character from Star Trek? Or should we look a little more at Homer Simpson? This reason VS emotion dichotomy refers to … Read more
The Russian Institute for Scientific Research for Occupational Medicine has developed a technology that allows dogs to breathe underwater, which may facilitate submarine crew rescue operations. The invention consists in allowing liquid respiration which facilitates filling the lungs with a special liquid rich in dissolved oxygen that penetrates the blood . In this way, the … Read more
300 million years ago , all the mainland was concentrated in a single continent, Pangea , which progressively separated. The cleavage of the mainland took a long time, and it did not begin to look as it does on a world map today until just 50 million years ago. However, this movement continues to occur, … Read more
Pet owners in the UK spent around $ 150 million on Christmas gifts for their pets in 2008. Or that in Japan there are almost 19 million pets (more than the number of children under 15 years of age): the industry dedicated to their care and comfort generates 8.8 billion dollars a year. There are … Read more
The complexity of ecosystems is so great that we cannot study them without stumbling into reductionism. Nor do we know what exactly happens in the set when we touch a piece, for example eliminating an animal species . Everything is connected to everything in a causal tangle so inextricable that a good example to begin … Read more
The Voyager Golden Disc: 40th Anniversary Edition is a copy of the golden discs that Voyager carries and that, after a kickstarter campaign , you can now get to decorate your home or listen to on your most melancholy days. The creators of this marvel are David Pescovitz of Boing Boing and Timothy Daly of … Read more
On some occasions, when temperatures drop very low, the waves may even freeze when they break against the shore. This phenomenon is much more impressive when it is contemplated, so you can do it in the following video. Specifically, these frozen waves have been recorded in the gigantic Lake Baikal , in southern Siberia, which … Read more
We are increasingly empathetic with animals , especially in the field of pets. However, the wealthiest people of the past have also had a close relationship with some animals . For example, the Maharaja Nawab Sir Mahbet Khan Rasul Khan had 800 dogs that were treated as true kings. The Roman Lucius Licinius Crassus cared … Read more
According to a study led by José María Gómez , from the University of Granada, who was looking for the roots of human violence, it is concluded that one in five meerkats dies at the hands of another meerkat, which makes this species probably the most violent with herself from the entire animal kingdom. The … Read more
The origins and reasons why we sometimes yawn are elusive. Sometimes we yawn because we are sleepy. Other times, because we get bored. There is also a certain contagion effect that forces us to yawn if we see someone bounce. A new study hypothesizes that if we start from the assumption that yawning serves to … Read more
A small Spanish fleet left the island of Cuba for Mexico on March 5, 1520. On these ships 900 Spanish soldiers were transported, along with horses, firearms and a handful of African slaves. But they also carried something invisible to the human eye . In one of the people, among its billions of cells, there … Read more
It is difficult to know what a baby of a few hours thinks about the taste of things, because we cannot ask them directly (and if we do, we will only receive some incomprehensible babble). However, we can get an idea by analyzing the face they make . This is what Israeli physician Jacob Steiner … Read more
The naked mole rat ( Heterocephalus glaber ) is immune to pain , at least immune enough to flinch if it nibbles on a chili pepper or the water in which it is submerged is too hot. Researchers at the Max-Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin have just published in Cell Reports a study … Read more
The Tasmanian devil or devil ( Sarcophilus harrisii ) is a species of marsupial that inhabits the island of Tasmania, and whose milk could be a definitive weapon in our fight against superbugs. According to a study by a team of researchers from the University of Sydney, published in Nature , this milk harbors antimicrobial … Read more
In ancient times, humans hunted mammoths and rabbits, but the former became extinct and the latter did not. Which is the reason? Basically it all comes down to a single factor: the speed of reproduction of both species . Mammoths had to reproduce at a rate of perhaps only two young a year, and mammoth … Read more
The HLA and not Cupid is what guides our love preferences when it comes to finding a partner. HLA is the acronym for human leukocyte antigen, that is, the immune system: because we are seduced by people who have an HLA very different from ours. That’s at least what a new study published in Nature … Read more