Inside a building we seem safe from the air polluted by car exhaust pipes, but this seemingly cleaner air actually claims more lives than the air outside: it is estimated that around 4 die each year. 3 million people because of it , when poor air quality in cities kills 3.7 million. The reason for … Read more
A recent study suggests that later mothers may have smarter children because they receive more care from them. The study, conducted in Sweden by experts from the Max Planck Institute for Democratic Research in Germany and the London School of Economics and Political Science, was carried out among 1.5 million Swedes born between 1960 and … 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 last Waiwai Indians lived in a remote tropical forest bordering Brazil. The few who had not yet decided to move to cities or government-sponsored camps retained a knowledge of cosmology comparable to that of the inhabitants of the pre-scientific West: both the movements of the planets and the cycles of the seasons had a … Read more
Graffiti is not confined to the walls of big cities, almost always appealing to absurd nicknames or lapidary phrases of dubious taste. They were also found inside Apollo 11, created by astronauts who traveled to the Moon in July 1969. The Smithsonian Museum in the United States made available to the public a 3D scan … Read more
The objective of the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) mission is to create a super-secure communications network that potentially links people anywhere in the world and, for this, China is going to launch the world’s first satellite designed to conduct experiments. quantum . The 600-kg-mass spacecraft is the latest in a series of science … Read more
Francis Bacon , despite not considering himself a scientist, was one of the fathers of modern science for his way of approaching the problem of how to accumulate verifiable knowledge. In one of his lesser-known books, however, he tells the made-up story in which some sailors arrive at an unknown island in the Pacific Ocean: … Read more
We all have some basic notions of how to get from one place to another as quickly as possible while walking through a normal city. In the first place, if we must cross a square, we will do it diagonally , instead of going down the sides. Second, if we have to save a block … Read more
You put a plate of broccoli on a child and the least they will express is a loud "yuck." Aware of this, Dr Lucy Cooke , with colleagues from University College London, has tackled various techniques to introduce healthy food to the tastes of infants and young children. Among them is Bocados Tiny (Tiny Tastes), … Read more
In an ancient region of the surface of the Red Planet, Arabia Terra, extensive systems of fossilized river beds have been detected, which reinforces the thesis of the existence of a hot and humid environment billions of years ago (and NASA has also determined that Mars had an ocean about 4.5 billion years ago that … Read more
As if it were the Hogwarts Express , that train in the Harry Potter universe in which we can travel to another world, the Solar Express is another train that aspires to travel at a speed of 3,000 kilometers per second. Which, in theory, would allow us to reach Mars in just 37 hours . … Read more
Working for money was something like prostitution . Without a basic income and a life of free time it was impossible, in Aristotle’s view, to enjoy the highest pleasures that philosophy and music provided. However, for now we have to work to pay bills. A new study would suggest, however, that cannabis use would discourage … Read more
Cities are highly polluted, and the so-called fine particles are especially worrisome, which have been linked to very diverse health problems: from cognition problems at school to the increased risk of autism. There is increasing scientific evidence of the harmful effects of pollution on our brain, and the latest is that which associates pollution with … Read more
The international science competition organized by the Royal Photographic Society of the United Kingdom has produced an amazing collection of photographs covering various aspects of science, from medicine and zoology to engineering and astronomy. Amateur and professional photographers could participate in the contest, in three age categories: up to 17 years old, from 18 to … Read more
A new finding published in the journal Nature Genetics suggests that the effects on blood pressure of certain genes is greater (twice) than that observed in previously discovered genes, that is, that hypertension is strongly caused by DNA and, Knowing it in advance will allow us to prevent it more effectively. Of the 31 new … Read more
A certain chapter of the Modern Family series consumes a total amount of electricity that is not the same as, for example, a certain chapter of Game of Thrones . And even between different chapters of the same series, such as The IT Crowd or Sherlock , we can find disparate consumptions . These are … Read more
There are foot fetishists, who prefer to have their earlobe licked, or to have their neck gently nibbled. There are even those who rejoice at a caress on the back. However, there are some parts of the body that are mostly more erogenous than others . At least according to what a survey reveals that, … Read more
There was once an extremely simple creature such as the slime mold ( Dictyostelium discoideum ) that puzzled scientists for a long time and whose behavior only began to be deciphered when the barriers that separate the different disciplines were broken until Molecular Biology and Physics they shook hands, and also embryology, mathematics and computer … Read more
When Will Smith asked a robot in the movie I, Robot, "Can a robot write a symphony or turn a canvas into a beautiful work of art?", The reply he received from the robot was: "Can you do it? you do?". An answer that can be more and more forceful taking into account what they … Read more
The video is taken during this year’s Oregon Star Party , the night the Perseids reached their peak. Six minutes of video captured at a spectacular 4,000,000 ISO . The range of sensitivities that smartphones make available to us usually oscillate between 50 or 100 and 3,200 ISO, while cameras usually go to the range … Read more
September 28 marked the 127th anniversary of the First General Conference on Weights and Measures , which served to define the meter as the distance between two lines in a platinum and iridium bar, although previously, in the French Revolution of 1789, Scientific Commissions have already been appointed to standardize weights and measures, including length. … Read more
One of the best hospitals of the 19th century was the Allgemeine Krankenhaus , or Vienna General Hospital . However, despite having the latest resources and personnel, of the 20,000 births that were attended between 1841 and 1846, almost 2,000 mothers died, that is, 1 in 10. For comparison purposes, let us remember that in … Read more
Although we’ve never thought about it, we could be wasting up to 200 liters of water downloading a single gigabyte (GB) of data , according to data from a new study by researchers at Imperial College London. Which yields spectacular water consumption figures if we consider that, in 2015 alone, the average spend on smartphones … Read more
In 2016, the temperature of the Earth will exceed the average of the pre-industrial era (15ºC) by 1.25ºC, which means that the global temperature on the planet’s surface has reached the highest point in the last 115,000 years, according to a recent study James Hansen, NASA, and other eleven experts for Earth-Systems Dynamics Journal . … Read more