In an article just submitted to Physical Review Letters, a team of researchers from the Fermilab laboratory in Chicago, which houses one of the largest particle accelerators in the world, claims to be closer than ever to the discovery of a...
It was September 1991 when some German hikers were walking through the Ötzal Alps, on the border between Austria and Italy. At an altitude of 3,200 meters they were surprised by a lump on the ground. As they approached, they saw the small body of a man. …
A decade ago, 29 people gave their consent for a strange experiment: while they were undergoing brain surgery to cure their epilepsy, they would listen to the song 'Another Brick on the Wall' in the operating room. Part 1', by Pink Floyd. In addition, they are…
That today we have all the technology we have at our disposal is, in large part, its fault. Because Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli (Milan, Italy, 1947) radically transformed the way in which chips, those 'artificial brains', were built…
If the Sun were there, nights would not exist on Earth. Such is the stellar density in the globular cluster NGC 6652, a spectacular 'ball of stars' recently photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, that despite its veteran status in the…
An ancient ceramic water pipe system, the oldest ever discovered in China, shows that our Neolithic ancestors were capable of performing complex engineering feats without the need for a person of authority or a 'je…
A group of scientists has discovered water droplets trapped in mineral deposits that probably came from an ancient ocean that existed about 600 million years ago. Researchers from the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) and the University…
A team of researchers from the Fermilab laboratory in Chicago, which houses one of the largest particle accelerators in the world, believes they are closer than ever to the discovery of a new force, the fifth, of nature. In an article r…
The truth is that the obsession with straightening clothes is not new, it comes from afar. Already in ancient Greece, rollers were used to tighten clothes, since dressing without wrinkles was considered a sign of refinement. Later the Romans used…
James Webb never ceases to surprise with his cosmic snapshots. The last one has revealed a big little surprise in a still life made up of dozens of galaxies along with an ephemeral nebula in the foreground. By zooming in on the plane, a…
