Todos conocemos el caso de la hibernación de los osos: con la llegada del invierno, estos yacen en sus cuevas, dormidos; su metabolismo se ralentiza, la temperatura corporal baja hasta el mínimo necesario para mantener activas las principales constante…
The James Webb Space Telescope has just captured a gigantic plume of water vapor on Enceladus, one of Saturn's most promising moons, spewing out of its subsurface ocean through icy cracks in the surface. According to researchers,…
The Sun is currently displaying a sunspot four times the size of Earth, which is visible from our planet. It's so large that it can be seen with the naked eye (provided you have the right equipment to look at our star directly).
For the vast majority of its history, life on Earth consisted solely of microorganisms. Single-celled bacteria and microbes that, for more than 3 billion years, dominated a rather dull, plant-free planet…
A team of researchers from several US universities has discovered a new species of dinosaur, Platythoulus clemensi, which had a headdress made of keratin, the material found in nails and hair.
A team of engineers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA) has been able to generate continuous electricity from nothing. Or rather, from thin air. Not only that: they demonstrate that any material can be converted into a good energy harvester.
When Francisco de Goya painted Saturn devouring his children in the early 19th century, he could not have imagined how premonitory his creation would be. The second largest planet in the Solar System, which shares its name with the Roman god of agriculture…
For the first time, NASA scientists have solid evidence of a polar cyclone on Uranus. By examining radio waves emitted by the ice giant, they detected the phenomenon at its north pole. The findings confirm a broad truth about all…
Uno de los mayores hitos en la historia humana es, sin duda, el control del fuego. La introducción y la rápida expansión de su uso, en efecto, marcó en nuestros antepasados una diferencia fundamental con el resto de los animales. Considerado como un im…
A finales de los 70, un grupo de científicos publicó en la revista ‘ International Journal of Biometeorology ‘ un curioso estudio en el que se comparaba la salud de dos destacamentos del ejército indio: el primero, formado por 130.700 hombres, se asent…
