CILAC
  • ABOUT CILAC
    • What is CILAC?
    • Foro CILAC 2024
    • Foro CILAC 2021
    • CILAC Forum 2018
    • Foro CILAC 2016
  • CONTENTS
    • Colloquia
    • Documents and publications
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Women in science
    • Portal
    • Research network
  • NEWS
  • CONTACT
  • ES
All Posts By

Miguel Ángel Criado

Oct 04 2023
Love0

Half of amphibian species are in danger of extinction

By Miguel Ángel Criado Portal

A macro report reveals that, if we continue at this rate, two out of every three species could disappear in the coming years

Read More
Oct 03 2023
Love0

Homosexuality in mammals has evolutionary utility

By Miguel Ángel Criado Portal

A study shows that it is more common in social species and animals where there is lethal aggression between males, where it would function as an adaptive mechanism to reduce aggressiveness.

Read More
Oct 02 2023
Love0

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023 for Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for the covid vaccine

By Miguel Ángel Criado Portal

The Swedish Academy jury highlights that these “groundbreaking discoveries have fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system.”

Read More
Sep 27 2023
Love0

Esparto sandals found in a cave in Granada, the oldest footwear in Europe

By Miguel Ángel Criado Portal

Neolithic farmers made espadrilles 6,200 years ago with the same material that hunter-gatherers used for their baskets three millennia before.

Read More
Sep 25 2023
Love0

The enigmatic fairy circles emerge in hundreds of arid areas of the planet

By Miguel Ángel Criado Portal

Spanish researchers create a world atlas of this phenomenon in which the vegetation is organized forming circles

Read More
Sep 21 2023
Love0

Chinese researchers create mutant worms that make spider silk

By Miguel Ángel Criado Portal

Scientists introduce arachnid genes into silkworms to produce threads as strong as nylon and six times harder than Kevlar

Read More
Sep 19 2023
Love0

Google identifies millions of mutations in proteins capable of generating diseases

By Miguel Ángel Criado Portal

Science had only classified 2% of the variations detected until today thanks to DeepMind's artificial intelligence

Read More
Sep 05 2023
Love0

Herd movements show the complex society of the last wild horses

By Miguel Ángel Criado Portal

Przewalski's stallions group their harems to protect them from rivals and predators while females from the same group move together

Read More
Aug 30 2023
Love0

Seismographs record the tremors of the Ukraine war

By Miguel Ángel Criado Portal

A seismic network designed to detect nuclear tests thousands of kilometers away captures explosions in Ukrainian cities, be they bombs, missiles or cannon shots

Read More
Aug 26 2023
Love0

The thaw surprised the emperor penguin chicks: “The data suggests that they did not survive”

By Miguel Ángel Criado Portal

Four colonies in West Antarctica collapsed due to melting ice in 2022 before the hatchlings could escape alive.

Read More
1 2 3 … 16 Next

Recent news

  • 21 MAY | El rol de la ciencia para la toma de decisiones basada en conocimiento 16/05/2025
  • April 24 | CILAC Colloquium on Science Diplomacy 14/04/2025
  • The fourth edition of the CILAC Forum ends 06/12/2024
  • The successful CILAC 2024 Forum begins with more than 3,200 participants 02/12/2024
  • Colombia welcomes the CILAC Forum 2024 30/11/2024

2024, CILAC Forum. All rights reserved.

UNESCO Montevideo Office.

  • ABOUT CILAC
    • What is CILAC?
    • Foro CILAC 2024
    • Foro CILAC 2021
    • CILAC Forum 2018
    • Foro CILAC 2016
  • CONTENTS
    • Colloquia
    • Documents and publications
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Women in science
    • Portal
    • Research network
  • NEWS
  • CONTACT
  • ES