A new company, Space Perspective, has announced its plan to introduce a commercial spacecraft that can take you to the stratosphere. In reality, the "ship" is a hot air balloon.
For just $125,000, anyone could...
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The first interplanetary exploration by an Arab nation is about to launch.
On July 14, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will launch the Mars Hope probe from Japan, from the Tanegashima Space Center. It is…
We value kindness above any other value. When psychologists grouped values into ten categories and asked people what was most important, kindness came out on top, trumping hedonism, an emotional life…
A tool that analyzes tweets and a study by researchers at the University of Chicago suggests that we are living in historically unhappy times.
The researchers described the two weeks after the 26th of…
According to data collected between 2015 and 2018 as part of the Play Spaces and Environments for Children's Physical Activity (PLAYCE) study, in a study published in the journal Pediatric Research, young children from homes with pet…
An army of tiny organisms that cannot be seen with the naked eye, made up of bacteria, fungi, viruses, protozoa and microscopic algae, is still present in our world, dominates our lives, can outnumber us and even outnumber us...
Anti-vaccines do not believe in science, or rather: they do not believe in scientists, much less in multinationals. It is not enough to throw data or scientific evidence in their faces.
What seems most effective is that the…
Like a Harry Potter spell, there are four foundational words, four terms that serve as master pillars on which all modern science has been built: “fact,” “evidence,” “hypothesis,” and “theory.”
Many of…
It is not the first time that we have highlighted the solvency of Carl Zimmer in Xataka Ciencia, we already did it with Parasites. Zimmer Carl Zimmer is a popular science popularizer who has already published more than a dozen books on bio…
All our operational decisions in life are based on discrimination, on shortcuts, on heuristics. If it were not so, we simply could not barely move, we could not live.
Given that there is a huge amount of…