On September 21, 2018, Dutch technology company ASML unveiled a 258.19 square micrometer advertisement in Veldhoven, Netherlands.
It was engraved and printed on an electronic wafer and said: «To become very...
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We all have in mind a man with a nose as sharp as his tongue capable of seducing any woman with his verbiage when we think of Cyrano de Bergerac.
But this French poet, playwright and thinker, a contemporary of Boileau and…
Although we could have a resource problem or an environmental conflict, the truth is that the Earth is almost empty of humans: we could all fit comfortably on the Iberian Peninsula with a population density similar to…
A pale blue dot is a photograph of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 space probe from a distance of 6 billion kilometers. The image shows the Earth as a speck or point of light that is almost imperceptible due to the glare...
I think that, I think that, this is like this, this is like that, I am right, my ideology is... all of these are commonplaces not only in any bar conversation, but in debates.
However, the evidence is rarely talked about…
Radio waves travel poorly through water, making it difficult for divers or submersibles to transmit information wirelessly to the surface.
However, scientists are trying to change that by developing…
NASA's New Horizons mission has traveled so far that it now has a unique view of the nearest stars. So much so that he has sent us, for the first time, images of the sky from so far away that some stars seem to be...
In science fiction it is common for a person to pour all their thoughts, their consciousness, their Self, into a robot or a computer. That a machine simulates each and every one of the neural processes so that one goes from existing to...
Dating back to 13,000 years, a miniature bird figurine carved from a burnt bone has become the oldest known three-dimensional Chinese and East Asian work of art.
These works are the first examples…
Pere Estupinyà is already a regular on Xataka Ciencia. Here we have reviewed his The Brain Thief or S=EX2: The Science of Sex. As we couldn't do otherwise, now it's time for its latest novelty: Living Science: The Passions...