Except for bacteria, surviving basically involves two processes that a creature made up of eukaryotic cells must undertake: either breathing or capturing sunlight.
Ironically, it is thanks to the metabolic innovations initiated…
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The unpredictable: Everything that technology wants and cannot control, the new book by Marta García Aller), reminds us that, although there are many attempts by technology to reduce the degree of uncertainty, the reality is in…
Richard Dawkins is one of the guests of honor at Xataka Ciencia. Among his books we find wonders such as The Selfish Gene, Unweaving the Rainbow or, perhaps the most combative of all, The God Delusion.
Dawkins, an admirer of…
The death of George Floyd occurred on Monday, May 25, 2020 in Powderhorn, Minneapolis, United States, as a result of his arrest by four police officers. In a few days, it generated a wave of protests throughout the country...
Powered by a magniX electric propulsion system, the eCaravan, the world's largest all-electric commercial aircraft, successfully completed its first half-hour test flight on May 28.
You can see it in action…
Where can we find more truths or, at least, truths of better quality? In the novels? In art? In your own or other people's feelings? In our conversations with others? Is science? In religion?
Without a doubt it is a…
Traces of the ancient presence of cannabis and incense have been found in an analysis of the material on two Iron Age altars discovered at the entrance to the 'sancta santorum' of a sanctuary in Tel Arad in the Beer-sh valley…
Heart transplants have always been problematic, mainly due to the absence of a completely reliable immunosuppressive drug to deal with the problem of stroke.
Everything changed in the mid-20th century, when a man…
Being right or left influences your opinions more than any other factor. Added to this is that now we must position ourselves, not only on the political spectrum, but also on the economic, social, and religious spectrum...
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Alan J. Jamieson, a scientist at the University of Newcastle, has published in Marine Biology that he has managed to overcome the identification of an octopus at a depth of 1,800 meters.
Specifically, two direct observations of the octopod ci…