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…
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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…
For the first time, we may have detected the core of a gas giant.
How did we only just figure this out?
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…