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…
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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…
The Earth rotates around the Sun, describing an elliptical orbit of 930 million kilometers, at an average speed of 107,280 kilometers per hour.
However, this translation speed varies, increasing until it is maximum in the...
Researchers have shown that embryos and reproductive adults are more susceptible to ocean warming, so fish would be at much greater risk from climate change than previously thought...
According to new research published online in the journal Particle and Fiber Toxicology, led by researchers at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, fireworks damage human cells…
A penumbral lunar eclipse, which will be visible in much of the world, including Spain, will take place this Sunday, July 4, 2020.
It will take place at 3:07 UTC (5:07 Spanish peninsular time) and will be visible in Africa, south…
The happiness curve can make the memory-oriented regions of your brain function worse, according to a new study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
One in eight deaths in England is...
The true coloration of insects from 99 million years ago has been exposed thanks to a research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS).
The colors…