Our body is made up of a complex community of trillions of cells, of different shapes and sizes, that all work together to keep us healthy and alive. The smallest ones, such as platelets or red blood cells, are literally…
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To a large extent, the evolution of the Universe is governed by the 'tug of war' of two forces that are in eternal competition: dark energy, which forces the entire cosmos to expand; and gravity, which strives to hold matter together. According to …
On October 9, 2022, a sudden and powerful gamma ray burst (GRB) suddenly illuminated our Solar System. Before getting here, the light from that event was probably the result of the violent explosion of a star…
Sometimes, paleoanthropology's greatest treasures aren't found in excavations or at sites, but wait their turn to see the light, hidden in the drawers of a museum's storage room. This is the case of hominid remains recovered from…
More and more women are traveling to Spain for treatment due to the high cost of egg freezing in their countries of origin.
Neptune is visible from Earth once a year. The blue planet is one of the farthest from ours, so the day it's visible is a special event for astronomy lovers. An astronomical opposition occurs when a planet…
A study shows that in the last five centuries 73 complete branches of the evolutionary tree have disappeared
An unusually well-preserved dinosaur skeleton, a Camptosaurus known as Barry dating from the late Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago, will be auctioned in Paris next month, Reuters reports. The dinosaur, discovered in the…
Jupiter's four largest moons are, in addition to being large, some of the most attractive worlds in the Solar System. There's Io, dotted with more than 400 active volcanoes, or Europa, with its gigantic subterranean ocean that many believe hides...
Lo llamaban ‘el destructor de ciudades’. Y no porque se supiera a ciencia cierta que iba a chocar con la Tierra, sino porque su tamaño y composición son suficientes, en caso de impacto, para arrasar por completo una gran área metropolitana . Algo que, …