Excess sugar consumption is a problem in the most developed countries. A single can of soda may already have half of all the daily sugar recommended for an adult.
The ironic thing is that if half a liter of soda can…
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The released gases could trigger an El Niño event during winter 2020-21, a more intense polar vortex and warming across Eurasia, according to a study carried out by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Sis...
Measurements of carbon dioxide, the main human-caused greenhouse gas, averaged up to 17% in April, a brief dip due to the coronavirus pandemic.
However, the world…
Happiness is not only difficult to record (it is also said that life is what happens when you get busy making other plans) or measure, but, above all, to predict.
In fact, various studies suggest that we are unable...
According to a recent study, the combination of genetic mixing and evolutionary selection of nearly identical genetic sequences between bat- and pangolin-specific coronaviruses may have led to the evolution of SARS-CoV-2.
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A new visualization allows users to experience 500 years of cosmic evolution around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A* thanks to the combination of data from the Chandra observatory and another…
In the wake of the protests over the death of George Floyd, many questions arise. The first: if we all tend towards racism (or rather classism, since we become inferior to any group by choosing a certain random trait...
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…
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…