In 1972, the Edelweiss Speleological Group, a pioneer in discovering the first remains in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos), discovered a sealed gallery near the famous Cueva Mayor, likely the result of a natural collapse some 3,000 years ago. That event…
SpaceX is preparing a new launch of its Starship super rocket, but the unknown Chinese company LandSpace has beaten it to the punch and has put into orbit a space shuttle powered by methane in all its stages.
Led by Thomas Gernon, professor of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Southampton in Britain, an international team of researchers has just discovered a way in which diamonds, which form at great depths…
The study of the genomes of ancestors offers clues for species conservation, which is generally linked to maintaining sufficient genetic variation among animal populations.
TomĂ s Baiget, cornered by complaints on social networks after the Luis Rubiales case, acknowledges that he uploaded images of the butts of at least two librarian colleagues to the internet
Quantum computers are promised to mark the beginning of a new technological era, in which processing vast amounts of data—a daunting task even for the best classical supercomputers today—will be a task that will be solved by…
In ancient times, the zero meridian was usually established coinciding with the last known land, beyond which there was only unexplored ocean.
The four Crew-7 astronauts traveling to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, called Endurance, have arrived at their destination after launching early Saturday morning, NASA reported. The…
An international team of paleontologists, including Spaniards MarĂa MartinĂłn-Torres and JosĂ© MarĂa BermĂşdez de Castro, have just described in the Journal of Human Evolution an ancient fossil skull, found in China, that bears no resemblance to that of any other…
The Indian space agency ISRO has released the first images of the Pragyan rover touching the lunar surface after descending from the Vikram lander of the Chandrayaan 3 mission. A short video posted by ISRO on its Instagram account shows…