La teoría sobre el universo que Stephen Hawking dejó antes de morir
Agencia SINC La teoría final del profesor Stephen Hawking sobre el origen del universo, en la que trabajó en colaboración con el profesor Thomas Hertog de la universidad KU Leuven (Bélgica), se ha publicado esta semana en el Journal of High Energy Physics. El estudio, enviado para su publicación antes de la muerte de Hawking a principios de […]
Dieta Detox, método para desintoxicar al cuerpo
MEC Gisela Aguilar Martínez En los tiempos modernos, es muy normal hablar sobre la dieta detox y sus beneficios, pero, ¿en qué consiste?. El término detox se enfoca al proceso en el que alguien se abstiene o elimina de su cuerpo sustancias tóxicas o poco saludables. No es algo nuevo ni mucho menos, ya que […]
Does My Dog Know What I’m Thinking?
Do you ever talk to your dog? Do they ever talk back? Humans and dogs have a truly amazing relationship, developed along an evolutionary journey that goes back nearly 10,000 years. Do they really understand what we say, think, and feel? Recent research suggests dogs know more about our language and emotions than you might […]
Why Do You Love Your Family?
Why do we love people we’re related to? Compared to strangers, why do we feel such a deep sense of connection with our family members? Sure, they’re nice to us, we take care of each other, and we often live with them, but there has to be a deeper biological reason. That reason, unsurprisingly is […]
History’s Most Powerful Plants
Fossil fuels are made from the remains of extinct organisms that have been exposed to millions of years of heat and pressure. But in the case of coal, these organisms consisted largely of some downright bizarre plants that once covered the Earth, from Colorado to China.
Black Hole Swarms | Space Time
It’s been conjectured that the center of the Milky Way is swarming with tens of thousands of black holes. And now we’ve actually seen them.
From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
The first era of our current eon, the Paleozoic Era, is probably the most deceptively fascinating time in Earth’s history. With near constant revolutions in life, punctuated by catastrophic extinctions, it is also one of the most chaotic. Correction! At 9:19, we erroneously refer to Dimetrodon as an herbivore. It was definitely a carnivore. We […]
The ferocious predatory dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara – Nizar Ibrahim
In Cretaceous times (around 100 million years ago), North Africa was home to a huge river system and a bizarre menagerie of giant prehistoric predators — including the Spinosaurus, a dinosaur even more fearsome than the Tyrannosaurus rex. Nizar Ibrahim uses paleontological and geological data to reconstruct this “River of Giants” in surprising detail. Lesson […]
Why the insect brain is so incredible – Anna Stöckl
The human brain is one of the most sophisticated organs in the world, a supercomputer made of billions of neurons that control all of our senses, thoughts, and actions. But there was something Charles Darwin found even more impressive: the brain of an ant, which he called “one of the most marvelous atoms of matter […]
La industria tabacalera conocía las claves científicas de la adicción
Agencia SINC La industria tabacalera es consciente desde 1960 de la adicción que la nicotina provoca en el consumidor. Sin embargo, no fue hasta el año 2000, tras décadas de negación pública, cuando la compañía Philip Morris admitió que esta sustancia es uno de los principales factores causantes de la dependencia de los fumadores, tal […]