La soledad en tiempos de COVID-19
MEC. Gisela Aguilar Martínez Debido a su creciente impacto en las sociedades desarrolladas y en vías de garantizar una mejor compresión de un fenómeno que cada día afecta a más personas en el mundo, la soledad se presenta como un objeto de estudio al que progresivamente se le viene prestando una mayor atención en los […]
How The Immune System ACTUALLY Works – IMMUNE
The human immune system is the most complex biological system we know, after the human brain, and yet, most of us never learn how it works. Or what it is. Your immune System consists of hundreds of tiny and two large organs, it has its own transport network spread throughout your body. Every day it […]
This is Sparta: Fierce warriors of the ancient world – Craig Zimmer
In ancient Greece, violent internal conflict between border neighbors and war with foreign invaders was a way of life, and Greeks were considered premier warriors. Sparta, specifically, had an army of the most feared warriors in the ancient world. What were they doing to produce such fierce soldiers? Craig Zimmer shares some of the lessons […]
How Magellan circumnavigated the globe – Ewandro Magalhaes
On September 6, 1522, the «Victoria» sailed into harbor in southern Spain. The battered vessel and its 18 sailors were all that remained of a fleet that had departed three years before. Yet her voyage was considered a success, for the «Victoria» had achieved something unprecedented – the first circumnavigation of the globe. Ewandro Magalhaes […]
Las jirafas son socialmente tan complejas como los elefantes
Agencia SINC Hasta hace unos 20 años se pensaba que las jirafas (Giraffa camelopardalis) eran animales solitarios que no llegaban a establecer lazos fuertes con sus congéneres, lo que sí se había demostrado para otros grandes mamíferos, como los elefantes. En un estudio publicado en la revista Mammal Review, el equipo de la bióloga Zoe Muller de la Universidad […]
Así sienten peces, cangrejos y pulpos antes de llegar al plato
Sergio Guinaldo Durante los últimos 30 años, la pesca de animales acuáticos se ha mantenido estable —en términos de producción—, pero su cría en piscifactorías ha crecido a un ritmo medio del 5,3 % anual desde que comenzó el siglo XXI. Así, se estima que, de los 179 millones peces, moluscos, y crustáceos que fueron capturados en 2018, más […]
The Arctic vs. the Antarctic – Camille Seaman
How can you tell the two poles apart? Where are the penguins? What about the bears? The Arctic pole is located in the Northern Hemisphere within the deep Arctic Ocean, while the Antarctic pole is smack in the middle of the ice-covered Antarctica. Camille Seaman describes how enterprising people and organisms have found ways to […]
Cómo aprenden las ardillas a saltar de rama en rama sin caerse
Adeline Marcos Estos roedores se desplazan a gran velocidad entre las ramas de los árboles, con una destreza que les ayuda a no cometer errores y no caer desde lo alto. Pero la tarea no es fácil porque las ramas se curvan en todas las direcciones, y pueden ser muy finas y doblarse debajo de las ardillas cuando intentan […]
Exploring other dimensions – Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan
Imagine a two-dimensional world — you, your friends, everything is 2D. In his 1884 novella, Edwin Abbott invented this world and called it Flatland. Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan take the premise of Flatland one dimension further, imploring us to consider how we would see dimensions different from our own and why the exploration just […]
Un exoplaneta rocoso con la mitad de la masa de Venus
Agencia SINC Un equipo de astrónomos ha utilizado el Very Large Telescope (VLT) que tiene el Observatorio Europeo Austral (ESO) en Chile para arrojar nueva luz sobre los al menos cuatro planetas (b, c, d y e) que hay alrededor de una estrella cercana, L 98-59, similares a los de la zona interior de nuestro sistema solar. El […]
Black Holes 101 | National Geographic
At the center of our galaxy, a supermassive black hole churns. Learn about the types of black holes, how they form, and how scientists discovered these invisible, yet extraordinary objects in our universe.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains The Billionaire Space Race
Bezos? Branson? Elon Musk? On this explainer, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice break down why all these billionaires are going to space. What does “first commercial space flight” even mean?
AlphaFold Protein Structure Database
With EMBL-EBI, we’re proud to launch the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, which offers the most complete and accurate picture of the human proteome, doubling humanity’s accumulated knowledge of high-accuracy human protein structures – for free. Try it today: dpmd.ai/alphafolddbSHOW LESS
How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes
Both the itch.io and Steam releases contain a ROM file for use on NES emulators and are thereby playable on many different platforms!