Frans de Waal: Great Apes and the Gift of Empathy | Monologue | Topic
Biologist Frans de Waal studies the complex emotional life of apes – including how chimpanzees resolve conflicts. Here, de Waal discusses his subjects’ true capacity for fairness, reciprocity, and empathy, and how human beings measure up.
Light seconds, light years, light centuries: How to measure extreme distances – Yuan-Sen Ting
When we look at the sky, we have a flat, two-dimensional view. So how do astronomers figure the distances of stars and galaxies from Earth? Yuan-Sen Ting shows us how trigonometric parallaxes, standard candles and more help us determine the distance of objects several billion light years away from Earth. Lesson by Yuan-Sen Ting, animation […]
Descubierto un nuevo arrecife de coral en la Gran Barrera de Australia, el primero en 120 años
Agencia SINC Un investigador de la Universidad de Granada (UGR) colidera una campaña de investigación geológica y biológica que se está llevando a cabo en las aguas de la Gran Barrera de Arrecifes (GBA) de Australia, el mayor arrecife de coral del mundo, en la que participan geólogos, biólogos y ecólogos marinos de diferentes universidades y centros […]
How does the stock market work? – Oliver Elfenbaum
In the 1600s, the Dutch East India Company employed hundreds of ships to trade goods around the globe. In order to fund their voyages, the company turned to private citizens to invest money to support trips in exchange for a share of the profits. In doing so, they unknowingly invented the world’s first stock market. […]
Game Theory: The Science of Decision-Making
With up to ten years in prison at stake, will Wanda rat Fred out? Game theory is looking at human interactions through the lens of mathematics.
Durante la pandemia, la vista también se ve afectada
MEC. Gisela Aguilar Martínez La actual situación por la cual la sociedad está atravesando por el covid-19 ha aumentado el uso de dispositivos electrónicos, por ejemplo computadoras, tablets, televisores y teléfonos celulares, por ende los problemas de la vista han venido a mas, tal es el caso de la miopía. El hecho de que los […]
Moral behavior in animals | Frans de Waal
Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity — caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos of behavioral tests, on primates and other mammals, that show how many of these moral traits all of us share.
La luna Europa puede brillar en la oscuridad
José Luis Zafra La luna Europa, una de las 79 que tiene Júpiter, es uno de los objetos candidatos para albergar vida en el sistema solar, aparte de la Tierra. Este satélite contiene potencialmente un ambiente favorable para ello: un océano de agua líquida y salada debajo de su gélida corteza. Mientras simulaban en el laboratorio las condiciones de […]
Which type of milk is best for you? – Jonathan J. O’Sullivan & Grace E. Cunningham
Dive into the most popular milks— dairy, almond, soy and oat— to find out which is healthiest for you and for the planet.
El hallazgo de un anfibio fósil en ámbar revela el primer vertebrado con lengua extensible
Agencia SINC A pesar de tener garras, escamas y colas parecidas a las de las lagartijas, los albanerpetóntidos –a menudo llamados “albis” para abreviar– eran anfibios y no reptiles. Pertenecieron a un linaje distinto al de las ranas, salamandras y cecilias actuales (sin patas y con forma de lombriz) y aparecieron hace al menos 165 millones de […]
How tall can a tree grow? – Valentin Hammoudi
What makes a tree grow tall? And do trees ever stop growing? Explore how photosynthesis and gravity can affect and limit the height of trees.
The secret language of trees – Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard
Learn how trees are able to communicate with each other through a vast root system and symbiotic fungi, called mycorrhizae.
What if there were 1 trillion more trees? – Jean-François Bastin
How can trees help in the fight against climate change? Dig into the efforts to rebuild damaged ecosystems and reduce carbon emissions.
The carbon cycle is key to understanding climate change | The Economist
Until a few hundred years ago there was a perfect balance of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere. Human activity has disrupted that balance. What can be done to restore it?