Categoría: Ciencia

Jorge Pedraza Salinas El cuatro de junio de 1969 –hace 45 años– se registró el mayor accidente aéreo en la historia de la región. Ese día, el moderno Boeing 727 de Mexicana de Aviación, con matricula XA-SEL, se estrelló y voló en pedazos en el tercer pico de «El Fraile», a sólo 23 kilómetros al […]

Plos One Blogs By Travis Saunders, Phd, MSc, CEP Today’s post comes from Dr Jennifer D Roberts.  You can find more on Jennifer at the bottom of this post. Physical inactivity, ambient air pollution and obesity are modifiable risk factors for non-communicable diseases, with the first accounting for more than three million annual deaths.  Recently, we identified […]

Luis Eugenio Todd Pan y circo, decían los romanos. Yo soy un aficionado el futbol y fui fundador de los Tigres de Primera División. Además de campeón con ellos en tres ocasiones, y siempre me he preguntado ¿por qué me gusta este deporte? Y he encontrado la siguiente respuesta que quiero compartir.

John S. Wilkins One of the problems that many people have with evolution is not religious, but philosophical. If evolution is true, they think, then we are at sea – nothing is fixed, nothing is determinate, all coherence is gone, as Donne famously lamented of the death of the two-sphere universe and physics. This is, […]

by Dave Munger  The TV show Lie To Me focuses on the exploits of an expert in lie-detection as he solves perplexing crimes in his high-tech Washington laboratory. It’s actually fun to watch, especially since it appears to make some effort to get the science right (a real-life expert on lie-detection, Paul Ekman, serves as a science adviser […]

By Orac I never used to write much about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) before. I still don’t do it that often. For whatever reason, it just hasn’t been on my radar very much. That seems to be changing, however. It’s not because I went seeking this issue out (although I must admit that I first became […]

Juan Roberto Zavala Con motivo de que en este mes de Mayo se cumplen 500 años de que el texto de 40 páginas  COMMENTARIOLUS  de Nicolás Copérnico, considerado el fundador de la astronomía moderna, fue registrado en la Biblioteca de Cracovia, Polonia, una de las más prestigiadas de la época, cambiando con él  la forma […]

Plos One Blogs By Tara Garnett We’ve all heard the story: dim-witted Neanderthals couldn’t quite keep up with our intelligent modern human ancestors, leading to their eventual downfall and disappearance from the world we know now. Apparently they needed more brain space for their eyes. The authors of a recent PLOS ONE paper are digging into the ideas behind this perception, […]

Plos One Blogs By Deborah Blum One day on Twitter, some science bloggers who began life on the dark side, in the humanities, happily discovered a shared taste for classic mystery writers.  We thought we might write a series of posts, all on the same day, about the science in mystery books and so we did […]

Plos One Blogs By neuroanth Editor’s Note: I’m excited to have this guest post from Rebecca Lester and Peter Benson, the new editors ofAnthropology of Consciousness. The direction they are taking the journal aligns well with the interdisiplinary approach of neuroanthropology, both synthetic and anthropological at once, and builds on decades of work in anthropology on […]

Lauren Landry– Associate Editor, BostInno «Conspiracy theories are for lazy people — people who don’t want to get down to the business at hand.» Bill Nye reminded graduating seniors from the University of Massachusetts Lowell on Saturday, «We are all part of the problem.» Although seemingly negative, television’s famed «Science Guy» shared the words to […]