¿Qué es sabroso, abundante y alto en proteína? ¡Los insectos! Aunque menos común fuera de los trópicos, la entomofagia, la práctica de comer insectos fue alguna vez de lo más extendida en las culturas. Puede que sientas repulsión al masticar insectos, pero alimentan a cerca de 2000 millones de personas al día (mmh, tarántulas fritas). […]
French businesses are betting on insects as food. We explore the off-limit foods that might soon be on our plates.
Agencia SINC Por primera vez, un estudio aporta evidencias de que, además de la comunicación mediante señales químicas, los osos pardos, Ursus arctos, realizan señales visuales arrancando la corteza de ciertos árboles para comunicarse. Esta investigación, liderada por el Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN) y en la que participan Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD) y el Instituto […]
Our underwater forests are largely unobserved, but now they are vanishing. To understand why, scientists dive underwater and look down from space–and their research reveals a complex system at risk of collapse.
Trees talk and share resources right under our feet, using a fungal network nicknamed the Wood Wide Web. Some plants use the system to support their offspring, while others hijack it to sabotage their rivals.
Card: How might the universe end? Michio Kaku: Well, when we try to look at the whole universe itself — many people ask the question, «Well Professor, how do you know — how do you know that the universe is expanding? How do you know that it came from a big bang? How can you […]
Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. The Turing Award-winning computer scientist pioneered the field of distributed systems, where multiple components on different networks coordinate to achieve a common objective. (Internet searches, cloud computing and artificial intelligence all involve orchestrating legions of powerful computing machines to work together.) In the early 1980s, Lamport […]
Deep in the Amazon jungle, a parasitic fungus called cordyceps infect ants and other insects in order to reproduce. Mind control fungus.
Cockatoos have been documented using multiple tools to retrieve cashew nuts stored away inside a box. This ability to transport and use toolsets has only been previously reported in chimpanzees, our closest relatives. The researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria, captured this footage, displaying the technical cognition and decision making of cockatoos.
Agencia SINC Las cacatúas de las Islas Tanimbar (Indonesia), unos pequeños loros blancos también conocidos como cacatúas goffinianas, han pasado a engrosar la corta lista de animales capaces de manipular más de un objeto para obtener alimento. Según un estudio publicado por la revista Current Biology, estas aves pueden maniobrar con distintos materiales cuando lo necesitan, una […]
If we could fully map the inner workings of our brain, we could understand disease, consciousness, and what it is that makes us human. Only catch? There are more connections in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way. So, how close are we to fully mapping the brain?
As long as people have been alive, they’ve wanted to stay alive. But unlike finding the fountain of youth or becoming a vampire, uploading your brain to a computer or the cloud might actually be possible. Theoretically, we already know how to do it, and Elon Musk is even trying a brain implant with Neuralink. […]
Tal día como hoy en 1828, nacía Julio Verne. / Curro Oñate Agencia SINC Jules Gabriel Verne nació el 8 de febrero de 1828 en Nantes, Francia. Escritor, dramaturgo y poeta es el segundo autor más traducido en el mundo, después de Agatha Christie. Además, sus obras han tenido un profundo calado en el género de la […]
In an interview, WSJ’s Joanna Stern spoke with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about the new tools and how AI is going to change search. (Oh, and Clippy!) Tech Things With Joanna Stern Everything is now a tech thing. In creative and humorous videos, WSJ senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern explains and reviews the products, […]
