Brachytherapy has a robust track record as a treatment for prostate cancer. The technique involves positioning radioactive materials inside the prostate to kill the tumour.
Adeline Marcos En los ecosistemas modernos, la mayoría de las especies son pequeñas porque necesitan menos energía para subsistir y dividir sus recursos. Esto permite una mayor diversidad que entre las especies más grandes ya que estas requieren una cantidad de alimentos mayor. Curiosamente, este patrón no fue produjo entre los dinosaurios no aviarios, sino todo lo contrario. “La […]
Agencia SINC Una investigación internacional publicada en Nature en la que participa el Grupo de Física Nuclear (GFN-UCM) de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y del Instituto IPARCOS de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) ha identificado cómo y cuándo se genera la rotación de los fragmentos resultantes de la división de un núcleo atómico durante el proceso de fisión. Durante […]
Though humans don’t experience it in their daily lives, gravity and movement can change how time elapses. Ultra-precise atomic clocks are now able to measure these tiny changes, known as time dilation. It’s a technological advance that could revolutionize our understanding of time.
Nothing in the Universe is static. In the milky way, billions of stars orbit the galactic center. Some, like our sun, are pretty consistent, keeping a distance of around 30,000 light years from the galactic center, completing an orbit every 230 million years. This dance is not an orderly ballet – more like a skating […]
The naked mole-rat may not be the most attractive rodent on the block, but it’s still a social butterfly. These hairless, mostly blind and deaf animals live in colonies of up to 300 individuals, which communicate with high-pitched squeaks. Now, researchers have discovered that, like humans and many birds, mole-rat communities have their own dialect, […]
Adeline Marcos Tanto la crisis del SARS-CoV-1 en 2003 en el sudeste asiático como la del MERS-CoV en 2012 en Oriente Medio tuvieron a los virus procedentes de civetas y dromedarios de protagonistas, respectivamente. En la actual pandemia de SARS-CoV-2 se sigue sin identificar el origen animal del virus, pero la comunidad científica tiene claro que este coronavirus se […]
After a seven-month-long journey, NASA’s Perseverance Rover successfully touched down on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California celebrate landing NASA’s fifth — and most ambitious — rover on Mars. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs […]
Animations for media and public use. NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will be the first aircraft to fly in a controlled way on another planet. As its own separate mission, the helicopter will hitch a ride to Mars attached to the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover (part of the Mars 2020 mission). This animation reel simulates […]
Enrique Sacristán 1 ¿Porqué están llegando tantas misiones a Marte? Porque salieron a la vez, aprovechando una “ventana” de lanzamiento que ocurre cada 26 meses en la que la distancia entre la Tierra y Marte es menor. Esto facilita las operaciones, permite ahorrar combustible y, por tanto, costes a la hora de mandar naves al […]
After nearly 300 million miles (470 million km), NASA’s Perseverance rover completes its journey to Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. But, to reach the surface of the Red Planet, it has to survive the harrowing final phase known as Entry, Descent, and Landing. Learn more: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020 Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechSHOW LESS
Agencia SINC Un equipo de investigadores liderado por la Universidad de Constanza, Alemania, en el que participa el Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), ha logrado secuenciar el genoma del pez pulmonado de Queensland, el más grande que se ha descifrado hasta la fecha. Gracias al análisis de este genoma, el trabajo, publicado en la revista Nature, confirma […]
For years, scientists have wanted to create flying robotic vehicles the size of insects. The tricky bit has been building something that can produce enough thrust while still being light enough to fly, without being tethered to an external power source. Now, a group of researchers have hit on a new design. At half the […]
