Look at an old photo. Then look in the mirror. Those two images are of the same person, right? How so? They don’t look the same. Their memories are different. And virtually every atom in their bodies is different. We feel unity across time, but is this solidified sense of self an illusion? If not […]
Agencia SINC La miniaturización de la electrónica para producir robots del tamaño de un cabello es un objetivo codiciado por la ciencia, pero limitado por la ausencia de sistemas que actúen a escala micrométrica. Ahora, según publica la revista Nature, científicos de la Universidad de Pensilvania, en Filadelfia (EE UU) han logrado dotar de movimiento a un equipo de […]
Our universe seems fine-tuned for life, with the constants of physical laws having to be within tight boundaries. Does this mean that the #universe has a goal of #consciousness? Is there a directedness of the universe toward consciousness? Is consciousness entirely contingent or is it something special, even a ultimate object of universal development?
MEC Gisela Aguilar Martínez En la mayoría de los casos de deportistas, tanto del ámbito profesional como del amateur, la música juega un papel muy importante en una sesión de entrenamiento motivadora. Por ejemplo, en la mayoría de los gimnasios y/o instalaciones en las que se imparten clases deportivas del tipo que sea reproducen música […]
From Stargate to Interstellar, wormholes are our favorite method for traveling across fictional universes. But they are also a very serious field of study for some of our greatest minds over the last century. So what’s the holdup? When do we get to wormhole ourselves out of here?
What if every single black hole that formed in our universe sparked the big bang of a new universe? Cosmological natural selection proposes exactly this – but even better, it claims to be able to test the hypothesis.
China has officially started rolling out its new digital currency, and it’s got us thinking a lot about cash. More specifically, is a cashless society the new reality?
Agencia SINC Hace unos 8.000 años, algunos grupos de Turquía y de Irán ya elaboraban cobre fundido, es decir, que en las primeras aldeas había descubierto que por medio del fuego es posible extraer metales de las rocas. La metalurgia se considera una victoria del ser humano sobre la materia, un avance que Mercedes Murillo, investigadora del departamento de […]
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate […]
