Science

You arrive at the office after getting up at the crack of dawn, sitting through two traffic jams, and still half asleep. On your...

Since ancient times, human beings have gazed at the stars and dreamed of travelling in space, and incredible advances have been made in this...

Game Theory is a field of applied mathematics that formally and abstractly studies the optimal decisions that adversaries should make when they are faced...

Vitamin A (also known as retinol) was discovered in 1913 when researchers varied the diet of certain laboratory animals (replacing lard with butter) and discovered that...

When you looked at the cover image for this post, you probably found it hard to avoid the common and contagious action of yawning....

Years ago, popular wisdom said that we had a finite number of neurons. In other words, any accident or problem (such as drinking alcohol...

3D printing offers extensive possibilities in medicine. The latest revolution proposed by researchers in the United States and China could forever change how we study...

Growing plants in space is one of the challenges of exploration promoted by agencies such as NASA. If they can manage to overcome these...

For quite some time, nanotechnology and medicine have been advancing hand in hand towards the goal of taking better care of our health. Biosensors...

The operation was done at  the University Medical Center (UMC) in  Utrecht, the Netherlands, and was actually performed almost three months ago, but the...

It may sound like science fiction, but 3D printers are finding their way into the field of healthcare, and more specifically, transplants. In this...

The vibration properties of a material depend on its physical characteristics and its placement in space. This aspect is taken into account for buildings,...

One of the things that we should do, but often forget to do, is turn off our mobile phones when we are at a...

The moon has a series of resources that are extremely valuable for the most important economic vectors on Earth right now. Despite the fact...

The information highways that exist in our brains are made up of millions of interconnected neurons that are organised around very precise neuronal circuits to...

The human body on the whole is fascinating, but if there is one part that is even more interesting, it’s the brain. This is...

Neurotechnology is the discipline that combines advances in microelectronics with applications to medicine. Any brain-computer interface is considered to fall within the scope of this...

A team of researchers in South Korea has produced successful results in their tests of a new method to fight cancer. The method is...

In western countries, it’s estimated that close to seven million people suffer from blindness or vision problems as a result of different diseases or...

Biotechnology is one of the most promising scientific disciplines of this century. Considered by the European Union as one of the “key technologies” to...

For years, science has known that microorganisms live in every corner of the world. Their incredible resistance to conditions that would be extreme for...

The year was 1964 and a very young theoretical physicist by the name of Peter Higgs was frustrated to see Physics Letters magazine reject...