Robar tu identidad para comprar un arma u obtener tus datos bancarios para "hackear" tu cuenta, son algunas de amenazas de la ciberdelincuencia en Internet, donde organizaciones criminales intentan atacar tanto a usuarios como a empresas.La entrada La ciberdelincuencia hace de Internet un...

Investigadores de la Universidad de Glasgow han desarrollado un método simplificado para crear imágenes 3D. Los científicos han utilizado únicamente un proyector convencional para iluminar el objeto, cuatro pequeños detectores de luz de un solo píxel, que permiten ver la escena iluminada desde...

La única científica española de la clonación explica cómo su equipo ha logrado algo que muchos intentaron desde el nacimiento de la oveja 'Dolly' en 1996 ||| Fuente : http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/materia/noticias/~3...

Internet celebra hoy su Día Internacional con el reto de reducir la brecha digital que aún afecta a 4.500 millones de personas, lo que significa que dos tercios de la población mundial no tienen todavía acceso a la mayor fuente de información y de datos del mundo. La entrada La brecha digital aún afecta a dos tercios de la...

En el hipotético caso de que hubiera elecciones para designar a un presidente mundial para internet, los latinoamericanos votarían mayormente en blanco o dispersarían su voto entre varios candidatos posibles, según una encuesta privada difundida hoy. La entrada Los internautas latinoamericanos no quieren que los gobiernen en la...

El publicista y comunicador Gustavo Entrala, creador de la cuenta oficial del Papa en Twitter, ha considerado hoy que las empresas e instituciones deben adaptarse a los nuevos tiempos y aprovechar las redes sociales para escuchar y adecuar sus productos a las necesidades de la gente.La entrada Gustavo Entrala: Es tiempo de que...

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have found that incorporating a peer-referral program for HIV testing into emergency departments can reach new groups of high-risk patients and brings more patients into the health care system for testing. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/uoc...

Illinois anthropology professor Kathryn Clancy and her research team at the Laboratory for Evolutionary Endocrinology showed that a woman's reproductive function may be tied to her immune system's status. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/uoi...

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM measured Cyclone Mahasen's rainfall rates from space as it made landfall on May 16. Mahasen has since dissipated over eastern India. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/nsf...

The first tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season was short-lived. Satellite imagery revealed that Tropical Storm Alvin became a remnant low pressure area 36 hours after it was named. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/nsf...

In the May issue of Applications in Plant Sciences, researchers introduce Visikol, a proprietary new formulation that effectively clears organisms for viewing under microscopes. Visikol can replace chloral hydrate, which was previously one of the few high-quality clearing solutions but which is regulated by the DEA due to its...

Working with lab mice models of multiple sclerosis (MS), UC Davis scientists have detected a novel molecular target for the design of drugs that could be safer and more effective than current FDA-approved medications against MS. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/uoc...

Many women in Texas who are found to have an abnormality on routine mammogram or discover a lump in one of their breasts end up having an old-fashioned surgical biopsy to find out whether the breast abnormality is malignant. Since 2001, national expert panels have recommended that the first course of action for women with...

Shelley Haydel, a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute has a new approach to developing effective, topical antibacterial agents -- one that draws on a naturally occurring substance recognized since antiquity for its medicinal properties: clay. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/asu...

On 5:24 a.m. EDT on May 17, 2013, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later and affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground. Fuente :...

Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns can lead to declines in southeastern frog and salamander populations, but protecting ponds can improve their plight. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/usg...

New experiments reveal previously unseen effects, could lead to new kinds of electronics and optical devices. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/H...

The distortion of the ancient shoreline and flooding surface of the US Atlantic Coastal Plain are the direct result of fluctuations in topography in the region and could have implications on understanding long-term climate change, according to a new study. Fuente :...

Una bióloga boliviana que defiende la vida silvestre en el Gran Chaco de América del Sur, y un antropólogo que documenta con artefactos la inmigración indocumentada en el sur de Estados Unidos, fueron designados hoy como dos de los diecisiete Exploradores Emergentes de 2013 por la revista National...

Internet celebrará mañana su Día Internacional con el reto de reducir la brecha digital que aún afecta a 4.500 millones de personas, lo que significa que dos tercios de la población mundial no tienen todavía acceso a la mayor fuente de información y de datos del mundo.La entrada La brecha digital...

NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/m...

A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's most important frontiers in climate studies: the imbalance in Earth's energy budget and the extent to which fast-changing phenomena, like clouds, contribute to that imbalance. Fuente :...

Johnny Cash may have preferred this galaxy's burning ring of fire to the one he sang about falling into in his popular song. The "starburst ring" seen at center of a new image in red and yellow hues is not the product of love, as in the song, but is instead a frenetic region of star formation. The...

A new window into the nature of the universe may be possible with a device proposed by scientists that would detect elusive gravity waves from the other end of the cosmos. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/J...

If you're a left-brain thinker, chances are you use your right hand to hold your cell phone up to your right ear, according to a newly published study. The study shows a strong correlation between brain dominance and the ear used to listen to a cell phone. Fuente :...

Whether we're listening to Bach or the blues, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel, according to new research. For instance, Mozart's jaunty Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major is most often associated with bright yellow and orange, whereas his...

Pese a que ya se han perforado un millón de pozos para extraer gas no convencional, los científicos reconocen la dificultad para evaluar sus peligros ||| Fuente : http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/materia/noticias/~3...

Investigadores españoles han resaltado que el equipo de Oregón ha logrado solventar los problemas técnicos que impedían la clonación por transferencia nuclear de células madre embrionarias en humanos, pero lo verdaderamente importante es lo que viene ahora, la puerta que se abre a futuras terapias...

When a doctoral student and her advisor went north not long ago to study how long-term warming in the Arctic affects carbon storage, they had made certain assumptions. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/q...