Una hermosa aurora boreal ilumina el cielo sobre el paisaje nevado de Tromsø, Noruega. Fuente : http://www.esa.int/ESA_in_your_country/Spain/La_ac...

Un paseo por el espacioaproxima a todos los públicos los fundamentos de los ingenios y tecnologías espaciales, mostrando los beneficios que aportan a la calidad de vida de las personas. El libro e... Fuente : http://www.esa.int/ESA_in_your_country/Spain/Un_pa...

Las medidas de austeridad han afectado a la investigación en Europa, en particular en los países del sur. La revista Euroscientist, la primera revista europea para científicos hecha por científicos, publicada por Euroscience, pone el periodismo ciudadano al servicio de la comunidad científica....

Investigadores del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), en colaboración con la empresa española Innaves, han desarrollado el primer complemento alimenticio para reducir la hipertensión. El producto, denominado Lowpept, incluye péptidos antihipertensivos patentados por el CSIC y...

El Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente y el Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad han trasladado a la Comisión Europea los resultados de los análisis efectuados para determinar el alcance del fraude del ADN de caballo. Los resultados revelan un 4 % de ADN de...

Hace unos meses la prensa internacional se hizo eco de la resolución de un importante enunciado de la teoría de números, la llamada Conjetura abc. Sin embargo,nadie ha conseguido corroborar el resultado porque solo el autor maneja la maquinaria teórica con que lo logró y no quiere explicar el...

A los niños les encantan el azúcar y las grasas. O no. Una nueva investigación desmiente que todos los menores de diez años tengan el mismo gusto por los alimentos y destaca la importancia del país de residencia, la cultura y la edad en estas preferencias. Fuente : http://www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/Dime-de-donde-e...

Startup companies founded by physician entrepreneurs are an important source of patents used in developing innovative new medical devices, suggests a study in the May issue of Medical Care. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. Fuente :...

Sandia National Laboratories worked with the National Nuclear Security Administration's Kansas City Plant on the rapid design of an annealing process to soften stainless steel tubing. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/dnl...

Cyclone Imelda has lost both her punch and her hurricane status as the storm moved into an area of higher wind shear and cooler waters in the Southern Indian Ocean. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/nsf...

The most powerful batteries on the planet are only a few millimeters in size, yet they pack such a punch that a driver could use a cellphone powered by these batteries to jump-start a dead car battery -- and then recharge the phone in the blink of an eye. Developed by researchers at the University...

University of Missouri engineer Randy Curry and his team have developed a method of creating and controlling plasma that could revolutionize American energy generation and storage. However, Curry warns that without federal funding of basic research, America will lose the race to develop new plasma...

Three unusually long-lasting stellar explosions discovered by NASA's Swift satellite represent a previously unrecognized class of gamma-ray bursts. Two international teams of astronomers studying these events conclude that they likely arose from the catastrophic death of supergiant stars hundreds...

To tease out what happens at that boundary of the magnetosphere and to better understand how radiation and energy from the sun can cross it and move closer to Earth, NASA launches spacecraft into this region to observe the changing conditions. From 1998 to 2002, NASA's Wind spacecraft traveled...

A study published this week in the journal Cancer confirms the finding of low-testosterone in crizotinib patients, and for the first time details the mechanism of reduced testosterone, and provides promising preliminary evidence that widely available hormone replacement therapies can alleviate this...

Brain scans are increasingly able to reveal whether you believe you remember some person or event in your life. In a new study presented today, researchers used fMRI brain scans to detect whether a person recognized scenes from their own lives, as captured in some 45,000 images by digital cameras....

Chronic stress is known to cause major health problems, yet acute stress can be good for you. A new study by UC Berkeley professor Daniela Kaufer shows why. Stress generates new nerve cells in the brain that, two weeks later, help you learn better. Thus, unlike chronic stress, acute stress primes...

Researchers believe they have solved a puzzle that has long vexed science. The researchers provide the first three-dimensional model of an enzyme that links a simple sugar, glucose, into long-chain cellulose, the basic building block within plant cell walls that gives plants structure. Cellulose is nature's most abundant...

Using insights gained from studying two much rarer disorders, Down Syndrome and Niemann Pick-C disease, researchers found that cholesterol wreaks havoc on the orderly process of cell division, leading to defective daughter cells throughout the body. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/Y...

Projections of rainfall changes from global warming have been very uncertain because scientists could not determine how two different mechanisms will impact rainfall. The two mechanisms turn out to complement each other and together shape the spatial distribution of seasonal rainfall in the tropics, according to a new study....

New research fuels hope of efficient hydrogen production with green algae may be possible in the future, despite the prevailing scepticism based on previous research. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/w...

New training modules guide doctors on how to recognize ECG changes that indicate problems rather than healthy cardiac adaptation. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/A...

Investigators found that propranolol, a drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure, anxiety and panic, improves the working memory performance of individuals with autism spectrum disorders. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/p...

A brain-training task that increases the number of items an individual can remember over a short period of time may boost performance in other problem-solving tasks by enhancing communication between different brain areas. The new study is one of a growing number of experiments on how working-memory training can measurably...

New research reveals shifts in the mechanisms bats use to regulate metabolism throughout their seasonal activity period. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/2...

Researchers have found that it might be the information rather than the brain's decision-making process that is to blame. The researchers report that erroneous decisions tend to arise from errors, or "noise," in the information coming into the brain rather than errors in how the brain accumulates information. Fuente :...

A new innovation allows treadmill users to work their bodies and brains at the same time. The system, called ReadingMate, adjusts text on a monitor to counteract the bobbing motion of a runner's head so that the text appears still. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/_...

Un proyecto conjunto de las organizaciones SEO/BirdLife y Acció Ecologista-Agró trabaja en la conservación y mejora del humedal Tancat de la Pipa en La Albufera de Valencia. Fuente : http://www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/Como-evitar-que...

La Universidad de Barcelona lidera un trabajo que analiza el desarrollo de nuevos transportadores de aniones —iones de carga negativa— a través de membranas lipídicas. El hallazgo, publicado recientemente en Accounts of Chemical Research, establece que una mayor capacidad de transporte también...