Hoy en día, con la popularización de la fotografía digital y su vertiginoso avance en prestaciones técnicas a bajo costo, hacer fotos del firmamento está al alcance de casi cualquiera. Y lo mismo puede decirse del video. Debido a ello, presentar fotos o videos del cielo estrellado a un concurso......

Oilpulse es un proyecto financiado por la Unión Europea y desarrollado por la oficina española de Ateknea Solutions, con la colaboración de Aceites Malagón y otros 3 socios, la Universidad Técnica de Berlín, D’Addato Agroalimentare, y el fabricante de maquinaria oleícola Hakki Usta. Consiste en......

El consumo de cocaína produce cambios estructurales en el cerebro, reduciendo el volumen de determinadas regiones, y también funcionales, afectando a los procesos cognitivos y motivacionales, unos cambios que favorecen la adicción. Profundizar en el conocimiento de cómo se producen estos cambios......

El número 9 (Enero-Febrero-Marzo 2013) de la revista de divulgación científica Amazings (ISSN 2014-5047), editada en España, está ahora disponible en formato PDF para su descarga gratuita en la conocida plataforma de publicación Bubok:http://amazings.bubok.es/La revista Amazings ofrece... Fuente :...

Researchers have discovered that a burgeoning deer population forever alters the progression of a forest's natural future by creating environmental havoc in the soil and disrupting the soil's natural seed banks. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/c...

Not only are neuropathic pain symptoms quite common in knee osteoarthritis, but scientists can predict who will respond to treatment with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) by assessing the nervous system’s own capacity to regulate pain, new research suggests. Patients whose tests had...

Of nearly 1 million veterans who receive opioids to treat painful conditions, more than half continue to consume opioids chronically or beyond 90 days, new research says. A number of factors were associated with opioid discontinuation with the goal of understanding how abuse problems take hold in...

Most patients with multiple defects of the cytochrome P450 system, which is largely responsible for metabolizing opioids, naturally gravitated toward an opioid regimen primarily metabolized through the cytochrome P450 3A4 enzyme or a non-cytochrome, metabolic pathway, a new study suggests. Fuente :...

Two hormones credited with reducing pain and need for opioid analgesics when released naturally during pregnancy and childbirth worked similarly when administered simultaneously to patients with intractable pain, research shows. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/h...

El polonio-210 (210Po) se ha hecho popular por casos como la muerte del espía ruso Aleksandr Litvinenko, envenenado con este radionúclido altamente tóxico, y el del histórico líder palestino Yasser Arafat, que pudo correr la misma suerte.Este isótopo se presenta de forma natural en pequeñas......

El yacimiento paleontológico de La Roma 2, con una antigüedad de unos 9 millones de años y situado en Alfambra (Teruel, España), no deja de proporcionar sorpresas. Si hace unos pocos meses se presentaba el descubrimiento de Teruelictis, una nutria terrestre desconocida para la ciencia, ahora el......

Mientras el destino de Ucrania pende de un hilo, políticos de Estados Unidos, tanto del gobernante Partido Demócrata como del opositor Partido Republicano, se desesperan por sacar ventaja de la crisis. Los republicanos en el Congreso legislativo critican al presidente Barack Obama por su...

For the estimated 12.7 million people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, the third leading cause of death in the US, innovative research efforts in the field of tissue regeneration hold promise. In end-stage lung disease, transplantation is sometimes the only viable therapeutic option,...

A new class of antibiotics to fight bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and other drug-resistant bacteria that threaten public health has been discovered by a team of chemists. The new class, called oxadiazoles, was discovered in silico (by computer) screening and has shown...

Researchers have found that decision-making accuracy can be improved by postponing the onset of a decision by a mere fraction of a second. The results could further our understanding of neuropsychiatric conditions characterized by abnormalities in cognitive function and lead to new training...

Mexican scientists have increased survival rates for patients diagnosed with lunch cancer in metastatic stage (when the disease has spread to different parts of the body) from a rate of nine months of survival to 30 with personalized treatments. Tumor tissue samples were used to extract DNA in...

The procedure used at the National Cancer Institute in Mexico City improves up to 80% the metastatic stage. The National Cancer Institute (INCan) has progressed from a rate of nine months of survival to 30 with personalized treatments for patients diagnosed with lung cancer in metastatic stage,...

Mexican Institute shows that in the last 5 years the environmental phenomenon has not produced drastic transformations in the fishing activities. Fuente : http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=1...

The Innovation Convention 2014 will take place in Brussels on 10 and 11 March, 2014. It is an essential part of the Innovation Union flagship initiative, the European Union strategy which aims to create an innovation-friendly environment that makes it easier for great ideas to be turned into...

After searching hundreds of millions of objects across our sky, NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has turned up no evidence of the hypothesized celestial body in our solar system commonly dubbed "Planet X." Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/M...

Brussels, March 7, 2014: On the occasion of the 2014 Innovation Convention, the African European Radio Astronomy Platform (AERAP) will host a breakfast meeting on 11 March 2014, which will explore the options for supporting the contribution of venture capital to radio astronomy in Africa and...

En su conjunto, los Institutos Nacionales de Salud y los Hospitales Regionales y de Alta Especialidad son la entidad que más producción científica realiza en el país para el Sector Salud, según el Ranking de Producción Científica Mexicana 2011 del Foro Consultivo Científico y Tecnológico. Destaca...

La india Chintapakka Jambulamma, de 34 años, observa con admiración un secador solar, preciada posesión de la Sociedad Cooperativa de Mujeres Indígenas Advitalli, colectivo que lidera. Abre un cajón del aparato, extrae un puñado de kalmegh, una planta medicinal, y exclama: “¡Miren, se está secando...

“¿Quién hablará por ellos ahora? ¿Quién contará su historia a sus familias en Camerún o Costa de Marfil?”, se preguntó el nigeriano Edmund Okeke sobre los 16 inmigrantes muertos cuando trataban de alcanzar a nado la costa de la ciudad española de Ceuta desde Marruecos. Las víctimas fueron repelidas...

There's promising news from the front on efforts to produce fuels through artificial photosynthesis. A new study shows that nearly 90 percent of the electrons generated by a hybrid material designed to store solar energy in hydrogen are being stored in the target hydrogen molecules. Fuente :...

Changes to two previously unstudied genes are the centerpiece of a new theory regarding the cause and development of endometriosis, a chronic and painful disease affecting one in 10 women. The discovery suggests epigenetic modification, a process that enhances or disrupts how DNA is read, is an...

The majority of Latinas are unaware of their risk of diabetes, a new study finds, which points to the urgent need for alternate sites of opportunity for diabetes screenings. There is also a need for effective and culturally sensitive follow-up care and case management, the authors note. Latina...

New analyses of NASA airborne radar data collected in 2012 reveal the radar detected indications of a huge sinkhole before it collapsed and forced evacuations near Bayou Corne, La., that year. The findings suggest such radar data, if collected routinely from airborne systems or satellites, could at...

En buena parte del mundo árabe, la participación de las mujeres en la fuerza laboral es la más baja del planeta, según la ONU, y es raro encontrarlas en la política en Medio Oriente y el norte de África. Tal vez una de las pocas excepciones sea Argelia, dijo Lakshmi Puri, directora ejecutiva...