La horticultura está floreciendo en el central Cuscatlán, el departamento más pequeño del diminuto El Salvador, de la mano de un programa nacional para promover la agricultura familiar y sacar de la pobreza a cientos de miles de personas. En su terreno de una hectárea y media, cuatro hermanos de la...

Physicists have come up with a new synthetic material for optical data storage. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/a...

Within the health care industry and beyond, daily exposure to stress can lead to negative consequences for employees both on and off the job – from apathy and burnout to physical illness or mental impairments. New research suggests the implementation of a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)...

Investigadores del Departamento de Tecnología Electrónica de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) han desarrollado un dispositivo para evaluar la capacidad olfativa. Esta herramienta se ha testado en máquinas de resonancia magnética funcional (fMRI) y los nuevos estudios los están probando con...

The bark of the Amur cork tree has traveled a centuries-long road with the healing arts. Now it is being put through its paces by science in the fight against pancreatic cancer, with the potential to make inroads against several more. Researchers were already exploring the cork tree extract's...

Fire researchers have shown that sparks from a burning house can be prevented from spreading if the loft is fitted with an extinguishing system based on water-mist, i.e. tiny water droplets that turn into steam. Shortly after the catastrophic fire in Lærdal in Western Norway, which destroyed 40...

While it may be easy to put workplace harassment down to personality conflicts, in reality workplace harassment is most often a product of the workplace itself, not the people in it. More research needs to be done into the role organizations play in workplace harassment, in order to address a...

We all know Usain Bolt is one of the fastest people on Earth. Now, students have shown his superhuman speeds would actually allow him to fly like a bird on one of Saturn’s moons while wearing a wingsuit. The world-record holding sprinter has reached top speeds of 12.27 meters per second, which...

The reintroduction of mountain lions across the mid-western United States has made species management an urgent area of research for conservationists. A new report explores the fatal cost of human interaction with cougars and asks what state agencies can do to protect both species. Fuente :...

Politicians know that turning on the tears can be a vote winner, but how does the political manipulation of our emotions actually work? Researchers explore how emotions such as anxiety, even if their cause has nothing to do with politics, can result in a hardening of our views. Fuente :...

The open air plays of the ancient Greeks may offer us a valuable insight into the Mediterranean climate of the time, reports new research. Using historical observations from artwork and plays, scientists identified 'halcyon days', of theater friendly weather in mid-winter. Fuente :...

Rotary-wing aircraft, such as Apache and Chinook helicopters, play vital combat and logistical roles across the U.S. military services, but new research reveals how vulnerable these aircraft are to wildlife strikes. Many types of aircraft are vulnerable to strikes, estimated to cost the aviation industry $1.2 billion worldwide...

La vacuna MVA-CHIKV protege completamente contra el virus de la artritis epidémica chikungunya, que desde 2004 ha infectado a millones de personas en África y Asia. Este virus causa fiebre alta, fuertes dolores articulares, desórdenes cerebrales y trastornos neuronales. Fuente :...

Investigadores del Instituto de Ciencias Fotónicas (ICFO) han conseguido por primera vez capturar y desplazar un nanoobjeto en las tres dimensiones del espacio mediante pinzas ópticas de tamaño nanométrico. El avance podría revolucionar el campo de la nanociencia, según los autores. Fuente :...

El equipo de Joan Massagué ha dado un paso clave en el estudio de las metástasis en el cáncer. Hablamos con el investigador catalán, que ha publicado los resultados en la revista Cell, para comprender el alcance del logro de su equipo. Fuente : http://www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/Massague-Nadie-...

Estas algodonosas nubes retratadas por el observatorio espacial Herschel de la ESA forman parte de la región de formación de estrellas NGC 7538. Es una de las pocas ‘guarderías’ de estrellas masivas que se encuentran relativamente cerca de nuestro planeta, a unos 9.000 años luz, lo... Fuente :...

The research group of Professor Jairo Sinova at the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), in collaboration with researchers from Prague, Cambridge, and Nottingham, have predicted and discovered a new physical phenomenon that allows to manipulate the state of a magnet by electric signals. Current...

Durante el solsticio de invierno, el sol se filtra en el Monasterio de Petra, en Jordania, iluminando el pódium de una deidad. Justo en ese momento, la silueta de la montaña de enfrente dibuja la cabeza de un león, un animal sagrado. Son ejemplos de un estudio donde investigadores del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias y el...

Are mathematical beauty and mathematical explanation are related in any way? This question is posed to philosophers, mathematicians and mathematics educators from across the globe when they meet at Umeå University in Sweden during 10 to 12 March. Fuente : http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=1...

Sri Lanka va rumbo a una gran crisis por el calor extremo y la falta de lluvias que padece. Se teme que haya cortes de energía y de agua, debido a la rápida disminución de las reservas hídricas. Este mes, la Junta de Electricidad de Ceilán (antiguo nombre de Sri Lanka) informó que dependía de...

Increasing the intake of fatty fish increases the number of large HDL particles, according to a recent study completed at the University of Eastern Finland. People who increased their intake of fish to a minimum of 3-4 weekly meals had more large HDL particles in their blood than people who are...

A team of researchers from National University of Singapore (NUS) have created the first two-photon, small molecule fluorogenic probe that can serve as a useful tool for the rapid assessment of an individual’s potential risk for Parkinson’s disease. The highly sensitive fluorescence probe can...

Cheap items like crates and buckets encourage children to be more active and creative than expensive play equipment, researchers have found. The findings are the result of a long-term study by RMIT University researchers in Melbourne, Australia, into the play differences of primary school children...

There have been great expectations regarding the production of a drug to block the enzyme LTA4 hydrolase, which plays a key role in the body's inflammatory response. However, in clinical trials, such molecules have proven to be only moderately effective. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet...

Elephants, rhinoceroses and aurochs once roamed around freely in the forests of Europe, while hippopotamuses lived in rivers such as the Thames and the Rhine. New research shows how we can use knowledge about the past to restore a varied landscape with a high level of biodiversity. Fuente :...

A new study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Illinois at Chicago finds that Medicare Part D prescription coverage significantly reduced hospital admissions and program expenditures totaling $1.5 billion annually. Fuente :...

In strontium titanate, a stable two-dimensional electron gas was created, in a thin layer just below the surface. The electrons in this gas can occupy very different quantum states with very different properties. This new material is a remarkable new instrument for designing electronics and possibly using exotic material...

Women of different social or professional 'ranks' cooperate less well with each other than men do, according to a new Harvard study. With those they see as equals, the study found no difference between the sexes. Cooperation among women was as frequent as cooperation among men. Fuente :...

Veterans exposed to explosions who do not report symptoms of traumatic brain injury (TBI) may still have damage to the brain's white matter comparable to veterans with TBI, according to researchers at Duke Medicine and the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-03/dum...