The Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for illuminating the hole in the ozone layer, proposed in 2000 that the planet had entered a new era, caused by the brutal impact of human beings. An international team of specialists, the Anthropocene Working Group, has analyzed the scientific facts since 2009 … Read more
All over the world, women are a minority in science institutes. The reason for this has deep roots in the structure of the society in which we live and, although different initiatives are proposed to change it, none seem to achieve the expected effect. One of the causes of this phenomenon, which has been minimized, … Read more
They didn’t know what they had. The caretakers of a family museum in Verona (Italy) believed that the strange object was fake. But a historian from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), Federica Gigante, knew what it was as soon as she saw it in an image uploaded to the internet. As soon as she … Read more
Landing on the Moon again after having done so more than half a century ago is costing a lot. Of the last six attempts, only one – the Indian probe Chandrayaan 3 – was successful. The others, for one reason or another, have not been classified as such. But has the experience really been so … Read more
The skin is the largest organ in the human body. A man’s can occupy two square meters, weigh up to five kilograms and be as thick as a centimeter, on the soles of the feet, or as thin as 0.5 millimeters, in the testicular sacs. It is the interface with which humans relate to the … Read more
Odysseus turns off. The long night reaches the lunar south pole and the space module launched by the private company Intuitive Machines runs out of power. Hate, As the company’s employees have named it, it has been the first American arrival on the Moon since the end of the Apollo program in 1972. In addition, … Read more
The tail has been a very useful tool since the first animals appeared, more than 500 million years ago. Fish have used it to propel themselves through the water, dinosaurs balanced with them and scorpions use them as a weapon. Closer to our species, 25 million years ago, ancestral primates used them as another limb, … Read more
The return of the United States to the Moon half a century after the Apollo program has been accompanied by a setback. The Odysseus lander fell while landing on the Moon and came to rest on its side. While that didn’t render him completely useless, it has limited his mission. The company Intuitive Machines, which … Read more