21 April 2018
How does space affect the human body?
Until now, government agencies have held the monopoly on space travel. But with the entry of private industry into the sector, space tourism is about to take off. Orbiting the Earth, [...]
Science
19 April 2018
Magic Squares: When Art is Squared With Mathematics
Magic squares are one of the most fascinating mathematical artifices, and also one of the most reflected in art, from Dürer’s engravings to Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia. This is something [...]
12 April 2018
Yuri Gagarin and the Day we Went into Space
When the former Soviet Union sent the first human being into space, it already had a clear advantage over the US in the space race. In 1957 it had successfully put into orbit the first [...]
06 April 2018
The (Other) States of Matter: Much More than Just Solid, Liquid and Gas
For many centuries, it was considered that there were only three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas (the three that are present and stable in our world). And water is the substance [...]
01 April 2018
The Rorschach Test: Science or Pseudoscience?
On 2 April 1922, a 37-year-old Swiss psychiatrist died on the operating table due to peritonitis. Only nine months earlier, he had published his book Psychodiagnostik, which had barely [...]
30 March 2018
CRISPR, the Genetic Revolution of the 21st Century
Who would have imagined that the new genetic revolution of the 21st century would be born in a pond designed to harvest salt from seawater? In the salt flats of Santa Pola (Spain), the [...]
29 March 2018
Return to Mercury
At about 92 million kilometres from Earth, the smallest planet in the solar system is expecting company. Three years after the MESSENGER spacecraft finished its mission orbiting Mercury [...]
24 March 2018
Houdini, the Hunter of Fake Ghosts
When we think of Harry Houdini, what inevitably comes to mind is the image of an athletic man in underclothes, loaded down with chains and escaping from the most unlikely of prisons: [...]
22 March 2018
The End of Tuberculosis?
Since 1990, mortality from tuberculosis has been reduced by almost half, but about two million people still die from it every year. Although it can be cured with antibiotics, patients [...]
19 March 2018
Food and Water for the Future: Recycling Human Waste
According to data from the World Bank, in 2050 we will need to produce at least 50% more food than today to feed a world population of 9 billion, which will be even more difficult considering [...]
