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El astronauta Dale A. Gardner sujeta el cartel de "Se vende" en referencia a dos satélites recuperados. Crédito: NASA

25 May 2017

New Space: the New Kids on the Launchpad

Last February 27, SpaceX announced its intention to launch in 2018 a spacecraft that will travel around the Moon carrying two paying passengers. It will mark the first return of human [...]

23 May 2017

Light Bulbs with DNA and Fluorescent Properties: BioLEDs

Strictly speaking, the prefix “bio” means “life”. From a linguistic point of view, the aim of using this prefix in the name of many products is to suggest or connote the idea [...]

"Astrónomo Copérnico, conversacion con Dios" (1872), de Jan Matejko: Source: Jagiellonian University Museum.

19 May 2017

Copernicus, the revolutionary who feared changing the world

The sages had placed the Earth at the centre of the universe for nearly two thousand years until Copernicus arrived on the scene and let it spin like a top around the Sun, as we know [...]

18 May 2017

Bertrand Russell, the Mathematician Who Won the Nobel Prize for Literature

Bertrand Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) could be just a brilliant mathematician who won a Nobel Prize. But he is also a philosopher who, by his writings, won the award in the [...]

09 May 2017

Species Baptized with Honours

When a team of scientists discovers a new species—whether a fossil or a living specimen yet to be catalogued—a complex process is set in motion to name it. “There are many rules. [...]

05 May 2017

Fight Against Cancer with Artificial Intelligence and Big Data

From anywhere and with just a mobile phone, anyone can become an air traffic controller, or at least a virtual air traffic controller. One can follow the world traffic flow of airplanes [...]

05 May 2017

The Airship: a Truncated Past, a Promising Future?

When flames devoured the Hindenburg in less than a minute on May 6, 1937, it was not just an aircraft that was consumed by the fire, but also the promise of a bright future for a means [...]

03 May 2017

Millikan, the First Physicist to See the Electron

In 1923, the American physicist Robert Andrews Millikan (1868-1953) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, “for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric [...]

28 April 2017

The Electron Revolution

We celebrate the 120th anniversary of the discovery of the first subatomic particle: the electron, an achievement that the encyclopaedias attribute to the English physicist Joseph John [...]

27 April 2017

5 Dwellings for Living on Other Worlds

Earth’s natural resources are running low. According to the United Nations, if we continue at the current pace, our demand for water will be 40% higher than the supply by 2030. Against [...]

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