In this text we examine the degree of acceptance of these beliefs in high-school science teachers-in-training, among which significant levels of acceptance of pseudoscience have been detected.

Human palaeontology in Spain has experienced extraordinary growth in recent decades. In this work we investigate the influence that the book La evolución (1966) and its editors, Miquel Crusafont, Bermudo Meléndez, and Emiliano Aguirre, exerted on this explosion.

The life and work of the Prussian geographer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt continues to fascinate, even today. This is partly because his figure concentrates and synthesises the movements, ideas, and even the great contradictions of the time of profound change that was nineteenth-century Europe

How do decision-making processes affect brain activity? What role do emotions play on finances?

The general model for evaluating scientific production fits into the accountability system: a way of measuring scientific output which does not usually acknowledge the presence of gender imbalances in academic

Emili Laguna The expected effects of global environmental change over the coming decades may worsen the situation for many currently endangered Valencian plants, even

Valentín Rodríguez GM crops and their controversy are very important in the field of environmental journalism. On the left, rice paddy in La Albufera de Valencia

Pepa Granados Due to its many sources and to the fact that it involves researchers and individuals who preserve popular knowledge, ethnobotany plays an important role in

Tony Hisgett Some animal species are extreme k-strategists; i.e. they invest enormously in very few offspring rather than very little on an enormous number of descendants.

Denis Zamaro ABSTRACTIdentifying markers of psychobiological predisposition to violence opens the door to prevention and intervention in the field of male violence against women. Currently,

[caption id="attachment_14781" align="alignleft" width="200"] Guildhall Art Gallery (Londres)John Everett Millais. The Woodsman's Daughter, 1850-51. Oil on canvas, 64,7 x 88,9 cm. The author describes a countryside scene with a boy offering strawberries,

Johan Larson Professional science writers will have to accept that their work may no longer involve creating content but rather advising other writers, or creating their

ABSTRACT In the early sixteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci compared the ocean currents with the blood flow of a human body. Now we have enough information to explore the idea that

«Detailed evidence shows that Nietzsche passed through each of the three stages: the chancre of primary syphilis; the terrible pox, fever and pain of secondary syphilis; and the dreaded third,

■ The smarter we get, the dumber we become The definition of intelligence is certainly flimsy, in fact there are different types

Human uniqueness Most cosmological views on human origins portray these as being divine, beyond the natural world. This has partly been influenced by our obvious uniqueness. Because, of all past human

© V. Rodríguez   Pressure grew by the minute and, although he was the son of God the Father, each of the curved and sharp

The pomegranate tree appears to be native from the shores of the Caspian Sea, the plains in Iran and the mountains in Kurdistan and Afganistan, where it grows wild in