Eleven authors published an article in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet suggesting an apparent link between the MMR vaccine and the onset of autism. This news bomb led to the Wakefield scandal.
Sometimes the merits of some of the films that have won Best Picture at the Oscars are not easy to understand, as happened to the author in 2022 with Everything everywhere all at once.
The violent crimes committed by ordinary people are, in most cases, the result of the so-called affective aggression.
Jerónimo Muñoz, a 16th-century Valencian astronomer, made important observations of the supernova that exploded in 1572, as well as eclipses, stars, and extremely precise maps.
For the author, the study of sex is much broader and more interesting than we imagine, from the endocrine and physiological side, but also from psychology and sociology.
Absinthe is a distillate of different herbs, most notably Artemisia absinthium (wormwood), which contains several highly toxic molecules and some with hallucinogenic effects.
The discovery of the double helix was the work of four people, and Rosalind Franklin's contribution is on a par with that of Wilkins, Watson, and Crick.
Dare to take on the new challenge proposed by Chantal Ferrer for «Free fall», related to gravity and our perception of weight.
Eye contact can be used to establish and strengthen emotional bonds, but depending on the socio-cultural context, looking directly into another person's eyes can be very intimidating.
In Memento, Christopher Nolan used the same solution as nature did when it came to duplicating DNA millions of years before: he told Leonard's story cutting it in ten-minutes sections.
The same will happen with fossil fuels as with the Decauville trains, which were scrapped when automobiles and roads appeared.
Since the late 1920s, a number of HIV vaccine strategies have been discarded, but research continues with phase I vaccine prototypes.
There is a great diversity of organisms that have adapted to live among us. Not only arthropods, but also vertebrates such as geckos, bats, owls and, in some highly urbanised countries, even foxes, deer, and bears.
The covid-19 pandemic has altered the infection routines of other respiratory diseases and, in some cases, has made us more vulnerable. The ancestral method of immunisation in pre-vaccination times was, precisely, infection.
We share blood groups A, B and O with other hominids, but only blood groups A and O with chimpanzees and group B with gorillas.
Humans are born rather undeveloped, compared to other species, which favours a better understanding of language and behaviour in society.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed them as «endangered». In particular, the West African subspecies – the one pictured here – is listed as «critically endangered».
For a long time, some scientists have believed that a person's physical attributes can provide information about their psychology or character.
The process that takes place when we cook on a barbecue is very similar to the one that occurs in our organism when we eat and digest food.
Dead Vlei is a natural treasure capable of thrilling any nature lover. Located in Namibia’s Namib-Naukluft National Park, it is guarded by some of the largest dunes on the planet.
Much of the plastic debris fractures into micro- or nanoparticles called microplastics that can be ingested by marine organisms.
The next time you find yourself near a barbecue, try to pay attention to what you see. It is a fascinating scientific process.
We could say that being human implies having a brain with human consciousness, but this definition has no discrete and precise boundaries.