Blade Runner A scene from Blade Runner, an interesting glance at a not-so-distant future. In 1964, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) published, on the
Amy Xinyang Hong i Cedric Tan Common fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) limit their «harassment» to females when they compete with their brothers, helping them
On 5 November 2013, Mètode opened a call for artists with the 10 January 2014 as a deadline. The contest had a great level of participation
Jesús Ciscar Jorge Ballester (València, 1941), co-founder of Equipo Realidad, died this week. The artist illustrated Mètode’s last Annual Review. Ballester forged his artistic
Association Germaine TillionIn the photo, Germaine Tillion, who spent three years in the Aures mountain range in eastern Algeria, a region inhabited by the Amazigh peoples.
2013 draws to an end and we bid it farewell with a compilation of the top five articles on our website. Again this year, rsearchers and communicators
Mètode Alexander von Humboldt wandered for five years around inhospitable America looking for plants, animals, rocks, rivers, volcanoes and anything quenching his thirst for
Juan Olivares On the left, Juan Olivares. Journey to the Centre of the Earth I, 2013. On the right, Juan Olivares. Journey to the Centre of
NASA Europe goes through an age of no economic brilliance that translates, according to the main sociology and politology schools, into a lack of
MIT Technology Review Colour or shape-changing clothes, or clothes with purposes beyond aesthetics such as the detection of health risks. That is the future
Lucía Sapiña Researcher, PhD in Medicine, professor of Biochemistry at the University of Leicester, novelist, communicator, musician… One may ask how he gets the
Mètode Art always enjoyed an important place within the pages of Mètode Popular Science Journal, trying to knock down the barrier between humanism and
Alfredo Menéndez Muros Alfredo Menéndez-Navarro, Full Professor of History of Science at the University of Granada, carried out a research project about the risks of asbestos.
Lucía Sapiña An iguanodon, a cetiosaurus, pteranodons… the old prints decorating Juan Manuel Usera’s office would be a delight for any kid. He is
Anna Sanchis During last week, the Science and the Press seminar took place in the UIMP. It was organized by Mètode and involved several
Lucía SapiñaSusanna Priest at the Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia, which she visited after her conference. Science Communication editor and Professor of
Lucía Sapiña Hans Peter Peters, expert on scientific communication, during his conference. Despite being traditionally defined as «the two cultures», a term coined by
Anna Mateu Cancer is one of the illnesses that worry our society the most. On the occasion of the presentation of issue 77 of
© Anna Sanchis The relationship between science and the press is the main focus of the workshop Mètode is organising, which is to be
Cancer, despite the phenomenal medical advances achieved during the last decades, poses as one of the most feared illnesses today, which is why
Ricardo Campi Göran K. Hansson (Gothenburg, 1951) opens the doors to his office in the Nobel Forum, at the Swedish capital’s Karolinska Institutet, to
We have two recommendations for August, from the last reference published in «Mètode Monographs», Herbari. Viure amb les plantes, a compilation of ethnobotany texts about some
Our section «Mètode's Whys and Wherefores» has been one of the most dynamic in our website these last few months. A lot of readers are interested in the most everyday
Mètode «Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution». With this quotation from evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky starts the
