An international team of scientists has discovered that in the Cretaceous period, one hundred million years ago, ants They already had microscopic communication structures very similar to those of their descendants and current relatives. The study, carried out based on the analysis of three ants preserved in amber, demonstrates that these ants were sophisticated chemical […]
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Elephants identify each other with their own name within the herd.
‘The elephants they can remember’ –read one of the titles of the British writer Agatha Christie – and now we know that they also give each other names and respond to them when called by other members of the pack. This has been demonstrated by research carried out for four years in two elephant nature […]
Pedro Sánchez’s wife will testify before a Spanish court in corruption case
The judicial fence is tightening around the wife of the president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchezwho was summoned to testify at the beginning of July as being investigated in a case of alleged corruption and influence peddling. Since this investigation against Begoña Gómez was announced, the issue has become a nightmare for the socialist […]
Schizophrenia: Single-cell analysis sheds light on its intricate molecular biology
Scientists from several American research centers have carried out the largest single-cell analysis in the brains of people with schizophreniaachieving a map of how the geneswhich are known to increase the risk of suffering from this mental disorder severe, they affect specific cells of the brain. The journals Science, Science Translational Medicine and Science Advances […]
They discover that human body lice are powerful transmitters of the plague
A team of American researchers has discovered that lice that affect the body (other than those in the head) contribute more powerfully than previously thought to the transmission of bacterium cause of the plague. The finding, reported this Tuesday in the journal Plos Biology, has been carried out by researchers from the National Institute of […]
This is how the first modern humans in Tanzania made their tools
The National Center for Investigation on Human Evolution Spain (Cenieh) carried out the first lithic study of level VI-B from the Tanzanian site of Mumba, which brought to light how they made their tools the first modern humans in that area. This is a set that can be considered “Sanzano industry”, one of the first […]
New advances towards an effective vaccine against HIV thanks to a sequential strategy
Scientists have made several advances in the design of a class of vaccines against HIV that could offer extensive protection against virusaccording to four new research works in which different methods have been developed to obtain broad-spectrum neutralizing antibodies. The results of these still preliminary studies are published in the journals Science, Science Translational Medicine […]
When the first warm-blooded dinosaurs roamed the Earth
Scientists once thought that dinosaurs They were cold-blooded, lethargic creatures. Subsequent research suggested that some of them were capable of controlling their body temperature, but when and how this change occurred remained a mystery. Now, a new study estimates that the first warm-blooded dinosaurs were able to roam the face of the Earth about 180 […]
A study calls for preventing threats to cetaceans in the Mediterranean
A group of scientists from United Kingdom and Israel highlights in a study released this Tuesday the threats they face Whales and dolphins in it Mediterranean and calls for measures to protect these cetaceans. Experts from the environmental organization Greenpeace affiliated with the English university of Exeter and the Israeli university of Haifa carried out […]
It’s not science fiction: the solution to your health problem will come from space
Last March, while narrating the splashdown of some astronauts, a spokeswoman for POT mentioned that during the six months they spent in the International Space Station (ISS) They ran more than 200 medical experiments, a figure indicative of how promising the space is for finding life-saving answers. Health research in space began from the moment […]