Javier Salas

The neuroscientist studies how people fall into extremism and how the brain processes misinformation in polarized situations

Keir Starmer’s government demands responsibility from social media platforms after the riots sparked by the deaths of three young girls and has criticised Elon Musk, who permits disinformation on X

The vice president suffered similar attacks in 2020, when internet trolls focused on her gender, her skin color and her parents’ background

The story of a woman taken out of context years later to criticize feminism has gone viral following a chain of events that highlights the complexity of misinformation

The Intuitive Machines probe aims to become the first private device to land on the satellite next week

These deposits, which would be enough to fill the Red Sea, could be used by astronauts on exploration missions and to study the possible existence of life on the Red Planet

The tycoon’s descent into the pit of far-right hoaxes has been crystallized on social media. His identity crisis seems to have been marked by financial interests and personal issues

Widespread amazement at creative artificial intelligence has resulted in the fever of technocapitalism, which aims to monopolize profits and impose regulations that favor its interests over those of society

The dirt and rocks collected by the space agency’s OSIRIS-REx probe contain water and carbon, reinforcing the idea that these elements could have reached Earth in meteorites

In collaboration with NASA, the Guatemalan researcher from the University of Colorado sent ‘12,000 mutant yeasts’ around the satellite on the Orion spacecraft

The most conservative people tend to distrust scientists, believing that these experts threaten their own identity. They have been influenced by populist elites after decades of misinformation

The solar maximum appears to have moved forward, causing more eruptive phenomena on our star and placing terrestrial communication systems on alert

Up to 6% of the observations made with the ‘Hubble’ are being spoiled by the Starlink network, which will multiply tenfold its number of satellites in the sky with the deployment of mega-constellations

Experts explain why the tremors were so devastating and what local residents can expect in the coming weeks

With its peculiar optical illusion, this visitor from outer space can be better appreciated with binoculars or a telescope and away from light pollution

Authorities allowed a Long March-5B Y4 core stage to detach in a chaotic manner, triggering fears of dangerous falling debris hitting land

In his book ‘The Power of Words,’ the researcher reviews the science behind the extraordinary capacity of conversation and how to have a fruitful dialogue

The specialist in asteroids and comets has just published ‘The Earth in Danger’ in a bid to help us understand the risk of impact

A study demonstrates that some dogs are genetically predisposed to understand humans, but it is unclear whether a single determinant caused the evolutionary leap

New research shows the mammal can identify other group members through their sense of taste, as well as their signature whistle

The paleoanthropologist explains that one of our most useful weapons is empathy: ’There is little margin for individualism in this species’

A tendency to find patterns in random sequences, the brain’s need to connect cause and effect and a more intuitive thought process are some of the principle psychological mechanisms that explain belief in paranormal phenomena

The Canary Islands’ laboratories have spent a year without receiving a single mouse to study ailments like epilepsy or cancer. Scientists in the United States and Europe protest that the companies are “hurting public health” by blocking their research