Manuel Ansede

The new variant has traversed the planet in a single month, stunning experts. But uncertainty remains over whether it is less serious for unvaccinated people and the immunocompromised

Experts warn that it is still to early to draw definitive conclusions about this new variant, but studies suggest it is not intrinsically less serious, and rather is able to reinfect people who already have good defenses

Barcelona’s Clínic Hospital announces hopeful results for people with multiple myeloma. Developed through the public system, the cost is lower than commercially available products

Preliminary studies indicate the new coronavirus strain is highly transmissible, even among the vaccinated, but can be controlled with booster shots and other measures

Detection of omicron variant in South Africa exposes the failures of global pandemic management, such as stockpiling by wealthy nations

These experiments are used to study ghostly particles that hold the secrets of the cosmos, but a new study suggests 70% of interactions are badly reconstructed

Health authorities warn that antibiotics are losing their effectiveness against disease and that humanity faces a future in which any minor infection could prove lethal

Police seize 49 taxidermy mounts and 132 ivory pieces from the luxury home of Marcial Gómez Sequeira, who was investigated after EL PAÍS ran a story in 2019

The Spanish geologist Raúl Pérez, together with two soldiers, collected samples from the so-called ‘war zone’ of the eruption, amid surging lava flows

Shots of the same area taken in 2020 and on Thursday of last week evidence how the lava flow is slowly swallowing up land and property on the Spanish island

The outbreak in California is the most closely researched of its kind so far during the pandemic. Analysis reveals the vulnerability of the classroom given the explosive spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus

The secretive Altos Labs, which is said to be backed by Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner, has recruited leading specialists to find ways of reprogramming cells and ultimately prolong human life

Biologist Manuel Talón has traced the origin of citrus fruits to the foothills of the Himalayas eight million years ago and mapped their evolution into modern edible varieties

Researchers note that the threshold at which hot weather kills keeps rising, and that people in low-income areas are at greater risk of dying

DeepMind, a company bought by Google, predicts with unprecedented precision the 3-D structure of nearly all the proteins made by the human body

The winner of a satirical award for pseudo-science managed to get two papers published in medical journals claiming that masks are dangerous for children and that vaccines kill nearly as many people as they save

She worked as a cleaner and a waitress to pay for college, and went on to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Frances Arnold wants young people to learn from every experience in life

While all experimental treatments have proven ineffective, science shows that the illness is not an inevitable tragedy of old age but a preventable disease in 40% of cases

Scientist Edith Heard heads the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. She talks to EL PAÍS about her unexpected academic path, women in science and the threat of a new pandemic

The medical treatment, which combines therapy and diagnostics, has given terminal prostate cancer patients a 35% increased survival time in trials

A study of Ancient Egyptian paintings and genetic analysis point to the Kordofan melon, a wild variety with a white flesh that is still grown in the region of Darfur

Spanish scientist Óscar Fernández Capetillo discovered a mechanism underlying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) following a casual talk with a US Nobel prize winner

Spanish research has provided insight into the Navier-Stokes equations governing the behavior of fluids

The principal health authorities stress that the essential requirement for avoiding coronavirus transmission is protection while indoors

The project is aimed at helping develop organs for transplantation, but it has drawn criticism over ethical concerns

EL PAÍS compares the likelihood of developing a blood clot from the Janssen and AstraZeneca injections with the probability of suffering a serious case of the disease, according to each demographic