The expedition to the center of La Palma volcano: ‘A vent opened up beneath our feet’
The Spanish geologist Raúl Pérez, together with two soldiers, collected samples from the so-called ‘war zone’ of the eruption, amid surging lava flows
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
The new research shows that this difference only began to emerge 2,500 years ago as a result of centuries of isolation
A team led by Argentine biochemist José Polo has succeeded in generating these models without sperm or eggs but what protection will be they afforded?
The scientific community has published 350,000 studies on Covid-19, but issues such as its origin or its unpredictable lethality still haven’t been cleared up
The German scientist (and lay pastor) who led the team that took the first image of a black hole believes that science is unable to answer the big questions in life
An investigation of more than 600 patients found that 25% of cases experienced alterations in the mucous membrane of their mouth
An exhibition in Madrid reveals little-known facets of the Nobel Prize winner Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who spun a science fiction tale of oppression by injection
Price and storage temperatures are among the various factors that set each of the three most promising candidates apart
A new report on the virus’ genome shows that there was no “patient zero,” and argues the impact of the pandemic would have been reduced with early restrictions on movement
The 19th-century naturalist Domingo Sánchez spent 13 years in the Philippines, sending back animal and human samples to build up museum collections and exhibitions