Menorca’s mysterious trepanned dead
A newly discovered cave conceals 3,300-year-old human remains with holes in their skulls
Catalonia: it’s all in the head
Nobel laureate Ramón y Cajal quashed the pseudoscientific theories fueling separatism in Catalonia
The veterinarian working to save man-eating animals
A Madrid-based doctor is fighting the common diseases that infect tigers and other endangered animals
The spectacular flowering of Chile’s Atacama Desert
Unusual winter rains lead to display involving more than 200 species of native plants
What is going on with Europe’s bees?
Existing data is either inconsistent or non-existent, say experts at interdisciplinary summit in Brussels
How Spain used “alternative facts” to bury environmental protest in 1888
Troops were sent in when miners demanded an end to open-air pyrite roasting at Riotinto copper mines
Film crew captures first-ever footage of wild Iberian wolves hunting
Scene just one of many stunning sequences in new Spanish nature documentary ‘Cantábrico’
Neanderthals had their own kind of ‘aspirin’
Dental records from Spanish cave suggest they chewed poplar bark, a source of salicylic acid
Finding a solution for supermarket tomatoes that don’t taste like tomatoes
Scientists in Valencia are using a technique to cut and paste DNA in a bid to reclaim fruit’s flavor
The ‘red’ scientist who was pardoned by Franco
Previously unseen material documents the extraordinary life of the physician Rafael Méndez
Spanish Ebola survivor recalls ordeal: “I felt Death leaning on my shoulder”
Nursing assistant Teresa Romero was the first case of transmission outside West Africa
Spain’s CJ-3: a cave as beautiful as it is deadly
Scientists are investigating why this well-known chasm has suddenly run out of oxygen
Spanish planet hunter and “gravity spy” from Argentina on Top 10 Scientists list
Nature magazine hails work done by Guillem Anglada-Escudé and Gabriela González in 2016
Held for fraud: Spanish parents of sick girl who raised €150,000
Police investigating claims money not used for rare disease treatments in US and Afghanistan
The Spanish scientists who are literally under fire
Who is behind the stray bullets hitting Madrid’s prestigious Institute for Mathematical Sciences?
The Spanish scientist working on a cure for a rare disfiguring disease
Biochemist Héctor Peinado has received €500,000 from the US government to study neurofibromatosis-1
Spanish Civil War mass grave yields preserved hearts and other organs
The organs of dozens of victims killed in 1936 on a hillside in Burgos by Franco's forces have been conserved
Spaniards abuse painkillers: EU survey
A survey of 22,000 Europeans revealed questionable use of prescription drugs
Saving the Spanish pigs that went to the Americas with Columbus
Many creole pig breeds, descendants from those that arrived in the New World in 1493, are in danger of extinction – and these scientists are analyzing their DNA to decide which to conserve
The danger hiding under Spain’s ‘killer lake’
Huge amounts of carbon dioxide are trapped under water in former mine in Huelva
Spanish Catholic Church loses its influence over naming customs
The birth register shows many fewer children named José, Jesús or after representations of the Virgin Mary
Could a modified common cold virus some day cure cancer?
Spanish scientists are tweaking adenoviruses to make them attack the most lethal tumors in children and adults
Einstein’s two surreal weeks in Spain
Physicist received a hero’s welcome in 1923, although few at the time understood why
Child sacrificed by Incas 500 years ago sheds light on Americans’ origins
DNA samples support thesis that humans first crossed the Bering Strait 15,000 years ago
The Basques: not quite as ancient as was once believed
Study of remains from Atapuerca site shows they are closer to 5,000 than 10,000 years old
The man who just added a second to Spaniards’ lives
Navy officer Francisco Javier Galindo is in charge of adjusting the universal time standard
The smoking toll in Spain: 166 men and 40 women die every day
Researchers want more proactive policies such as price hikes and more explicit warnings But so far they have seen little interest from the government of Mariano Rajoy