Miguel Ángel Criado

Desert agriculture has increased in certain areas despite advancing drought in arid lands

The ape covered his face with chewed leaves that contain berberine, an extract that is available in pharmacies

A group of scientists finds the oldest signal of the planet’s magnetic field in the the Isua Greenstone Belt in Greenland

Groundwater extraction and heavy skyscrapers are key factors in an accelerating trend

Thousands of hours of observation of communities of both species debunk the former’s peaceful image: males are three times more aggressive than the latter

The first examples of ‘incaprettamento’ appear in cave paintings in southern Italy dated to the European Mesolithic period

The compilation of millions of documents shows that agriculture had lost its hegemony to manufacturing long before the advent of the steam engine

Chimpanzee and gorilla habitats are located close to operational and preoperational mining areas for materials that are essential for key technologies and the green energy transition

The alteration could affect timekeeping and, ultimately, counteract today’s need to add a leap second to the year every so often

The main mechanisms of conservation are known, but there are thousands of pieces that have been preserved for millennia without any knowledge of how it happened

A study with mice and post-mortem human tissues shows how generalized fear can occur even in the absence of objective threats

Some female odontocetes extend their lives to bring up their grandchildren

These types of mutations follow Mendelian patterns of inheritance. For the animal to be born brown-white, both its parents must carry the mutation, even if they are black-and-white

Experiments on mice and human cells uncover a previously unknown element that impacts tactile sensation

Scientists now know when the great engine of global ocean circulation completed its loop, contradicting the theory that the current is responsible for the glaciation of Antarctica

An analysis of the animal’s larynx reveals how they adapted to communicate underwater and their physical limits producing sound

Genetic analysis of thousands of ancient DNA samples has found four cases of rare chromosomal mutations in sites in Navarra

A study with groups of bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas shows that they share humans’ capacity for levity

An invasive species of the insects caused a chain reaction in the savanna that left the big cats unable to hunt zebras

Children born now will meet most of their great-grandparents but won’t have many siblings or cousins and most women will die alone

Certain bacteria may play a role in improving mental skills such as language expression and gross motor skills

The discovery was made in Oklahoma and shows how one of the first land animals, who lived 290 million years ago, had scales like lizards

Researchers have been able to study tumors in these 3D models measuring the size of a grain of rice, which had previously been obtained using isolated embryonic or stem cells

Cyanobacteria from almost two billion years ago had an organelle present in the photosynthesis of modern-day algae and plants

An experiment shows that humans’ closest evolutionary relatives also have strong social memories

Early Neolithic northerners were already taller than Mediterranean people, but the disparity between women and men was greater, which suggests that they gave preferential treatment to men

The impact of a solar eruption in 1872 disabled the telegraph service and for many was a divine herald of the end of the world