The Beijing-controlled megacity is courting international researchers with astronomical salaries and cutting-edge equipment. After its success story with trade and capital flows, it now wants to do the same with science and tech
Scientists have managed to rescue the molecule, against all odds, from a calf that died after being attacked by cave lions
The aerospace engineer is the mission director for Ispace. ‘The idea is that by 2040 there will be about a thousand people living permanently on the Moon, and around 40,000 tourists a year’
The Nobel Prize winner in Medicine is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage, and the possibility of extracting the genome of the Flores hobbit
A team of scientists describes how malignant cells use ‘highways’ of hardened tissue to spread to other organs, and how blocking two proteins can stop them
The US space agency has announced a new schedule for Artemis 2 that will lay the groundwork for the first human landing since 1972
A study analyzes biosignatures in samples that would need to be brought back to Earth for confirmation, a mission Donald Trump wants to cancel
Veteran scientists warn EL PAÍS of the dismantling of America’s scientific strength and the risk posed to democracy: ‘It could take decades to recover’
Data from NASA’s Insight mission suggest that the red planet is much more similar to Earth than previously thought
Extensive research explores whether microbes may have contributed to the extinction of these animals
The former vice president of MIT warns of the ‘devastating’ consequences of Donald Trump’s policies on the world of science
The prestigious research journal cites a change of standards to dismiss a NASA study that claimed to have discovered a bacterium that thrives on arsenic
Experts on freedom of expression and information have launched a campaign to denounce the climate of retaliation and self-censorship that has emerged during the Trump era
The recently approved Big Beautiful Bill includes billions of dollars in spending in a concession to Republican representatives from states closely linked to the manned space exploration program
A study analyzes the enormous impact of earthquakes on the Mediterranean city, where the population has multiplied sixfold
DNA and protein analysis of a 146,000-year-old skull shows for the first time what the face of this species, which occupied much of Asia and left its genes in modern humans, was like
An experiment in mice has discovered that a mother’s iron deficiency alters sex determination. Until now, it was believed that only genetics defined this biological trait
The largest study of ancient and modern samples reveals a variant of the disease that evolved over millennia on the continent
New targeted therapies allow for the treatment of a disease that is already the fifth leading cause of fatal tumors globally
Biologist and physician Ana María Cuervo and paleoanthropologist Juan Luis Arsuaga reflect on whether age-related decline can be halted or even reversed
Astronomers in the United States and Spain have detected crystalline ice on a Sun-like star in its infancy
Dozens of research projects on cancer, HIV and human genetics are in limbo due to the new regulations imposed by the White House
The physicist, one of the women who has spent the most time outside a spacecraft, discusses NASA, new technology, and what it feels like to walk in space
The American Astronomical Society warns that the proposed cuts would have ‘catastrophic’ consequences for the United States’ leadership in space exploration
Research cuts are threatening the country’s global dominance and herald a world with fewer drugs and more preventable deaths
Colossal has announced the birth of three genetically modified wolves, the first in history and gestated by dogs, to mimic the extinct species
DNA explains the enigma of the culture that painted swimmers and hippos in the middle of the desert thousands of years ago