“Europe wastes 30% of food, it is an ethical scandal”
Bernhard Url, head of the European Food Safety Authority, discusses Europeans' concerns about chemicals and pesticides, the obesity epidemic, organic agriculture and sustainable food production
The chilling extinction of Spain’s last glacier
The frozen expanse of Monte Perdido is receding at an alarming rate and could disappear within three decades
Woman’s cancer recovery brings fresh hope of medical breakthrough
After US success, Spanish researchers will conduct similar trials to test new immunotherapy method
Astronaut minister: “We still have time to put Spain at the forefront of science”
Pedro Duque, at the helm of science, innovation and universities in the new Socialist government, has promised to get rid of the bureaucratic barriers to scientific research
Spain’s biggest renewable energy center languishing under fund freeze
Despite big budget, restrictions have triggered firings and shutdowns at the state-of-the-art Almería Solar Platform
Where to see the solar eclipse in Spain
The astronomic event of the year can be partially observed from the mainland and the Canaries
Meet the woman looking for aliens under your feet
Penelope Boston has studied some of the most spectacular caves on Earth in her search for microbial life
Squat of the Antarctic
Thirty years ago, Jaroslav Pavlicek built the only private base on the frozen continent. But now it could be demolished over safety fears
1,800-year-old Roman shipwreck found off Spain’s Balearic Islands
The vessel, thought to have been carrying fermented fish sauce, sank off Cabrera
Spanish-led study could help save Earth from meteorite impacts
Investigators believe results of analysis may help design future asteroid deflection missions
Catalan astronomer discovers habitable planet close to our Solar System
Proxima Centauri b is the nearest exoplanet to Earth and may be covered with water
Abortion requests on the rise in South America amid Zika fears
The number of women seeking terminations has doubled in Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela, says new study
Lack of government threatens Spain’s role in Europe’s future energy strategy
Can politicians prepare the country’s bid to host an EU test facility for nuclear fusion in time?
A Mars landing ‘made in Spain’
A Spanish-designed shock absorber and heat shield will be key to a European mission to the Red Planet
Spanish research team publishes blood cancer breakthrough
University of Oviedo scientists identify protein imbalance that leads to leukemia
Stephen Hawking: “I have learned not to look too far ahead, but to concentrate on the present”
The physicist and author has died aged 76. Read here an exclusive interview he granted to EL PAÍS in 2015
Stephen Hawking: “My disability has been a help in a way”
EL PAÍS to publish exclusive interview with the renowned British physicist
Spain chosen as site of planet’s largest gamma ray telescope
San Roque Observatory in the Canary Islands wins vote to host Cherenkov Telescope Array
Neanderthals divided tasks by gender, Spanish research study reveals
Dental evidence points to fact that males and females performed different jobs
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