Science

The US space agency is finalizing the launch of a new telescope to explore planets beyond the Solar System

Researchers from a Spanish laboratory observe, for the first time, the formation of compartments alongside the basic ingredients of organisms

Egyptian hieroglyphics were used 3,250 years before our era, but there is an even older precursor: the cuneiform writing of Mesopotamia

A study by the Jane Goodall Institute Spain and the University of Barcelona shows that chimpanzees remember the exact location of concealed ant hills

The Spanish scientist has begun her relentless training to become an extraterrestrial being. EL PAÍS accompanies her for a day in her new life

Soldiering through nightly suspended animation, a (nearly) all-sugar diet, backwards flight and long migrations, the birds’ tiny physiques prove mighty

It is the brightest point in a constellation first described 2,000 years ago and was the first distant star captured in a photo by scientists in the 19th century

Group theory allows us to study this game invented in 1974, which has more than 43 trillion valid states and can be completed in 20 moves

Social media addiction can reduce grey matter, shorten attention spans, weaken memory, and distort core cognitive functions, according to recent research

The scientist presents a new book in which he predicts drastic changes in Europe due to the lack of energy and materials

NASA’s probe will enter the star’s atmosphere on Christmas Eve, making the closest pass ever of the Sun’s surface, to try to unravel the mystery of why it is so much hotter than its surface

A new study in the journal ‘Nature’ suggests the brain plays a key role in this process

A ‘bubble girl’ from Córdoba is cured of the disease thanks to an innovative treatment rescued by an Italian foundation when it was about to disappear due to its low profitability

Over the 1.5 billion years of the Proterozoic Eon, a crucial innovation in terrestrial life unfolded — one without which we would not exist today

A new study challenges the idea that female breasts originated through sexual selection, suggesting that other factors, such as the number of estrogen receptors may play a role

A study with the James Webb Space Telescope led by astronomer Noemí Pinilla-Alonso clarifies the characteristics of the mysterious objects that arrive from beyond Neptune

A group of experts claims that a geological event has confused the age of the satellite, which could be up to 180 million years older than previously thought

The research highlights the advantages of psychostimulants over non-pharmacological therapies for a condition that receives more attention in childhood

A new study explores how the domesticated animals are able to rapidly associate words with pictures, but experts warn that this is not the same as linguistic understanding

Nile tilapia move to warmer waters when they become ill to mimic the effects of fever in warm-blooded animals

The University College of London scientist won the prestigious Blavatnik Award for young researchers after laying the groundwork for studying tumor development as an evolutionary process

The doctor, who holds degrees from Harvard Medical School, is confident in anti-aging treatments such as metformin or PARP1 inhibitors. But until these are approved, he practices intermittent fasting

These cetaceans migrate between equatorial waters and the Antarctic to feed, but this male moved from the eastern Pacific to the western Indian Ocean

Everything indicates the appointment will benefit SpaceX and that the project of taking humans to Mars will receive a notable boost

A new study details how, in the Gulf of California, a pod manages to carry out coordinated attacks against the largest fish in all the seas

Since Vera Cooper Rubin’s breakthrough in 1977, a wealth of evidence has been accumulated through astronomical observations at different scales, from galaxies and clusters to the cosmic microwave background radiation