Traces of an ancient road in a lake
Eight hundred years of settlement history with land reforms, epidemics and repeated wars are preserved in the sediments of Lake Czechowskie in Poland. The key role was played by the so-called Margrave's Road, the...
Scientists search for coronavirus-resistant people: could it be you?
An international team of researchers is looking for people with possible resistance to the coronavirus to study their genes. Given the severity of the pandemic we are still going through, it sounds like a...
NASA’s Lucy time capsule carries a message for the future
The Lucy mission has been on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids for two days. Over the next eleven and a half years it will visit up to eight different asteroids. Seven of them...
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule blasts off with amateur crew and no astronauts
Elon Musk and SpaceX have achieved a new milestone: the Inspiration4 mission is now in orbit around the Earth. The first mission to carry an all-civilian crew, with no professional astronauts on board, is...
The 2021 Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded
For yet another year, and this is the 31st edition, we already have the winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes. You know, the ones that reward research with hilarious but no less true titles...
What is the CRISPR technique and what are its applications?
Genetics is the science that deals with the study of genes, as well as DNA and RNA molecules. This field has made significant advances in recent years, developing tools that allow the modification of...
The strange behaviour of killer whales in southern Spain that intrigues researchers
A Spanish Maritime Rescue service boat had to come to the rescue of a sailing vessel on 9 August that had reported an incident with a killer whale 11 miles south of the Spanish...
Ingenuity has now flown 12 flights and continues to amaze the world and NASA,...
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has successfully completed its 12th flight on Mars. It's quick to say, but the milestone is astonishing even for the space agency, which in fact expected at most three flights with...
New record in the calculation of pi: 62 trillion decimal places
We have a new record for calculating decimals of pi: 62 trillion decimals. According to the DAViS department of the FHGR (Grisons University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland), it beats the previous world record, which...
July was officially the hottest month on record on Earth for the last 142...
It has happened again, we have once again broken the record for the hottest month on record on the planet. Last July the planet recorded the highest average temperature on record, the highest in...
