From the moment life appeared on Earth, the natural genetic code of all living beings is based on a sequence of four ‘letters’: G, T, C, and A. these molecules form two sets of base pairs, G with C and…
From children we are taught that the continents of the Earth are America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, Asia and Antarctica. There is no single, established or official way of defining how many and which are the continents of the world. For…
More than 80 years after it was predicted, physicists have created metallic hydrogen, a mysterious form of hydrogens that is able to super conduct electricity without resistance at an ambient temperature. Scientists were already suspecting that hydrogen could exist as…
For months it has been speculated that researchers may have finally created crystals of time – strange crystals that have an atomic structure that is repeated not only in space but over time, putting them in perpetual motion without energy.…
An event at the speed of light, to be recorded in detail, requires an even faster camera. And a new technology has allowed to capture for the first time in video the cone of a sonic boom of a beam…
A team of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Spain has developed a biosensor that can detect HIV-1 during the first week after infection. The experiments, performed with human serum, detect the p24 antigen, a protein present in…