Astronomers, maybe more than anyone, appreciate what an island of perfection our Earth is. Our orbit may put us at a perfect distance from the sun for life to flourish, but it is too small to easily help astronomers determine how big the universe is. Washington DC, June 17, 2024.-Continuar Leyendo
Architecture and Engineering firm, IDOM, completes successful final design review for one of the largest mechanized smart buildings in the world Pasadena, CA, June 15, 2024.- The Giant Magellan Telescope and IDOM today announced that the telescope’s enclosure, set to be one of the world’s largest astronomical facilities, passed itsContinuar Leyendo
Gender equality and valuing diversity in the workplace are the key to a just future for our societies: This is the main message of G-VERSITY, a four-year European research project led by the University of Bern. The network presented solutions to achieve this objective at its final conference. Bern, JuneContinuar Leyendo
La Dra. Fernanda Claverías de la USM es la encargada de caracterizar este nuevo grupo bacteriano que se extrae directamente de la playa Las Torpederas en Valparaíso. Su biodiversidad no se ha registrado en ningún otro lugar del mundo. Valparaíso, 14 de Junio de 2024.- Fernanda Claverías, ingeniera Civil AmbientalContinuar Leyendo
A new USC study provides clear evidence that the Earth’s inner core began to decrease its speed around 2010. Los Angeles, June 13, 2024.- USC scientists have proven that the Earth’s inner core is backtracking — slowing down — in relation to the planet’s surface, as shown in new researchContinuar Leyendo
Se trata de la Ocratoxina, la cual puede estar presente en distintos productos, y que, en altas dosis, puede causar desde malformaciones en un feto hasta cáncer. Valparaíso, 03 de Junio de 2024.- ¿Conoce la Ocratoxina? Su nombre puede resultar extraño, pero su presencia es más común de lo que ustedContinuar Leyendo
A large-scale interdisciplinary research project on sleep at the University of Bern came to an end this year. The findings of this project will benefit the population through various programs and will be pursued further thanks to numerous grants. Bern, May 29, 2024.- It is still unclear why we spendContinuar Leyendo
Data collected using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, combined with earlier observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, show surprisingly little methane (CH4) in the atmosphere of WASP-107 b, indicating that the interior of the planet must be significantly hotter and the core much more massive than previously estimated.Continuar Leyendo
An international team of astronomers have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to find evidence for an ongoing merger of two galaxies and their massive black holes when the Universe was only 740 million years old. This marks the most distant detection of a black hole merger ever obtainedContinuar Leyendo
A new interdisciplinary study led by molecular biologist Florian Raible from the Max Perutz Labs at the University of Vienna provides exciting insights into the bristles of the marine annelid worm Platynereis dumerilii. Specialized cells, so-called chaetoblasts, control the formation of the bristles. Their mode of operation is astonishingly similarContinuar Leyendo
