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
Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date for the existence of a rocky planet atmosphere outside our Solar System. París, May 08, 2024.- Renyu HuContinuar Leyendo
Daniel Charlebois and an early-career international research team have been granted US$1.2 million from the Human Frontiers Science Program to seek to answer the question “How predictable is evolution?” Charlebois, along with Michael Manhart from Rutgers University and Meike Wortel from the University of Amsterdam, will examine the development ofContinuar Leyendo
Ythaca, May 06, 2024.- Applying a pretreatment of a parathyroid hormone, commonly used to increase bone mass to combat osteoporosis, can help improve cartilage health and slow the development of osteoarthritis, Cornell researchers have found. The team, led by Marjolein van der Meulen, the James M. and Marsha McCormick DirectorContinuar Leyendo
